ASU Mars education program wins science-teaching award from Science magazine
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
Letting secondary school students use an operating NASA spacecraft to take images of Mars is about as hands-on as science education can get. Nor are the students just aiming the space camera randomly. Instead, they are targeting an image on the Red Planet's surface to answer a scientific question about Mars that the students themselves have developed.