students age 15+
Rosetta's Comet Touchdown
An interdisciplinary educational project about the European Rosetta Mission to a comet (arrival 2014). Suitable for students 15+. It involves making a LEGO model of a spacecraft and many other interdisciplinary activities around the topic of comet exploration. The pilot kit comprises a model of the ESA Rosetta lander, Philae, a film explaining the scientific and technical aspects of the mission and a set of Interdisciplinary Activities Sheets with suggestions for how to use the materials.
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Maarten Roos (Lightcurve Films), Steven Canvin (LEGO), Detlef Koschny (ESA)
Year
2010
Length
main supporting film is 20 minutes