Destination Mars

Children's Educational Center in Oradea, Romania
Dec 22, 2010.

Compared with other areas on Earth, Mars is inhospitable, even compared to Antarctica. But compared with other terrestrial planets, Mars appears almost friendly.
Are there necessary elements for life?
Can we ever colonize Mars?
We explored the planet Mars and we constructed a base with all the elements necessary for survival on this planet.

Mission: Destination Mars.

Mission engineers: Adrian and Narcis, the most experienced members of the Astronomy and Space Sciences Club. They are smart and passionate about science and engineering, they built ARES V rocket and designed a base on Mars.
The rocket is on the launch platform.

Mission Pilot: Elena. Brave and fast, these words describe Elena best. She made a perfect landing in a very short time.

Specialist in robotics: Dumitra. She is smart and enthusiastic. She managed many ideas to rover repair.

The team is excited and eagerly await the launch toward Mars.
5,4,3,2,1 Lift Off!

Mission Accomplished!

Destination Mars

Rovers on Mars

Children's Educational Center in Oradea, Romania
Dec.16, 2010

Human did not come from Mars, but knows some of the secrets of planet: water in solid form, the chemical compounds that contain iron, carbon dioxide, methane. The relief of the planet leads to the idea that in the past was liquid water on Mars. We studied some Mars' details and designed rovers for the next mission: Destination Mars.

Asteroids. Meteors and Meteorites

November 25, 2010
The Children's Educational Center of Oradea, Romania

Situated on the border between the terrestrial and giant planets, asteroids are very important objects because it keeps the date entered our solar system formation, 4.56 billion years ago and his subsequent history.
But what happens when after a collision, or the gravitational pull of other celestial bodies, asteroids change its trajectory?
How did dinosaurs exctinct? How was created Meteor Crater from Arizona?
How can we determine the density?
Have the Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos the same shapes with our Moon?
What are the meteors? It is a rain of stars?
The students found answers to all these questions during this activity.

Windows to the Universe

Time: November 11, 2010

The Children's Educational Center in Oradea, Romania

The Universe is fascinating, Hubble Space Telescope shows spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos.

A night sky full of stars and galaxies. We watched the summer triangle Vega, Altair and Deneb.
We participated in Great World Wide Star Count and the magnitude from our location was 3, as the visibility of stars in Cygnus constellation .
The children were delighted by the image of the Moon, the craters, the terminator. Even Jupiter was visible. And that night was really special because before 7 pm time the International Space Station has appeared rushed on the starry sky.

 

 

Journey through our Solar System

Location: Children's Educational Center in Oradea, Romania
Oct. 8-th, 2010


The little "astronauts" from Astronomy and Space Science Club of Oradea, were eager to participate in a space adventure: a journey through the planets and their satellites, during World Space Week.

After a relatively short journey to the Moon, followed by a lunar landing, the crew built a lunar basis, equipped with all necessary elements for human survival in this environment.

Two other teams have traveled to the red planet. Once the rovers arrived on Mars, participated in a competitive race. The laws of physics are the same on Mars: rovers propelled of air-filled balloons.
Finally, participants admired the spectacular images of the amazing Saturn, taken from Cassini spacecraft. They discovered some of the mysteries of the cosmos, with an unforgettable journey through our solar system.

Robots in space

Location: Dacia School Oradea, Romania
Oct. 8-th, 2010.

Robots in space

The outer space is fascinating, but the work and lives of the astronauts in this environment is not easy. Spatial robots are used to facilitate or even replace human work in space. Whether we talk about humanoid robots, autonomous and mobile explorers, all robots are built and programmed to perform a specific task.
Since the first spatial robot  (Sojourner, Robonaut), geologists robots exploring Mars (Spirit and Opportunity) to the robotic Canadarm2 on the International Space Station, which provides a work platform for astronauts, successfully meet all these different robots missions.

Journey through the Stars

Location: Children's Educational Center in Oradea, Romania

Time: September 2-nd, 2010

 
A journey through the stars with a spacecraft which travels with light speed led us into a dream outer space, but still real.
 
We admired stars, galaxies, and we just reached the edge of the known Universe. Here we saw quasars.
We returned safe to Earth and we admired the International Space Station which quickly passed over the night sky.