Today’s Pick: Travel to Mars
Experience Mars in a whole new way
If you could travel to Mars, would you? Even we at MaRS are interested.
Space jokes and anecdotes about the planet Mars are in circulation here, being our home planet and all. But this is pretty cool. The Science Centre is opening “Facing Mars,” a hands-on, interactive exhibition, on June 9th.
You can participate in a walk that subtracts 60 per cent of your weight, as it would be on Mars. You can experience some of the potential psychological and emotional stresses that astronauts face and see how contagious emotions can be. The goal of the exhibit is to have you reflect on the human toll of long space voyages as well as the complex engineering and science involved.
So get the kids or put back on that childish sense of curiousity yourself and head out for some science excitement on the OTHER Mars.
Laura Malloy is a freelance journalist living in Mississauga who interned at MaRS. She holds a diploma in Print Journalism from Sheridan College and is a self-confessed word nerd.
[…] You may want to also check out “Facing Mars,” a hands-on, interactive exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre. […]
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Check out this article from the National Post on the Science Centre’s Innovators Ball, which offered a sneak preview of the new exhibition, Facing Mars — Would You Survive the Journey?
The red planet rocks
Posted by: Cathy @ MaRS on July 16th, 2008 at 10:20 am