Training Graduate Students for Future Mars Missions

Details Training Graduate Students for Future Mars Missions Training Graduate Students for Future Mars Missions

Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..915m&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 915

Mathematics

Logic

Education, Mars Pathfinder, Mars: Geology

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With the loss of Mars Observer in 1993, the planetary community not only lost the new influx of scientific data from the various instruments, but also enthusiasm was lost by graduate students in the Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program for martian research. As a result, the long-term (10-20 years) health of Mars exploration was unavoidably placed "at risk" because fewer of the next generation of planetary scientists were finding Mars an interesting topic. With 18 year old Viking data, graduate courses in the Geology of Mars at the University of Hawaii (UH) were becoming less motivating as most of the significant geologic research is now 5-10 years old. At UH, the Geology of Mars is taught as a 3-credit graduate course every 3 years, most recently in the Fall 1995 semester. Instead of relying on one of several fine standard Mars texts, this time a new approach was attempted to not only to sustain interest in Mars, but also to prepare senior students for participation in Mars Pathfinder-type missions. The course was also designed to give the students experience in peer-review and debate of key mission objectives. The framework for this course is described here in the hope that other university faculty may find some of the ideas of value to their own Mars courses.

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