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
Subject: Mars
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Mars Meteorite Compendium part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This extensive compilation of data from Martian meteorites is organized rock by rock, with a brief mention of each important paper according to subject (petrology, isotopes, etc.) Chemical and ...
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 ...
Martian Meteorites part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site features an easy to use table of information regarding Martian meteorites. The meteorites are sorted according to type and include other information such as mass, type of meteorite, and the ...
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 ...
