Tuesday, April 25, 2006
ASU's Comments on Your Experiments
1. Marsmaticians: They may consider changing their question to "What do the physical characteristics of the floors of channels tell us about the formation and/or subsequent erosion that has taken place. (They will never figure out exactly what formed the channel - but the more doable project looks at the erosional processes that have taken place.)
2. M&Ms: They may consider: What forces have been the most dominant in changing or eroding Valles Marineris? (I added in the most dominant -- I'm sure the telecon on Valles really helped them -- they should have specific categories of what they are looking for - which they do -- but they should also mention or include what these categories "look like" or show samples of them. Even without measurements, they will be fine.)
3. Team Discovery: They may consider: By identifying the beginning or end of a channel, can you identify distinguishing characteristics that can be used to help determine if the channels formed by lava or water? (They would most likely be be better off finding the "beginning" of the channel. They will proably want to use a MOLA map so they can also see how elevation can help them determine the "beginning". As for the part of their question - where the material went - I'm not sure how they would determine this.)
4. Mars Bars: No special comments - sounds interesting!
5. Musicians on Mars: This is the group that really needs a more doable question/project before they can target. They will never be able to identify the type of rocks.
6. Marvelous Mars Women: They may consider: Is it possible to identify distinguishing characteristics between a depression as being created by volcanic or water-related process such as sapping, and if so, what are they. (This sounds interesting).
7. Aurora Boriealis: They may consider: What are the physical differences between the east and west sides of Olympus Mons? (Based on their procedure, they should answer this using crater counts to determine which side E or W of Olympus is older. If these groups decided to do this with Alba - they should still look at crater counts, or in terms of the fractures, cross cutting relationships.)
8. Shooting Stars - same comments as above, if this remains their project.
2. M&Ms: They may consider: What forces have been the most dominant in changing or eroding Valles Marineris? (I added in the most dominant -- I'm sure the telecon on Valles really helped them -- they should have specific categories of what they are looking for - which they do -- but they should also mention or include what these categories "look like" or show samples of them. Even without measurements, they will be fine.)
3. Team Discovery: They may consider: By identifying the beginning or end of a channel, can you identify distinguishing characteristics that can be used to help determine if the channels formed by lava or water? (They would most likely be be better off finding the "beginning" of the channel. They will proably want to use a MOLA map so they can also see how elevation can help them determine the "beginning". As for the part of their question - where the material went - I'm not sure how they would determine this.)
4. Mars Bars: No special comments - sounds interesting!
5. Musicians on Mars: This is the group that really needs a more doable question/project before they can target. They will never be able to identify the type of rocks.
6. Marvelous Mars Women: They may consider: Is it possible to identify distinguishing characteristics between a depression as being created by volcanic or water-related process such as sapping, and if so, what are they. (This sounds interesting).
7. Aurora Boriealis: They may consider: What are the physical differences between the east and west sides of Olympus Mons? (Based on their procedure, they should answer this using crater counts to determine which side E or W of Olympus is older. If these groups decided to do this with Alba - they should still look at crater counts, or in terms of the fractures, cross cutting relationships.)
8. Shooting Stars - same comments as above, if this remains their project.
# posted by Mr. Lindgren @ 1:50 PM 
