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How Can We Come to Understand MARS?

Explore the Martian landscape, from Olympus Mons to Valles Marineris, to decipher the mysteries of cause and effect on Mars. Analyze images and geological features to unravel the planet's history. Delve into the observation data from Spirit and Opportunity rovers. Unravel the question of water presence and strange surface plates. Discover the forces at play in the Red Planet's evolution.

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How Can We Come to Understand MARS?

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  1. How Can We Come to Understand MARS?

  2. How do we come to really understand something?? • What am I looking at? What is it? • How did it get there? What events resulted in it being there? • This is the idea of cause and effect. • What do you need in order to be sure that one thing caused another thing to happen?

  3. What Spirit sees

  4. What Opportunity Sees

  5. Which is which?

  6. Olympus Mons:The Largest Volcano in the Solar System

  7. Smaller volcanoes on the Tharis Bulge

  8. Valles Marineris

  9. Compare these images of the North Pole of Mars

  10. South Pole of Mars

  11. Compare the two images of the regions at the South Pole of Mars

  12. Where's the water today?

  13. Strange Plates on surface near the equator on Mars

  14. What is the Key to Discovering Cause & Effect ? • Could one effect actually cause the other? Is it possible when you consider forces required? • Is the time order correct? Did one thing happen before another?

  15. Where are the Outflows and the Tributaries

  16. Olympus Mons

  17. On the slope of Olympus Mons

  18. Outflow region

  19. Gustav Crater (where Spirit is)

  20. So how can we figure out Cause and Effect on Mars???

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