Image credit: NASA/Margarita Marinova
Students from schools across North America recently participated in a
real NASA Mars mission, called Icebreaker. From their classroom, they
remotely operated a robotic arm that transferred soil samples into a
hopper on a Phoenix-sized mockup spacecraft located in the Antarctic.
Designed and built at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field,
Calif., the robotic arm and its automation and control software is being
tested as part of a mission that drills into the icy subsurface of
Mars.NASA has an education goal to inspire and engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content. To meet that Read More at http://www.myinfoline.com/forum/reply/1209
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