Welcome to CampBTX!

Day 3 Agenda:

• Mars Geologic Epochs
• Mars Recent Activity
• Mars Geologic Map
• Meteorites Activity
• Introduction to Spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy Activity

Day 3 Links:

Mars Geologic Epochs:

• ESA description of Mars ages

Mars Recent Activity:

• Small Lava Flows Emanating From the Cerberus Fossae
• Recent water flows in Cerberus Fossae
• Cerberus Fossae
• Flood Lava and Rootless Cones in Cerberus Palus

Mars Geologic Map:

• USGS Geologic Map of Mars

Introduction to Spectroscopy:

• Spectroscopy 101

Day 2 Agenda:

• Mars Laser Altimetry
• Mars Surface Temperatures
• Mars Hydrothermal Systems
• Mars Reconaissance Orbiter and its instruments
• High-resolution imaging of Mars
• Mars ground-penetrating radar

Day 2 Links:

Mars Laser Altimetry

• An evaluation of interpolation methods for MOLA data (website)
• An evaluation of interpolation methods for MOLA data (paper)

Mars surface temperatures:

• Five Years of Monitoring Mars' Daytime Surface Temperatures (Animation)

Mars hydrothermal systems:

• Impact-induced hydrothermal activity on early Mars (paper)
• iSALE animation example

Mars Reconaissance Orbiter (MRO) and its instruments:

• MRO website

High-resolution imaging of Mars:

• HiRISE | High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment

Day 1 Agenda:

• Introduction to Mars
• Brief history of Mars exploration
• Mars orbital spacecraft and their instruments
• Overview of Mars resources
• Overview of Mars science

Day 1 Links:

Mars (robotic) missions to date:

• Chronology of Mars Exploration

Mars basemaps:

• Viking MDIM basemap
• Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) color globe
• MGS topography globe
• MGS topography map with names

Higher-order data product example:

• Surface roughness globe

Different Ways to Visualize Data:

• On a map
• On a globe
• Gridded datapoints

Maps of key resources:

• Albedo
• Thermal Inertia
• Hematite
• Clays
• Carbonates
• Water ice
• Caves