“Is it possible to get a rover back from mars?” my lab partner Michael Land asked Tanya Harrison a Planetary Scientist and Geologist with Centre for Planetary Science and Space Exploration (CPSX), on Wednesday, December 9th of 2015. (Tanya Harrison is a student from Ontario, Canada working on her PhD right now.)

Mr.Robinson set up a Skype call with Tanya so the class of Grade 9 Science from Riverside Secondary School could ask her some questions about the rover “Opportunity” and other topics related to space.

Michael Land talking to Tanya Harrison.

“Is it possible to get a rover back from mars?” Michael Land asked Tanya Harrison, she answered with; “We don’t have the technology to make rockets powerful enough to fly other rockets that would bring back the rover, however, we do have the technology to bring back rock samples from mars to earth, with is a mission NASA is currently working on.”

How I felt about this project:

I’m the kind of person who’ll read articles about space for hours everyday, I am really interested in the topic of the vast unknown, so it was really cool that someone of the rank of Tanya answered our interesting questions.