EPCOT”s Mission: SPACE ride gets new Mars Rover tracks display. Image courtesy of Walt Disney World.
From the Red Planet to the Sunshine State, Walt Disney World’s latest exhibit at EPCOT transports guests to Mars, showcasing the marks left behind by NASA’s Perseverance rover. Thanks to the combined creativity of Walt Disney Imagineering and NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover team, guests of the theme park’s “Mission: SPACE” attraction can now see a real-life replica of the Martian terrain. A new display mimics the tread marks left by the Perseverance rover on the surface of the planet.
With the help of a prototype wheel loaned from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Disney’s artisans have masterfully re-created the Red Planet’s surface. According to an official Disney post, Imagineers used a 3D print file provided by the space agency to recreate…
