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1 Mission to Mars What to look for when you get there A Collection of Basic Earth Analogs

2 Liquid Water?

3 What about water? Necessary for life as we know it. It also does the jobs of rock weathering (breaking down/decomposition) and erosion (transports weathered grains/pebbles/boulders a distance from weathering site. How to look for it without having to do surface chemistry? That’s what this lab is all about.

4 Prospecting for H 2 O Look for flat areas large and small.

5 Prospecting for H 2 O Look for dried up riverbeds

6 Dried Riverbed

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8 Canyon

9 Buttes

10 Plains

11 Mountains

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13 Craters

14

15 Gullies

16 Volcanoes: Composite

17 Volcanoes: Shield

18 Shield Volcano

19 aa lava flow

20 Pahoehoe Lava Flow

21 Aeolian Features – Sand Dunes

22 Aeolian Features (Wind) Sand Dunes from Orbit

23 Aeolian: Dust Storm from Orbit

24 Polar Ice Cap - Antarctica

25 Fault Line

26 Fault

27 Fault from the ground

28 Sedimentary Rock Strata

29 Ridge

30 Ridges

31 Cirrus Clouds


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