Skype Chat with Tanya Harrison
Tanya Harrison is a Planetary Scientist. She currently is studying features on Mars to tell us about climate change. Before though she worked with cameras on Mars rovers like Curiosity. She Skyped our class yesterday, December 9th 2015. We all took turns asking her a question and listening to her give us facts and information regarding our questions. I thought the experience was fun and cool way of learning instead of just reading a text book.
Our question was; “what is your favourite part of what you do?”
Another question asked was if she would consider space travel her answer was that due to being claustrophobic she didnt think that she could make it much farther than the earths orbit.
She also shared that it took NASA about 8-10 years to build a rover that would be able to be sent up to mars.
What we learned is that it does not take a day to create a rover it takes years just for the preperation. And the amount of work put into it for just a little bit of outcome. In conclusion this was very fun to do and provided us some education on the topic in a creative way.