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Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars

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1 Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars

2 Landing Sites for “Spirit” and “Opportunity”
Spirit: Gusev crater, crater with water flows Opportunity: Meridianum Plani: reflectance spectra of hematite

3 Spirit on Mars

4 Spirit in the Columbia Hills

5 Opportunity Landing…Bedrock

6 Rocks at Opportunity Landing Site Show Evidence of Water

7 Opportunity at Endurance Crater…old bedrock formations

8 The Jovian planets…where are they?

9 The Jovian planets…where are they?

10 Sizes of the Jovian planets

11 What do they look like? -Jupiter
Band structures visible in small telescopes

12 Jupiter: closeup of cloud structures

13 Saturn Cloud bands and the ring

14 Saturn up close…atmosphere and rings
Picture from the Cassini spacecraft…more about the ring later

15 The atmosphere of Saturn
Also evidence of cloud bands…. We see the top of the atmosphere…but what kind of atmosphere?

16 The spectrum of Jupiter…clue to its composition


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