In the Beginning....

Last tuesday, January 26th, we had our first meeting for our Mars Imaging Project. The students participating in the project read Alex Longo's proposal paper over the weekend and we spent the first fifteen minutes of our meeting discussing it with each other. After we were all relative sure what all the acronyms meant, we signed in to this blog and the google drive folder that is currently holding all of our information. Mrs. Ripollone passed out the "Welcome to the Mars Imaging Project" packet and from it we learned how to identify different types of geologic features on the surface of Mars. I personally found the Dust Devil Tracks interesting. It seems like someone took a fork or a knife and just started scouring the surface of the planet. Our scientific question developed out of a statement, "With the aid of the THEMIS camera, we will investigate the different phases in the formation of water on Mars." We eventually shortened it down to "How do the different states of water on Mars form." With the last few minutes left in our meeting, we were told that We will be presenting on February 11th.