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Weather and Climate

Lunar rover in its testing environment, created to mimic conditions on the Moon.

Designing Rovers for the Moon’s Extreme Environment

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Learn about the extreme environment on the Moon and the challenges this poses for designing lunar rovers.

Artemis I Liftoff

Artemis Goes to the Moon!

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Learn about NASA’s Space Launch System, which includes the Boeing-built Core Stage, and how it got Orion to the Moon and back again.

Rover on the Moon

Can you design a rover that can survive on the moon?

Hands-on Activities

Design a lunar rover that can survive in the moon’s extreme environment.

Artist image of Theia crashing into Earth

Origin of Earth’s Moon

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Learn how Earth’s moon came to be and what we have learned from Moon rocks.

Illustration of an astronaut standing on a grey moon with a Canadian flag, with space and stars in the background

Canada Goes to the Moon!

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Learn about Canada’s new role in space exploration, what we plan to achieve on and around the Moon.

Evaline Warmels with lunar rover in background.

Evaline Warmels (Video)

Career Profiles

Mechatronical Engineer

As an electrical engineer at Canadensys, I help build robots (lunar landers) that will explore the surface of the moon.
Lunar lander floating above the moon, with the Earth in the background

Let's Talk Space Exploration Resources

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Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.

Space Shuttle Columbia launching

Careers In The Space Sector

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Cameron Dickenson

Cameron Dickinson

Career Profiles

Senior Engineer, Space Exploration

I work on sensors and camera technology for use on planetary exploration missions.
Sea landscape with dam and waves

Waves, Tides and Tsunamis

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Learn about ocean waves and how they can form tsunamis and tidal waves.

Astronauts from the Apollo Mission landing on the moon.

Let's Talk Lunar Resources

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Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!

Marty Robitaille pilotant un aéroglisseur

Marty Robitaille

Hovercraft Captain

ceberg under the midnight sun in Greenland

Climate: Polar Regions

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Learn about the unique climate found in Earth’s polar regions.

Hut on a tiny island

How can we build a structure that protects toy people from wind?

Hands-on Activities

How could you design and build a structure that protects toy people from the wind?

Windy hillside

Weather: Wind

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Learn what causes wind and how to measure it.