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Mars Encounter: Let your visitors explore Mars!
When your visitors can feel how Mars is smooth on one side and rough on the other, run their hands across the craters and volcanoes, and experience the landscape through their fingers, then they are really starting to explore the Red Planet.

Chabot Space & Science Center commissioned an incredible centerpiece for its successful Mars Encounter exhibit—a 4-foot diameter tactile globe of Mars that glows with special effects lighting. Built to a slightly exaggerated scale that highlights the surface features of the planet, the globe is a definite “wow” factor as well as an amazing learning tool. It is appealing to all ages, and is accessible to those with physical or learning disabilities as well. It is durable enough to withstand the touch of many hands.

The Mars globe makes an eye-catching piece for any lobby or exhibition, and can be the center of attention for any news story. It is especially handy when a reporter needs an exciting visual when pointing out landing sites and talking about the upcoming Mars landings, scheduled for January 2004.

Since the globe has been on display here at Chabot, it has proved a crowd pleaser for all who visit.

If you are interested in a Mars globe for your facility, contact Tamara Schwarz at tschwarz@chabotspace.org or (510) 336-7349 for more information.

More Mars Exhibits!

Whether you are seeking to present information about previous missions to Mars, provide basic facts, or look to the future of human exploration of the planet, we have the exhibits you need. Complete with our very own Martian, Marti (merchandise available), these exhibits have been 'crash tested' at our own facility.

Mars IQ Quiz
What are the names of moons of Mars? How high is the Olympus Mons volcano? How cold is it on Mars? Answers to these questions and more are explored in the Mars IQ Quiz, which contain three sets of ten multiple-choice questions that cover a range of factual information. After answering 10 questions, the users sees his/her score and corresponding classification as an Earthling, Mars Cadet, or Martian; the second and third set can only be accessed after completing the first set.

“Would you go to Mars?” Polling Station
Would you go to Mars? What would you take with you? And what do you you'd find when you arrive? Visitors answer 10 multiple-choice questions and see how their responses compare to a running tally of previous visitors. An administrative screen allows staff to access that running tally of how many visitors have answered each question & how they answered.

Past Explorers Mission Control Station
Learn about the successes — and failures — of past missions to explore Mars. Ten short video segments cover missions from Mariner 4 to Mars Odyssey.

Red Planet Adventures
What will interplanetary adventure travel be like? Take a virtual trip to Mars with our futuristic travel guide to experience out-of-this-world adventures on the Red Planet: ski the polar ice caps, climb the highest volcano in the Solar System, visit the historic site of a Viking landing, and more!

All material for the Mars Encounter exhibit was developed to target roughly a sixth grade reading level.

For additional information, contact , Exhibits Manager, at (510) 336-7349.

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