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When NASA sends another rover to the surface of Mars next year, it will have a helicopter attached. The Mars Helicopter will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet! The small chopper will test controlled flight, in the thin Martian atmosphere. If successful, future helicopters will carry scientific instruments to explore Mars.
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It’s National Trail Mix Day. That means you can take the last of all your bags of pretzels, peanuts, chocolate chips, pumpkin seeds, raisins, and whatever else you like, and mix them together. Then go for a long hike and eat your snack for energy! Yes, walking around your house counts!
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There’s a cast at the Northshore Orthopaedic and Spine Institute, that’s big enough to fit a 78-foot-tall person! The Illinois hospital constructed the cast to raise awareness of bone and joint health. The 12-foot-long, 5-foot-wide cast is the world’s largest, and you can sign it this weekend at the Westfield Mall in Skokie!
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If you’re in Laguna Beach California, you could see a guy vacuuming the lawn. He has a friend who’s letting the sun roast a hot dog on a stick. Others are getting ready to launch a toilet plunger, or playing horseshoes. They’re sculptures by artists Mark Jenkins and Sandra Fernandez, just having some fun!
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NASA is planning to launch the next rover to Mars in 20 20, but it needs a name. They are asking kids in U.S. schools to help! Students must write an essay explaining why NASA should pick their name. If you have a good idea for a name, go to the mars.nasa.gov website, and enter!
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International Whale Shark Day celebrates the biggest fish in the world. It is not a whale, but it grows as big as one! Whale sharks can grow 41 feet long, but they eat tiny plankton. They have to travel great distances in tropical waters to find enough plankton to feed their giant bodies!
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Today is Frankenstein Day. Lurch around like Dr. Frankenstein’s creature, or read the original book, written by Mary Shelley. Maybe Frankenstein should have electrified marshmallows instead, since it’s Toasted Marshmallow Day! Have a bonfire, and roast one on a stick, or watch a marshmallow grow huge in the microwave!
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Employees at the Benesch engineering company in Pennsylvania, got 50 children to help set up a Hot Wheels track, which was 2,176 feet long! The track carried a toy car the full length, to set a new world record for longest Hot Wheels track. Would 1400 pieces of track, fit in your house?
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Personalized license plates can be fun. It’s a challenge to create a word or phrase using only 7 or 8 letters. Wendy Auger’s plates say something she’s told her kids for years: P-B-4-WE-GO! She’s fighting for the right to keep using it, after the New Hampshire Department of Motor Vehicles banned it for referencing excretory functions!
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A new energy system called the Eavor Loop, could be the key to generating unlimited electricity. It consists of 2 wells, drilled 2 miles deep and 3 miles apart, connected by pipes. The pipes circulate fluid heated by the Earth’s core. The geothermal project is being tested in Canada, but can be used almost anywhere!
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