Exploring Mars with NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover!

Have you been following NASA's new Mars rover, Perseverance? If not, you are in for a treat! NASA’s Perseverance rover has travelled over 291 million miles to Mars where it is very busy conducting all sorts of experiments. One very important experiment, investigating how to pull breathable air from Mar’s air, will help pave the way for humans to one day go to Mars!!  

Here's a great website from NASA where you can learn more about the mission and get updates as Perseverance explores.

You can also check out these great fiction and nonfiction books about Mars: 

Nonfiction: 


Mars by Elizabeth Carney 









Mars by Julie Murray  









Mission to Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet by David Baker  








What is NASA? by Sarah Fabiny 










Fiction: 


Rappy Goes to Mars written by Dan Gutman and illustrated by Tim Bowers 








Mars’ First Friends: Come on Over, Rovers! written by Susanna Leonard Hill and illustrated by Elisa Paganelli  







Luciana: Out of this World by Erin Teagan  








The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm 









Mars: You Decide How to Survive! written by Hena Khan and David Borgenicht, with Robert Zubrin, and illustrated by Yancy Labat 









-Rebecca



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