Hi! My name's Rebecca from Easter Seals
Greater Houston. Welcome to our
recreation videos provided through our
BridgingApps program. We know you're
probably bored and possibly a little
lonely so we wanted to come to your
screen today and tell you that you were
not alon. We're in this together and
most importantly that our team loves you.
Through these videos we wanted to intend
to showcase online resources that you
can utilize in your own home. Today is
hashtag fun Friday and we want today's
video to highlight a video on Mars.
Alright everyone. So today I thought I
would take you on an adventure that was
really out of this world. Today we're
gonna share with you this is a unique VR
experience to take you to Mars. So during
this virtual tour you will get to see
the real surface of Mars that was
recorded by NASA's rover Curiosity. This
rover traveled 352 million miles to Mars
to try and see if there are any signs of
life. This took about eight months for
Curiosity to travel through space to
finally reach Mars. Now let's go check
out this resource and see just exactly
what curiosity found. Alright guys so
this is the access to Mars website. So as
you can see the link is here. Access to
Mars dot with google.com and what you do
is you're just gonna go ahead and click
on enter 360. This is gonna take you to
the virtual 360 tour that they have. It's
really cool because it'll send you
through this entire intro about when
Curiosity was launched into the mission
and how it all started. So we're gonna
watch it just for a little bit.
All right and so you can see that
Curiosity is now about to land on Mars
and we're fixing to get right and see
what the rover actually did find. All
right so it brings you up to this page
once you get through. And it shows you
how you can access Mars. There's
different little icons you can click. So
this one that kind of looks like a
little -- that's a circle with like another
little like ball in the middle of it.
This is an icon you can click on to
learn about Curiosity's mission, some
points of interest and things that were
highlighted on the rover. The little
squares is how you can move from point
to point by clicking on the different
terrain so that's a different area
surface area. And you can also travel
travel to different missions. So that's
what this little icon looks like as well.
So we're gonna go ahead and click and
kind of play around with this. So again
you can -- and it is video it's also
interactive so there is someone that's
talking to you and kind of explaining
everything and reading it out to you. So
it's really really really helpful. And
it'll show you different points so you
can also click on the rover and
different parts of the rover if you
wanted to check out what that means. And
then let's go ahead and try and move. So
you can move closer. You could also use
your little arrow keys on your computer
if you wanted to do that as well. But
there's definitely a lot of places you
can move around on. And look here's a transport
one. Here's a map. So these are the
different points of areas that we can
transport all over into Mars. There's a
landing site.
There's your current location and
some other locations in between. So if we
want to click on one of them it'll take
us to that area in Mars.
So again really cool. Shows you all the
different training and everything that
the river actually did see on Mars. So
it's super interactive and a lot of fun
to play with. It does -- the controls kind
of do get a little bit difficult so I
would recommend using the little arrows
on your keypad if you're on your
computer because you can zoom in a
little bit better that way.
But it's a lot of fun. Alright guys so in
order to check out this amazing resource
click the link provided in the bio. Again
if you're on your phone make sure to hit
that little drop-down arrow. And say this
research for yourself in the future.
Thank you again for going on this great
adventure and make sure to keep coming
back to our YouTube page to check out
more amazing videos from our entire
Easter Seals Greater Houston team. And
until next time remember we love you.
