Aiden had a bored Sunday morning until he got the idea to do a school project about a trip to Mars. He used math to calculate that the average speed of the trip would be 10,611.3 KPH and take 214 days. On Mars, Aiden encountered Olympus Mons, the tallest mountain, over 3 times taller than Mount Everest. He took a stroll in his spacesuit and met the Mars rover Pathfinder, riding it for a few hours before realizing it would take over 65 years to circle Mars at its slow speed. Aiden then called his parents on his mobile phone, but the conversation lasted 45 minutes due to the delay for radio signals to travel from Mars to Earth.

1. Aiden’s trip to Mars
By Aiden V.C. 5/6FM
and family

3. Narrative
• It was a Sunday morning, and I was completely
bored.
• But then I suddenly remembered! ‘’ O.M.G.! ‘’
[Whatever that means] ‘’ What can I do for my
maths project?! ‘’ I would have bumbled along
like this until the time when Star Wars was
possible, [completely failing the project in the
process] but for when a great idea came to my
mind! ‘’ I shall go t…. ‘’ Oh no! No! No! No! No!
No! YES! ‘’ I shall go to Mars! Wait! How do I get
there again? ‘’

4. • WARNING!
• THE NEXT FEW SLIDES WILL CONTAIN A HECK
OF A LOT OF MATHS!
• THANKS TO MY DAD!
• OH YES! AND ME!

5. Getting There
When Mars and Earth are at their closest
distance of : 54,500,000 KM, the journey will
take 214 days.
So my average speed will be:
Speed= distance /time.
Speed= 54,500,000 KM / 214 Days
Speed= 54,500,000 KM / [214 X 24] Hours
Speed= 54,500,000 KM / 5136 Hours
Speed= 10,611.3 KMPH
VERY ZIPPY!

6. Olympus Mons
• ‘’ I have just landed and I… HOLY CANOLI! ‘’ [And I
wish I had one now!] ‘’ There is Olympus Mons! This
is the tallest mountain on Mars!
• How high is it you ask?
Height of Olympus Mons/Height of Mount Everest
= 27 KM/8.3KM
=3.068
• THAT’S OVER THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF MT EVEREST!

7. Aiden’s Field Trip
• ‘’ Okay I’ve landed on Olympus Mons, and I feel like
going for a good ol’fashioned stroll around Mars! ‘’
• ‘’ WAIT! ‘’
• ‘’ Can I actually go outside without dying a horrible
death by suffocation, or by Martians? ‘’
• ‘’ I shall have to consult with my Sm-aRt Computer
Travis! ‘’
• ‘’ And here is what he came up with! ‘’

8. Gas Comparison
Mars Earth
Carbon
Dioxide Carbon
Dioxide
Nitrogen
Nitrogen
Argon
Argon
Oxygen
Oxygen
Carbon
Monoxide
In conclusion, I think I will need my
spacesuit!

9. Aiden’s Field Trip [Continued]
While on my stroll around Mars
[Wearing my spacesuit of course] I
bumped into the Mars rover Pathfinder.
So I did what any other sensible person
would do! Give it some cheese, a good
scratch behind the ear, and hopped on
for a trip around Mars!
How long did it take me?

10. The Trip
Speed of Pathfinder = 1 CM Per second
= 0.00001 KM/0.00027 Hours
= 0.0370 KM per hour
So to travel around Mars it would take:
Time = Distance/Speed
= 21.344 KM/0.0370 KMPH
= 576.864.8649 Hours!
= 576.864.8649/24 Hours
= 24.036 Days
= 24.036/365
= 65.8 Years!

11. Conversations
• ‘’ Smartly I hopped off Pathfinder after I had only gone a couple of
centimetres over 4 hours. ‘’
• ‘’ So then I quickly trundled back to my tiny base to call my parents on
my: Super hydromatic space zippy caller fountainised communicater
turbo charg…. Okay! Fine! My mobile phone! ‘’
• But my phone conversation had actually lasted over 45 minutes!
• Why is this you ask? And NO, I don’t do long phone conversation’s!
• Radio waves travel at the speed of light which is 300.000 KM Per second.
• So the time for my voice to reach Earth from Mars is:
• Time = 54,500,000 KM/300.000 KM Per second
• = 180 seconds
• 180/60 Minutes
• = 3 Minutes! That is a long wait for a person to hear you from Mars!

12. Pictures

14. Mars Facts
• 1. Distance between Earth and Mars:
• Shortest: 54,500,000 KM [34,000,000 Miles]
• Farthest: 76,000,000 Miles
• = 76,000,000 times 1.6 KM= 121,600,000KM
• 2. Temperature:
• Lowest:-123 Degrees Celsius/90 Degrees
Fahrenheit
• The temperature range is equal to highest-lowest.
• 32 Degrees Celcius to -123 Degrees Celcius
• =155 Degrees Celcius.

15. • It took Mars’s rover Curiosity approximately
8 months to get to Mars.
• Mars day: 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds!
• A Mars year is almost 2 whole Earth years!
• Distance around Mars: 21, 344 KM

16. • Thankyou for watching!