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ASU Professors Excited About CHA Student Mars Find
"A learning opportunity like this doesn't usually present itself until Graduate School", remarked CHA parent, Orin Green
Our amazing CHA Science Seminar students made an historic trip to Arizona State University recently to spend a few days writing a presentation based on their study of the sand geysers on Mars. They examined archived images previously taken of similar areas on Mars over a period of 10 years that the Odyssey spacecraft has taken while in orbit around Mars. From these and our own photos, they analyzed the pictures for states of eruption to determine if there is a pattern to the time and location to these geysers.
Our students collected and graphed their data and determined that there appears to be a slight trend toward earlier eruptions each year. They created their own PowerPoint presentation about their process of investigation and presented their findings to several scientists currently researching Martian geysers.
Finally, they were quizzed by the scientific panel about their presentation. The whole process lead to new questions with the possibility of new research to be done. Our students did an amazing job and will put together a final report to send to ASU. Once that is accomplished, each student will receive a large copy of our images of Mars.
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