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How to Build a Mars Rover

Armed with only a few pages of Discover's Space Travel special issue, you can construct your own li'l planetary explorer.

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What you’ll need

• Scissors, glue, and a ruler

• A pointed knife with a dull blade

• One sheet each of card stock and printer paper

What to do

• Use the ruler and dull knife to score pieces with score lines on page 85. Make a groove in the paper without cutting all the way through.

• Carefully cut out all the numbered parts.

• Glue parts 2, 6, 16, and 17 to card stock, then cut them out again. Glue parts 12 and 15 to printer paper and cut them out again. Glue the identical segments of part 9 back to back. Score center line in part 8, fold in half, glue back to back, and cut out high-gain antenna (black, red, and white).

• Glue part 2 to the underside of part 1, then cut out the hole toward the front edge.

• Attach part 3, ...

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