Last Night, the The NASA InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) probes successfully reached the surface of Mars.\u00a0 \u00a0This will be the first probe to dedicate its investigations to understanding Mars’ interior. Scientists want to know how this world is constructed – from its core to its crust.<\/p>\n
The pupils of Portpatrick Primary have had a long wait for this mission to reach its destination, which was originally scheduled for May 2018.\u00a0 Last October, the boys and girls took advantage of the opportunity to participate in the mission by\u00a0adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander. More than 2.4 million names from around the world were added to the microchip, which has now safely reached the surface of the Red Planet.\u00a0 Parents may recall the children coming home with their individual printed boarding passes for the mission.<\/p>\n
Our connection to the mission has encouraged pupils to take a keen interest in this scientific event.\u00a0 The children are enthusiastically discussing the space mission in school, which aligns perfectly with this term’s Solar System science topic for P4-7.<\/p>\n
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