EventScope

The EventScope group at CMU has been providing content for our Vision Stations for the last 18 months or so. Their Education manager Ron McCloskey creates a set of 5 planetary geology lessions each week which step through different sections of the 3D terrain imaged by the Mars Odyessy orbiter. Right now these lessons are running on two Vision Stations (one for even weeks, one for odd week)

The most recent weeks lessons have to do with images taken in late April of the Kasei Valles region of Mars. Some of the cool things in these lessons are "multidepth chanels" where the different levels of the channels indicate that there were different episodes of flooding, there are also regions where material is falling from the steep chanel walls and spreading out into into alluvial fans, and one region where half of a large crater wall has collapsed into one of the outflow channels.

Eventhough these lessons are best viewed in the immersive Vision Stations at the Planetarium you can still download EventScope on your computer and follow along with the lesons at home.