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STAR logo, designed for the project by NASA, and used with kind permission.

STAR logo, designed for the project by NASA, and used with kind permission.

Student Work

These items date from an earlier time when we knew far less than we do now about the surface of Mars following the discoveries of Curiosity, but they show how studying the idea of space travel can stimulate a very wide range of thoughts, whilst still covering real science. We include some examples of what these particular students were inspired to produce.

Students designed PowerPoint displays to illustrate a journey to Mars. Here are two of them:

Another approach was to develop play scripts:

Some of the scripts were filmed, and students explained how they achieved certain effects, such as a boot imprint on the surface of the moon:

A script might be from the point of view of a studio interview of relatives left on Earth following a mission to Mars:

One student reminisced on a previous journey to Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter:

There had to be some thoughts about lost civilisations on Mars:

Students were also asked to think about what they had achieved:

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