Your objective is to remotely navigate a Mars rover between specific points on a rocky terrain. Students will utilize the Pythagorean theorem, angle estimation, and the laws of sine, cosine, and tangent to calculate the distance and direction of the rover.
Big Idea:
- You can use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
- Communicating with objects in space involves a delay due to the limited speed that light/radio waves travel.
- If you know the two of the side lengths of a right triangle you can use trigonometry to figure out the measurement of the missing angles.
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