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Planetary Geology. Should Humans Be in Space? It’s Not Like We Have a Choice.

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1 Planetary Geology

2 Should Humans Be in Space?

3 It’s Not Like We Have a Choice

4 Why Not Just Use A Telescope?

5 Himalayas from Space Shuttle

6 “You Can’t See Borders From Space”

7 Landsat View of Green Bay

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9 Spy Satellite Views of Soviet Aircraft Carrier

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11 World Trade Center, September 11, 2001

12 Aurora From Space

13 Impacts on Earth

14 Recent Impact – Meteor Crater

15 Manicouagan, Quebec

16 Sudbury, An Ancient Impact Site

17 A Shatter Cone

18 Fallback Breccia

19 Bessel: A Simple Crater

20 Ejecta around Timocharis

21 Tycho: A Central- Peak Crater

22 How Central Peaks Form

23 Upheaval Dome, Utah

24 Schrodinger: A Peak-Ring Crater

25 Mare Orientale A Multiple-Ring Impact Basin

26 Craters and Planetary History Superposition Crater Saturation Crater Degradation

27 Superposition

28 Crater Saturation

29 Crater Degradation

30 Mega-Impacts

31 Computer Simulations by H.J. Melosh (University of Arizona)

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33 The Inner Planets

34 Mercury from Mariner 10, 1974

35 Caloris Basin, Mercury

36 Snowball in Hell: Ice on Mercury

37 Ice in Mercury’s Polar Craters

38 We’re Ba-a-a-ck

39 Venus

40 Topography of Venus

41 Radar Map of Venus

42 Surface of Venus

43 Venus has Craters

44 Venus is Volcanic

45 “Pancake” Volcanoes

46 Mars

47 Landing on Mars

48 The Real Face of Mars

49 Mars from Pathfinder

50 Sojourner

51 Vallis Marineris

52 Martian Landslide

53 Olympus Mons

54 Mars’ Polar Caps

55 Dunes on Mars

56 Ancient Floods on Mars

57 A Rampart Crater

58 Recent Water on Mars?

59 Layered Rocks on Mars

60 Martian Meteorite

61 Martian Fossils ?

62 Deimos and Phobos


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