Week 5: Ch. 14, Articles, Video
- asteroids
- comets
- meteors
- impacts on Earth
- Extinction of the dinosaurs
- connection between impacts and mass extinctions
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- asteroid
- asteroid belt
- Earth crossing asteroids
- comet
- nucleus
- coma
- tail
- Oort could
- Kuiper belt
- meteor
- meteoroid
- meteorite
- meteor shower
- impact tracers
- Chicxulub
- KT boundary
- fullerenes
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Week 6: Web sites, Ch. 1.4, Video
- NEAR mission
- Crater counts on Eros
- x-ray and gamma ray spectroscopy
- phases of the moon
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- x-ray spectroscopy
- gamma ray spectroscopy
- phases of the moon (waxing crescent, etc.)
- elongation
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Week 7: Ch. 8, web sites
- geology of the moon
- Apollo missions
- Lunar Prospector mission
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- maria
- highlands
- sinuous rilles
- linear rilles
- regolith
- KREEP
- neutron spectroscopy
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Week 8: Ch. 10, web sites
- geology of Mars
- surface of Mars
- Mars Pathfinder mission
- Mars Global Surveyor
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- runoff channels
- outflow channels
- chaotic terrain
- polar caps
- valles marineris
- Olympus mons
- MPF
- MGS
- MOC
- MOLA
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Week 9: Articles, Web Sites
- The question of fossilized life in a Martian meteorite
- The exploration of Mars
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- ALH84001
- PAH
- magnetite
- Mars Direct
- NASA reference mission
- Mars Odyssey
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