Winding Down

The meeting held today was one of the last times our group will gather before presenting our final presentation; most everyone was present. Today we furthered our research on our subject and continued finalize some of the slides on the powerpoint. Many of us looked for more images to better explain our hypothesis. Adam continued to work on the hypothesis. Clayton and Will worked hard on gathering their images. Ann finished her search for the images of frost on Mars, while Niamh worked on the powerpoint. Everyone is working hard and doing their part to prepare for the final presentation!

Nearing the Finish Line

As we start the last quarter of our school year. We are beginning to wind down our research for the MSIP project. Students have continued to work on their section of the project for the final presentation. We did take a break during Easter, but now are starting up again. So far my view of our project is a bit different from the students. I find that I'm enjoying watching them come to find that researching is very different from labs and other activities we normally do in class. Their frustration is evident when they are trying to find the RSL's in photos or even changes about the RSL's. But I try to tell them that even though we have our hypothesis our research might show it to be incorrect. Future research might have to go in a different direction. I think they are all starting to see what research is all about. As we continue to finish the project, students will start blogging about what they are finding and how they viewed the whole experience. So sit back and enjoy the results.

Thanks
Ms. Rip

Continuing Research

Each student worked hard to continue their research. I (Ann) continued to look for images of frost on the surface of Mars and matching up locations while Adam worked to compose the three hypotheses into one. Everyone added more details and pictures to the final powerpoint presentation for clear explanations and accurate information.                       

3/10/2016 (Morning)

Adam and Niamh changed the question and tightened it to a more persist question. Anne is trying to match a picture she found from the Venus lander to a location on Mars and farther looking for frost on the Mars surface. Will is spreading his slides out and is enlarging the pictures and slimming down his word count on each slide. Nicholas is looking for images and reviewing our changes. For the future in our next meeting next Tuesday or Thursday we will tighten up our information and we have just started a new powerpoint that we are working on also we will add  better pictures with more detail.

Starting Research

Thursday, February 26, 2016

Starting Research

Today we started to Research the locations of where we are going to search for Reccuring Slope Lineae, clouds, frost, and any other features that would lead to possible water on Mars. We are using JMARS to find the locations of the land forms that we are looking for on Mars. We are still experimenting with JMARS still trying to find out how we get certain pictures at the proper angle we want during the right time of day. We have been instructed to find our assigned land forms to study and find the absolute location on Mars and finding out which pictures we can use for the proper research.

Intoduction to Research

Today we downloaded a program, JMARS, which will help us research all of the information we need to prove our hypothesis. JMARS shows us clear pictures of the planet Mars and can help us to discover possible sightings of liquid water on Mars. To help us understand this website better, we watched tutorials on how to navigate everything on this program. The next couple of days, we are instructed to watch the tutorials to help us on the project because JMARS is complicated to navigate. Our sophomore instructor, Alex Longo, showed us a website where we can find THEMIS images with a web map that shows us day vs night on Mars. We will use the daytime maps because we are going to look at Mars during the day. 

Presentation at last.

Today we presented our presentation to NASA. A representative from NASA was the person we were presenting to she was giving us feedback on our presentation. Alex started the presentation with the question and what we wanted to get out of this project. Then Will talked about the background of the project secondly Adam talked about our hypothesis. Thirdly Niamh talked about the importance of his project and the importance of water for life on Mars.  Fourthly Kj and Grace talked about Experimental design and Ann talked about Data and Analysis along with Caroline and Nicholas. For the last part of the presentation Olivia and Alex talked about the conclusion to our project and our presentation. Lastly she asked us questions and gave us suggestions on many parts of our project and recommended we change the question and narrow down the question from How does liquid water form on Mars? To a more specific question about what we are looking for with RSL's etc.  She also recommended that we narrow our 3 hypotheses down to one. Which lead into her next questions if we have been into Jmars and looked around and  if we have gotten information or pictures off there. She then suggested that the easiest way for us to use infrared in Jmars is to use temperature. She then complimented us and asked us if we had questions for her. Mrs. Rip and Alex talked about Jmars and pictures of Mars.