Tag Archives: Outreach
Real Science on Fake Mars
Ok, this is super cute and made my day today. We’ve been doing these “Real Science on Fake Mars” science projects with elementary school kids in Clark County School District in Nevada. My first post about it was way back … Continue reading
It’s the Final Countdown!
Three weeks left, and I need to start sending you more updates, because a lot is going on. When Joce put up her “final countdown” post on her blog, I knew it was ok to start sharing the exciting news. … Continue reading
Less Than 6 Weeks To Go, and an Article in German
Hello all! It’s been a while. We had a news article come out in German, so in case you can read German here it is: http://www.dw.de/eine-reise-zum-mars-auf-hawaii/a-18393741 We’ve been busy here finishing up all the research that we want to get … Continue reading
Live Like You’re On Mars* For Earth Day
Our Earth Day video has now gone live in Washington D.C. You can check it out through their events at this site: http://www.earthday.org/blog/2015/04/21/earth-day-tell-your-story At the end of the video, the crew challenges you to live like you’re on Mars* for … Continue reading
Earth Day on Mars*
Earth Day is a melding of my two favourite things: environmental sustainability, and space science. Our crew was asked to take part in the Earth Day celebrations happening in D.C. this year, and we are excited to be a part … Continue reading
Hab Tour
Finally have a video introducing the Dome sweet Dome. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/ZOyI9EKLnSk
Water Filtration Outreach Project
We worked with some kids in Nevada on a water filtration project, to try and clean up our used dishwater so it can be used again. They sent us a video of one of their solutions that worked for them, … Continue reading
Water Recycling on Mars
We started up 6 major outreach projects with a number of schools in the Clark County School District in Nevada, as you recall, and one of them was a water recycling project. I think that was the one with the … Continue reading
Staying Fit on Mars
One of the surprising highlights of the mission has been our group workouts. I was really worried about losing my fitness while here – we have a treadmill, but it’s really noisy, and I feel awkward about using it when … Continue reading
AstroNuts Outreach
We had some questions from the AstroNuts Kids Space Club in Toronto, and made this video to answer their questions. We talk about what research we’re doing, Martian gravity, food, what we do all day, and how we were selected … Continue reading
Mars on Mars* 