Kahibah Public School
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Both Mars Rovers (MER-A and MER-B) have successfully landed on Mars. On 2001-06-24, the name of the school was listed in a database that was burned onto 2 DVDs.
A DVD is included with each Mars Lander.
The sample image of the dvd shows it as it would be fixed in place on a rover lander.
On each DVD there is a hidden code. See if you can break it. MER-A MER-B
If you do break the code you will receive a Certificate of Accomplishment like this one.
A Mission Participation Certificate dated 2001-06-24 [#1831684 out of 3551645 ] was issued to the school.
A Landing Certificate dated 2004-03-09 was issued.
(NASA)

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Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (NASA) (NASA DSN)

Wikipedia (MER) (Mars)

Planetary Society

Rock Around the World (JPL)
"Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to help them understand the red planet. Send in a rock collected by you or your classroom from your region of the world, and we will use a special tool like the one on the rover to tell you what it's made of. Then everyone can compare their rocks to the ones found on Mars."
See Rhiannon's rock and spectrum analysis
in more detail.
Rock number RATW00497

What time is it on Mars?

Why not try to drive on Mars!!!

MER-A "Spirit" MER-B "Opportunity"
Launch Dates 2003-06-10 17:58 UTC 2003-07-08 03:18 UTC
Landing Dates 2004-01-04 04:35 UTC 2004-01-25 05:05 UTC
Landing Sites
(source: esri)		 Gusev Crater
14.5784 S, 175.472636 E		 Meridiani Planum
1.9462 S, 354.4734 E
End of Mission (est) 2004-04-04 2004-04-25
End of Mission (actual)    

Mars Explorer Rover-A (MER-A) ("Spirit") was launched by a Delta 7925 vehicle from pad 17-A Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida.
Mars Explorer Rover-B (MER-B) ("Opportunity") was launched by a Delta II Heavy vehicle from pad 17-B Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida.

Our next space mission is Comet Tempel 1

DELTA II Launch Vehicle

The Delta II is an expendable launch, medium-lift vehicle that is primarily used to launch Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites into orbit, providing navigational data to military and civilian users. Additionally, the Delta II launches civil and commercial payloads into low-earth, polar, geo-transfer and geosynchronous orbits.

The first Delta II was successfully launched 1989-02-14, at Cape Canaveral. There are two primary versions of the Delta II (6925 and 7925). The Delta 6925, the first version, carried the initial nine GPS satellites into orbit.

Specifications
Primary Function: Space lift vehicle
Launch Sites: Space Launch Complex 17, Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla.; Space Launch Complex 2, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
Builder: Boeing Company, Expendable Launch Systems
Thrust (at liftoff) : 3,110,264 Newtons
Height: 38.329 metres
Diameter: Fairing - 2.895 metres , Core - 2.438 metres
Weight: 231,872 kg

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