Well . . . How about Sunday?

The images are here! Go to http://www.gatesscience.info/teamescience/msip2009.htm and take a look. Craters and Channels, you're fine. Lava Tubes? I only see one. All three groups, feel free to use the "Wild Card" image as an alternative to your image. I'd like to see as many of you as possible Monday afternoon.

Clear Skies,

Mr. Lindgren

Don't Panic! It's what science is really like!

Your images should be here by Friday. As soon as I get them, I'll post them to the MSIP projects page (The page you used to get to the blog). Hopefully you have everything except the actual measurements done by this point.

Clear Skies,

Mr. Lindgren

Things to do until the images arrive

"I’m glad it was a neat afternoon. I’m also glad you were excited to put in a couple of targets yourself as well. The hope is, both primary and secondary targets (for each group) will be acquired. As soon as the images are down on the ground I will get them to you. Things have been coming down a little slow, so hopefully we can get an electronic copy of the images to the students before they display their projects. The images will be acquired on Tuesday of next week. We’ll probably not have them on the ground until you are here. We can have you email them to the students (or at least I can put them on a link where the students can get them) once I have the images." - NASA Scientist at ASU

So . . . the most important thing for each group to do is to get as much done beforehand. DON'T wait until the images arrive to start. Here are some ideas.

Craters:

Start looking at images from the satllite you selected. Try to get an image the same size as the THEMIS image. If you can't get one that small, then use a portion of a larger scale. Read this article - http://msip.asu.edu/uploads/243/paper1.doc it contains a much simpler graph from the one you were going to use. What "age" do you think your crater image was? Use that as a guide, and actually find the age of the lunar surface. Then, when you get the Mars image, do the same thing.

Lava Tubes:

Find THEMIS images of each stage in the destruction of a lava tube showing all of the physical characteristics. You have no idea on what you're going to get. Actually, one of the images I'm getting might work if your's don't show anything. Go back and look at http://www.gatesscience.info/teamescience/pdf/msip/finale2.pdf to see how another group did this.

Channels:

Research the depositional features that should be found in bends in channels. You are attempting to discover if the same is true for Mars as Earth. Go to Google Earth and try and find dried up rivers in the American southwest. They will probably show the same type of features as channels on Mars.

GET Busy!

Targeting Results

ASU e-mailed me to confirm that the targets arrived. They have been put in the cache to be uploaded to the spacecraft! I've posted your images to the website. If you're checking this message you'll see that there's a new row in this table for the targeting images. If you click on that it will take you to our primary and secondary images. I'd suggest you start to write a description of that area now.

Nice Work, by the way!

We Did GOOD!

Don't let your English teacher see this, but we really did GOOD! This is the best set of orbits I have ever seen! He have the Hellas Basin! I've NEVER had the Hellas Basin before. We have several passes through Valles Marineris. All three groups have a great chance to obtain great images, but you must choose carefully. Your answers must be sent to ASU by 5:00 p.m. est Thursday. The URL for your orbits is http://tinyurl.com/7288no go to it! Practice! Come to 121 on Thursday afternoon ready to refine your work and post!

Clear Skies,

Mr. Lindgren

Another Major Change!

ASU will let all three groups target. Be sure you're at the meeting on Monday.

ASU Had a change of Heart!

Good news for the cratering group! ASU will let you target. They'll send me the information Monday.