14-16-year-old students

What are the keys of landing on Mars?

The material for the classroom before coming to ESAC can be divided into two parts:

• For students:
  • Introduction to ESA (6:46 min)
  • Science@ESA: Episode 7: Exploring our backyard, the Solar System (16:43 min)
  • Planetary Missions and beyond the Solar System (12:29 min)

• For teachers:
  • Click here to download the Scientific Case

Today, Mars is a cold, dry planet, but in the past Mars was covered in rivers, lakes and perhaps even an ocean. For this reason, scientists wonder whether life could have once existed on Mars.