"Perseverance Landing" Zoom Classroom

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Rice University Physics & Astronomy Department

Students, teachers and parents - watch the landing and do activities, led by Dr. Carolyn Sumners of the Houston Museum of Natural Science

CALLING ALL TEACHERS!Please join us with your students for an interactive Zoom presentation of the Perseverance rover’s landing on Mars. Follow along with our live audience while performing fun and informative landing-related activities. After signing up, teachers will receive handouts for students to use during the program. This live Zoom program includes the opportunity to interact with our expert staff before and after the landing. • Dr. Carolyn Sumners, the Museum’s Vice President for Astronomy, hosts the Zoom• Dr. Colin Law of Rice University provides Mars content expertise• Ken Hayes, Director of the Museum’s Expedition Center, leads students as they virtually fly over Mars and determine what life would be like on the Red Planet. Together they’ll solve their own landing crisis!• Henrry Ramos, the Museum’s Astronomy Outreach Coordinator, will interface with the NASA landing feed, and will answer student questions in Spanish. Multiple computer feeds provide front-row seats for the landing, including the NASA landing feed.Audiences will take a virtual journey to Mars to experience the Landing of the Perseverance Rover. The excitement builds as the lander enters the Mars atmosphere for a 7-minute dramatic descent to Jezero Crater, followed by an 11-minute wait for the first confirmation from Mars. As the event begins, we focus on the landing and on the future of Mars exploration with kids who may choose to be on the first Mars mission. Interactive activities include planning the landing, growing plants on Mars, searching for water, flying a low Mars orbit, and visiting a simulation of our first human habitat on Mars. When you register, you will be emailed a link to the activity sheets.To get invitations to future online and in-person events, sign up at one of our mailing lists here:        <a href="http://space.rice.edu/nssec/shows.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://space.rice.edu/nssec/shows.html</a>Tickets are free but donations are encouraged (half will go to the Houston Museum of Natural Science and half to Rice University space outreach). Staff support for this event is paid for by NASA: <a href="http://space.rice.edu/NSSEC" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NSSEC at Rice University</a> and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.FAQs Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?No, in fact we encourage parents to share with their children!  Please let us know in the &quot;Chat window&quot; how many children attended with you.  We love kids and welcome their questions!Do I need one &quot;ticket&quot; per person?Yes, please put in your registration the number of separate video feeds (computers) you will need (e.g. if your students are all viewing separately from home). There is a limit of 300 for the Zoom connections, so please don&#x27;t register for more computers than you need connected. What if the link doesn&#x27;t work?Come back and reprint your ticket, or check your email. If we have to change the link at the last minute, we will send everyone registered the new Zoom link.What if the Zoom is full or the registrations are full? If the Zoom is full, you can register for the public 360VR live YouTube version. That one is free and has no limit: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perseverance-landing-vr-watch-party-tickets-141472545191" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perseverance-landing-vr-watch-party-tickets-141472545191</a>

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