'We're so excited to just see something that NASA has built now in stores around the world.'
Hulme purchased one of the NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Lego Technic sets and built it with his children in a few hours spread over several sessions.
It was not just small details like the name chips, either. After having a chance to speak with the engineers who worked on the real Perseverance during a visit to JPL, Lego's designers were able to make their brick-built rover move just like the real one.inherited from the Curiosity rover Lego was also able to represent many of the science instruments on the rover, which are being used to collect rock and soil samples that may contain the signs of, or characteristics capable of supporting, ancient microbial life, as well as well as test out, such as producing oxygen from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
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