He Spirit robot It is part of NASA's Mars exploration program. The ship landed on that planet on January 4, 2004 and although it is still there, it can be said that the robot ended its activity in March 2010. Even so, all its years of management in the fascinating red planet have collected them in an entertaining application called Spirit's Journey.
This is a website set up by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory that shows the path followed by Spirit during his more than six years of activity on Mars. The application requires additional software to install and once done allows, as seen in the image that illustrates the article, to travel Mars from the robot.
The application is very simple and a child can handle it while accessing fascinated, which I think has to be incredible, to the images of the planet. The controls allow you to go forward and backward in addition to zooming in the views. At the top of the image, mission data such as the date on Earth, the day of the mission, the state of the sky, the outside temperature and the battery charge appear. Fundamental to a robot with these characteristics and the main cause of its paralysis: not receiving enough sunlight to recharge its batteries. Still it should be remembered that the robot was designed to last 90 soles of Mars and has exceeded 1,200.
Among the options of rescuing the nice robot, which will always remind us of Wall-E, the one of Julian, a seven-year-old boy, who proposed to use the arm of Spirit's camera to support him on the ground play tripod stands out, lift the Robot and unclog the wheels.
I recommend the application and I think it can be very interesting to be presented in the classroom with the digital board. You can teach a lot of things using this nice robot as an excuse.
