{"id":28165,"date":"2013-11-05T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mission-to-mars-simulation\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:24:50","slug":"mission-to-mars-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mission-to-mars-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-28165 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mission-to-mars-simulation\/attachment\/28166\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mvrho6Njji1qbh26io1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mission-to-mars-simulation\/attachment\/28167\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mvrho6Njji1qbh26io2_r2_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/66103212986\/mission-to-mars-simulation\">jtotheizzoe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>I am a certified Mars Rover pilot, and you can be too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.webmaker.org\/\">Mission To Mars 3D<\/a>, anyway)<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, if I polled 100 people on whether they\u2019d like to command a space mission to Mars, or pilot a six-wheeled rover as if it were the universe\u2019s most advanced remote-controlled vehicle (I mean, it has a <em>nuclear power source<\/em>, for cryin\u2019 out loud), 99 of them would say\u00a0<em>HELL YES<\/em>. I don\u2019t know what the other person would be thinking, honestly.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you can do that now. Thanks to a collaboration between the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and Mozilla\u2019s Ignite competition, you can simulate a future trip to the red planet inside your browser with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.webmaker.org\/\"><strong>Mission to Mars 3D Experiment<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This educational game\/tool challenges you to plan and carry out two missions off the bat. First, you devise a rocket launch scheme to send an emergency resupply payload to a science colony on Mars, using a planetary orbit simulator. After you master \u201cthe slingshot\u201d, you pilot a Mars\u00a0<em>Curiosity<\/em> rover clone, using its onboard instruments to locate a good spot to drop a greenhouse module. I decided to launch my mission using the private <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/falcon-heavy\">SpaceX Falcon Heavy<\/a> rocket, and had it arrive at Mars on my birthday \u2026 in 2038.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be old, but what a birthday present, eh?<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind the project told me that the 3D platform is completely open source (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mogox\/mission-to-mars\">their GitHub page<\/a>) and missions can be remixed, but I haven\u2019t played with that part yet. Teachers will enjoy the <a href=\"https:\/\/ben.makes.org\/thimble\/marswebmakerorg-teaching-kit\">educational resources attached<\/a>, because face it, this beats the physics lesson you had planned this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mars.webmaker.org\/\">See you on Mars!<\/a>\u00a0More info available on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.webmaker.org\/webmaker-on-mars\">the Webmaker blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh yeah \u2026<\/strong> and this is especially appropriate since India just launched a Mars mission today, and it was beautiful (more info on that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/emily-lakdawalla\/2013\/11050201-picture-perfect-launch-for-mars-orbiter-mission.html\">from Emily Lakdawalla at The Planetary Society<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/spacecraft\/2013\/20131105_mars_orbiter_mission_launch_low_f537.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jtotheizzoe: I am a certified Mars Rover pilot, and you can be too. (Thanks to Mission To Mars 3D, anyway) Chances are, if I polled 100 people on whether they\u2019d like to command a space mission to Mars, or pilot a six-wheeled rover as if it were the universe\u2019s most advanced remote-controlled vehicle (I mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-28165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7kh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28168,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28165\/revisions\/28168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}