Lockheed Martin School Bus Carries Students Across Mars

All this is the magic of virtual reality. The new project Lockheed Martin with the title Generation Beyond aims to “inspire innovators, researchers, inventors and pioneers to implement STEM [ Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, - approx. ed. ] career. One of the methods is to drive the kids around Mars.

Of course, until the actual sending of children to Mars for many more years. Therefore, it was decided to use virtual reality. But not on the scale of video glasses, but on the scale of a school bus. Lockheed Martin specialists converted the regular school bus, turning it into a virtual passenger rover. The bus is moving - the Martian landscape is moving outside the window.

In total, the students were shown about 520 square kilometers of the Martian landscape. The technologies that were used for this purpose are also used in the most advanced video games of modern times. It showed not only the real surface of Mars, but also the ideas of modern scientists about how a colony of earthmen on the Red Planet should look. It would be superfluous to say that the kids reacted to everything happening with delight.
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Lockheed Martin's experience is not the only one; the company plans to regularly arrange trips around Mars for students in US schools from various regions of the country. In addition, the company also offers a free course on “deep space” for US secondary school teachers. The developers of the company have created a mobile application that sends notifications about the weather on Mars to the user.