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Students answer WH recall questions from the TFK Exploring Mars Article.

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What day did the rover land on Mars?

February 18

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How long did it take the rover to reach Mars's orbit?

nearly seven months

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How big is the rover?

car-sized

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How long will the rover be on Mars?

about two years

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What will the rover explore?

the Jezero Crater

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After Mars lost most of its atmosphere and nearly all of its water, what did it turn into?

a frigid desert

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What will the rover search for?

fossils and other signs of past life

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What are two of the rover's scientific instruments?

a camera; an x-ray instrument; a rock-busting laser; an instrument to test the possibility of making oxygen out of carbon dioxide

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Besides scientific instruments, what else is the rover carrying?

a small helicopter called Ingenuity

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What is the name of the rover that recently landed on Mars?

Perseverance

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How many American spacecrafts have set down on Mars?

9

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Where did NASA hide their secret message on the rover?

in the pattern on the rover's parachute

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What does NASA's secret message say?

"Dare mighty things."

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Who cracked NASA's secret message hidden on the rover?

Maxence Abela and his dad, Jerome

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How many miles did the rover travel to get to Mars?

300 million miles

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What speed did the rover fall through Mars's atmosphere at?

12, 100 miles per hour

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