Students from three GTA schools won a national competition to experience what it’s like to remotely control a lunar rover.
“I never knew anything about space or lunar rovers before so it was really fun to know that I won this competition,” Manvi Lakhani, a Grade 9 student at Bayview Secondary School in Richmond Hill, told CTV News Toronto Monday.
The students were given a mission — to use the rover to find ice on the moon. The drivers’ classmates were their support staff. Their job was to figure out which direction to take the rover, track battery life and temperature, and identify the right type of rocks to locate the ice. The first task was finding where the lunar rover had been dropped.
Students from the Greater Toronto Area test out a lunar rover prototype headed for moon exploration. “A two-hour session brings like 50 metres travel or way less than that, because there is so much conversation, thinking and consideration that goes into every move,” she explained.
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