Internet Resources for Teaching About Mars
This collection of digital resources includes web sites useful for integrating Mars data into commonly taught undergraduate geoscience courses and for teaching planetary geology in general.
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Subject: Geoscience
Subject: Lunar and Planetary Science
- 11 matches General/Other
- Mars 42 matches
Subject: Mars
- 16 matches General/Other
- Water/Ice 3 matches
- Atmosphere/Climate 1 match
- Structure/Tectonics 2 matches
- Geophysics 1 match
- Volcanology/Petrology 3 matches
- Sedimentary Processes 1 match
- Impact Cratering 2 matches
- Life on Mars 1 match
- Missions/Data Acquisition 23 matches
- Images/Maps/Visualizations 30 matches
- Martian Meteorites 7 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 42 matches
Scientific Visualization Studio: Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio features many images and animations of the planet Mars. These visualizations were created using data acquired from various satellites and ...
Liquid Water on Mars: The Story from Meteorites part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Martian Meteorites Record Surface Temperatures on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Planetary Science Research Discoveries at the University of Hawaii uses recent research on using the ages of Martian meteorites to explore the history of surface temperature on Mars. ...
Meteorites from Mars, Rocks from Canada part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from the University of Hawaii's Planetary Science Research Discoveries compares rocks from Theo's flow, an unusually thick lava flow in Ontario, to nakhlites, meteorites from Mars. The ...
Mars Meteorites part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Of the 24,000 or so meteorites that have been discovered on Earth, only 34 have been identified as originating from the planet Mars. This site from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory features a ...
New Map Provides More Evidence Mars Once Like Earth part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center summarizes recent findings that point to evidence of active plate tectonics on Mars. A high resolution magnetic field map of the entire planet, the ...
Mineralogy and Geochemistry: Mars Pathfinder Science Results part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center features a geochemical analysis of rocks and soils on the surface of Mars using the rover's Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer. Interestingly, these ...
The Chemical Composition of Martian Soil and Rocks Returned by the Mobile Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer: Preliminary Results from the X-ray Mode part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article presents the chemical composition of six soils and five rocks at the Ares Vallis landing site obtained by the alpha proton x-ray spectrometer on board the rover of the Mars Pathfinder ...
Magnetite morphology and life on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This National Academy of Sciences scholarly paper discusses the strongest line of evidence for past life on Mars based on NASA's David McKay's original claims of finding nanofossils on the ALH84001 ...
Infrared Analysis of Small Impact Craters on Earth and Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article from the Image Visualization and Infrared Spectroscopy Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh examines how thermal infrared data (TIR) from the Thermal Emission Imaging System ...
