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Take Me Out to the Ballpark – On Mars!

November 05, 2009

Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience "on Mars," even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet. NASA and JPL have partnered with the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum to host a workshop for kids on Sat., Nov. 7, in Cooperstown, N.Y.

At the Imagine Mars workshop, kids will learn about the Martian environment and baseball. They will create uniforms, stadium concepts and rules for playing a baseball game, taking into consideration things like Mars’ gravity, which is 38 percent that found on Earth. This means that if you weigh 100 kilograms (220 pounds) on Earth you would only weigh about 38 kilograms (83 pounds) on Mars. Mars scientist Jim Bell from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., who works on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, will be a guest speaker.

For more information, see news release from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum:
http://web.baseballhalloffame.org/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091005&content_id=7338824&vkey=hof_pr

More information on the Mars Exploration Rover mission is available at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html.

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