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Mission to Mars What to look for when you get there A Collection of Basic Earth Analogs
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Liquid Water?
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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.
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Prospecting for H 2 O Look for flat areas large and small.
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Prospecting for H 2 O Look for dried up riverbeds
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Dried Riverbed
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Canyon
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Buttes
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Plains
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Mountains
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Craters
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Gullies
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Volcanoes: Composite
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Volcanoes: Shield
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Shield Volcano
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aa lava flow
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Pahoehoe Lava Flow
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Aeolian Features – Sand Dunes
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Aeolian Features (Wind) Sand Dunes from Orbit
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Aeolian: Dust Storm from Orbit
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Polar Ice Cap - Antarctica
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Fault Line
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Fault
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Fault from the ground
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Sedimentary Rock Strata
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Ridge
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Ridges
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Cirrus Clouds
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