Our Journey to Mars - by Jane, Jack, John, Jill

We're on the spaceship now. The take off was amazing! It felt like being on a massive rollercoster that just kept going and going. Now we are in space and we are floating around the spaceship. We don't have to wear seatbelts or anything.

The trip to Mars from Earth is about 70,300,000km! That's like flying around the world 1,750 times!!! It will take us about 7 months to get to Mars in our spaceship.









Here is a picture of Mars from our spaceship. It looks awesome!!!

We haven't passed any planets on the way to Mars as Mars is next to the Earth.

The landing was a bit bumpy, but a camera on the spaceship filmed the whole thing and you can see it if you click here. It also shows all the instruments on our spaceship. Our spaceship is the same one as the Phoenix Mars Lander that went to Mars in 2008.

(Reference/Sources: http://gkbsolarsystem.wikispaces.com/file/view/mars_face_and_north_ice.jpg/115151131/mars_face_and_north_ice.jpg
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=930_1211619917)