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* marks optional (but useful!) readings
Final weekly schedules will be posted by 5:00 p.m. on the previous Friday!
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* marks optional (but useful!) readings
Final weekly schedules will be posted by 5:00 p.m. on the previous Friday!
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1)Remember to work on your independent observations!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Reading for Friday: Read through the MSG science summary page. This gives a fairly short and uncomplicated description of the science. Follow the links and read more about the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), and the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES). Also, follow the link to "latest laser altimeter data". This is an older page with some of the first results from MOLA, but it gives a very nice description of how MOLA works (and hopefully, will look something like what you did in lab!)
1) Study questions on Mars Pathfinder: Bring to class on Wednesday Write a list of 8 - 10 study questions based on the the readings listed for Wednesday ( i.e. the "Overview of Mars Pathfinder Mission" article and the geology and mineralogy sections of the "Mars Pathfinder Science Results" web page). Think about the kinds of questions I write for articles. Bring your list to class on Wednesday.
2) MGS Internet Assignment: Due Friday. The purpose of this assignment is for you to explore the wealth of stunning images from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). The basic assignment is to find four MOC images and write a summary of what the image shows. In finding your four images, think about themes or categories. I would like to have a collection of images based on the surface processes we have been discussing: impact craters, tectonics, volcanism, and erosion. On Mars, we can expect erosional processes to be important, and to include water related features, wind features, and slumping (landslide) features. Chose your four images to represent different types of processes. Also, feel free to include an image that is really interesting but does not really fit into one of surface process categories. When you write your accompanying text, think about what information I would want to share with a class about the image. Start with the title of the image. Be sure to include the size of the area in the image (some images have a size scale drawn on the image). Include a summary of what the images shows. Please email me the images as attachments by noon on Friday so that I can get them ready to show in class. In class I will ask each of you to talk briefly about some of your images. Turn in a copy of your images and your written summary.
First, here is the Mars Global Surveyor Main Page (has some very cool recent images)
All MOC images can be found from the MOC Image Archive. Here are direct links to some of the MOC archive pages:
