Mars in the Geography Classroom

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Mars in the Geography Classroom

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers(20 October 2007)

Dr. Christine M. RodrigueCalifornia State University, Long Beach

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Mars Geographers A few of the many geographers active in the study of Mars

Mary C. Bourke, Oxford Geography Department M. Buchroithner, Inst für Kartographie, Dresden Ed Cloutis, Geography, University of Winnipeg Bethany L. Ehlmann, Oxford Geography M.Sc. 2007, going on for Ph.D. in

Geology at Brown University Julie Laity, Geography, CSUN K. Maria D. Lane, Geography, UT Austin Ruth Mugford, Ph.D. student, Cambridge Geography Richard J. Pike, M.A. Geography, Ph.D. Geology, U.S.G.S. John Pitlick, University of Colorado, Boulder Wayne H. Pollard, McGill University Andrew J. Russell, Physical Geography, Keele University, UK Richard Soare, Concordia University

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My Previous Work in Risk Perception and Communication in the Space Program

Internet media in technological risk amplification: Plutonium on Board the Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft Risk: Health, Safety, & Environment 12, 3 / 4 (Fall, 2001): 221-254

Impact of Internet media in risk debates: The controversies over the Cassini-Huygens mission and the Anaheim Hills, California, landslide. The Australian Journal of Emergency Management 16, 1 (August, 2001): 53-61.

Construction of hazard perception and activism on the Internet: Amplifying trivial risks and obfuscating series ones Natural Hazards Research Working Paper 106 (2001).

Risk representation in the space program: The Internet and social amplification of risk. NASA Teleconference among NASA Headquarters, Jet Propulsion Lab, Ames

Research Center, and Johnson Space Center (November, 2001)

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Mars: A Regional Areography Syllabus Introduction

Geography (and geographers) and the study of Mars

History of Mars Exploration Earth-based observations and robotic missions

Remote Sensing and Spacecraft Basics Remote sensing, spacecraft, missions, imagery

Mars in Space Orbital, rotational, size characteristics, moons

A Physiographic Regionalization of Mars Vocabulary, orders of relief scheme

A Climatic Regionalization of Mars Atmosphere, weather, geochemical cycles, regions

Human-Environment Relations: Mars and the Imagination Science, science fiction, pseudoscience, and politics

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Mars: Third Order Landscapes

Debates over Era Lengths

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Mars: Fourth Order LandscapesOverview: Theatre-Headed Canyons, Chaos Terrains, Softened Craters

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Mars: Fourth Order Landscapes Æolian Features: Yardangs, Wind-Etched Layers, Dunes

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Mars: Fourth Order LandscapesTectonic Features: Folded/Faulted Mountains, Volcanoes, Mensæ, Lava Tubes, Fossæ

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Mars: Fourth Order LandscapesMass Wasting: Landslides, Dust Avalanches (or Water?)

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Mars: Fourth Order LandscapesCoastal Processes? Wave Cut Benches? Wave Built Terraces? “Coasts”? Channels Ending in Vastitas Borealis?

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Mars: Fourth Order LandscapesFluvial Features: Alluvial Fans and Deltas, Sapping, Fluvial Valleys, Jökulhlhaups

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Mars: Fourth Order LandscapesLayered Ice Caps, Crater Glaciers, Frost, Polygon-Patterned Ground

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Mars: Fifth Order LandscapesDust Devil Tracks, Frost, “RAT” Hole, Rover Tracks, Concretions and Blueberries

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Mars: AtmosphereEccentricity and Seasons, Vertical Temperature and Pressure Structure

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Mars: AtmosphereWeather: Dust Storms, Tides, Dust Devils, Clouds, Polar Hurricanes

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Mars: AtmosphereClimate Change?

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Mars Imagined

How have you imagined Mars?

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Mars and Earth: Vertical Temperature Structure

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Mars and Earth: Magnetic Fields: Planetary versus Local

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Mars and Earth:Orbital Differences, Aphelion/Perihelion, Seasons

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Mars and Earth:Plate Tectonics

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Mars and Earth:Mountains: Olympus versus Everest and Mauna Kea

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Mars and Earth:Triple Point of Water

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Mars: InformationBooks

The Smithsonian Book of Mars Joseph Boyce, 2002, Smithsonian

Mars: The Mystery Unfolds Peter Cattermole, 2001, Oxford

Magnificent Mars Ken Croswell, 2003, Free Press

A Traveler’s Guide to Mars William Hartmann, 2003, Workman

Mapping Mars Oliver Morton, 2002, Picador USA

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Mars: InformationWeb Portals http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Jet Propulsion Lab

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/marspage.html Goddard Space Flight Center

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/ European Space Agency

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/mars/ Resources for Integrating Mars Data across the Undergraduate

Curriculum

http://www.google.com/mars/ The Google mapping approach

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Mars: InformationMissions and Instruments

NASA Mars Global Surveyor MOC, MOLA, TES

NASA Mars Odyssey Themis, Gamma Ray Spectrometer

NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE, CRISM, MCS

ESA Mars Express HRSC, MARSIS

NASA Mars Exploration Rovers Pancams, spectrometers, grinding tools

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Mars: InformationJournals

Mars Journal Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Earth, Moon, and Planets Planetary and Space Science Icarus Space Science Reviews Science Nature

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Mars: InformationGeography of Mars Class Web Page

http://www.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/mars/

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Department of Geography California State University Long Beach, CA 90840-1101