Water, Water, Everywhere?

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Using Earth to Explore MarsJoshua Bandfield and
Brian GrigsbyArizona State University
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Earth and Mars Features

• Volcanoes and lava flows
• Rock layers, channels, and other water related
  features
• Canyons
• Impact craters
• Eolian features (dust dunes)
• Polar caps
• Much more

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Arizona
NASA/JPL/Cornell
Mars
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Volcanoes and Volcanic Features
Olympus Mons, Mars
NASA/JPL/MSSS
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Kamchatka, Russia
Trace where you see lava flows on both images
NASA Earth Observatory
Hecate Tholus Mars
NASA/JPL/ASU
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NASA/JPL/ASU
NASA Earth Observatory
Arsia Mons, Mars
Hawaii
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Rock Layers, Channels, and Other Water Related
Features
Rock Layers Mars
NASA/JPL/ASU
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Great Salt Desert, Iran
NASA/JPL/MSSS
NASA Earth Observatory
What could have caused the patterns you see in
both images?
Rock Layers Mars
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Lena River Delta, Russia
NASA/JPL/MSSS
NASA Earth Observatory
Holden Crater Delta, Mars
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NASA/JPL/ASU
NASA Earth Observatory
Which direction the water was flowing in the Mars
image?
Outflow Channel, Mars
Braided Stream, Madagascar
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Gullies, New Mexico
NASA/JPL/MSSS
Joe Hearst (jhearst_at_typepad.com)
Gullies Mars
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Canyons

• Valles Marineris, Mars
• Stretches for 1000s of km!

NASA/JPL/MSSS

• Originally formed through tectonics
• Later modified by giant floods

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Grand Canyon, Arizona
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
NASA Earth Observatory
Valles Marineris Mars
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Impact Craters
NASA/JPL/ASU
Can you trace the ejecta blanket in this image?
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Meteor Crater, Arizona
NASA/JPL/Cornell
Louis J. Maher, Jr.
Endurance Crater Mars
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Dust and Dunes
NASA/JPL/MSSS
Dust Storm, Earth
Dust Storm Mars
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NASA/JPL/MSSS
Can you identify the dust storm in the image on
the right?
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NASA/JPL/ASU
Dust Devil, Arizona
Dust Devils Mars
NASA/JPL/MSSS
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Sand Dunes, Colorado
NASA/JPL/MSSS
Louis J. Maher, Jr.
Sand Dunes Mars
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Polar Caps

• Mars polar caps are made of solid carbon dioxide
  (dry ice) and water ice

NASA/JPL/MSSS
Mars South Pole
Earths South Pole
NASA/USGS
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Erebus Glacier, Antarctica

• CO2 Frost forms over many surfaces annually

NASA Earth Observatory
Layers of dust and ice Mars
NASA/JPL/MSSS
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Snow Drifts, Antarctica
NASA/JPL/MSSS
NASA Earth Observatory
Swiss Cheese Terrain Mars
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Mars Exploration Program Timeline
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Present Day Spacecraft (NASA)
Mars Odyssey(2001)
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) (1997)
2 Mars Exploration Rovers (2004)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2006)
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What are the names of the Mars Exploration Rovers?
Discovery Columbia Lewis Clark Spirit Opportunity Cassini Magellan



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Future Spacecraft in Development (NASA)
Phoenix Mars Lander (Aug 2007)
Mars Science Lab (MSL) (Fall 2009)
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Beyond 2009
Scout missions
Astrobiology Field Lab
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Additional Websiteshttp//marsed.asu.eduhttp//
themis.asu.eduhttp//mars.jpl.nasa.gov/http//ms
ip.asu.edu
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National Science Teachers Association Gerry
Wheeler, Executive Director Frank Owens,
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