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A ‘Flying Saucer’ on the Moon

 

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A ‘Flying Saucer’ on the Moon

This might sound like coming straight out of a science fiction movie but scientists at the prestigious institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed a flying saucer. So, you kids might wonder, well why did they do that? Don’t we have enough aeroplanes and rockets already? And why the Moon, isn’t Elon Musk going to take us to Mars?

Those are some perfectly valid questions but you need to relax a little bit, grab snickers or mars or anything you like and read along. Firstly, you need to realise we need to keep looking, observing and studying planets and other objects in space, who knows what we may find. Also, aeroplanes and rockets are not cool enough to go to the moon. And why bother Elon Musk, he has a lot to do in just helping us go to Mars.

So, unlike some other planets, the surface of Mars is not even, it’s rough and rocky, just like your Dad’s beard or a crispy toast without butter. This flying saucer or “rover” as the scientists call it, can stay above the land. It doesn’t need wheels and doesn’t have any moving parts.  For our readers who are more curious than curiousity itself.

What's a flying saucer?

It’s shaped like a round object and some people believe it comes from another planet.

So, have we spotted any flying saucers to date? Yes, only in the movies and if you have tons of money to travel, check out Area-51 in the United States and tell us what you saw. Coming back to this flying saucer that our scientists have designed, it’s pretty cool, needs very little power, stays above the air, doesn’t need spares and can dodge asteroids.

So, what are the scientists going to do now? Well, they plan to send some saucers over to the Moon, study its surface and come back with tons of information. If you study hard in school, you could do a course at MIT, and maybe become one of these scientists.

Till one of you becomes a scientist, check out this cool video of a flying saucer, built by a youngster back in the 1950s.
Credit for this video goes to Youtube user:- British Pathé

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