HONR289V

Exploring Mars

Time: M 2:00-4:30, Spring 2019
Room: ATL 0201
Prof: Doug Hamilton

Class Organization

• Prof's Office Hours (in PSC 1153): Drop by Anytime!
• Course Description
• Lecture Schedule
• Assignments
• Course Textbooks
  
• Full Syllabus
  
• Get Class Slides
• What's My Grade Right Now?
• CourseEvalUM. Please help improve Mars Class!
  
• TERPS 2019 Mars Symposium
  

Useful Websites

• Jan. 28 Class:
• Feb. 4 Class: Wikipedia: Exploration of Mars. Read up through Mariner 9 and follow and read links for each of these spacecraft.
  
• Feb. 11 Class: Measuring Gravity on Mars.
  
• Feb. 18 Class: Opportunity Lost.
• Feb. 25 Class: Evidence of Underground Magma on Mars
• Mar. 4 Class: 2017 Sky and Telescope Article: Curiosity Update       Seven Minutes of Terror       Collision Calculator
• Mar. 11 Class: Martian Ice Mound       Life on Mars? (check out the figures)
• Mar. 18 Spring Break!
• Mar. 25 Class:
• Apr. 1 Class: Sky and Telescope Article: The Race to Mars
• Apr. 8 Class: Helicopter on Mars!       Solar Eclipse on Mars (go to April 5) .
• Apr. 15 Class: Ancient Ocean shorelines on Mars?
• Apr. 22 Class:
• Apr. 29 Class: Why Mars?
• May 6 Class: A different view on Terraforming Mars (it is long - just skim through the interesting parts).       Insight: Possible Marsquake!
• May 13 Class: Mars in Retrograde Analysis by the Planetary Society (Optional. Discusses the future of robotic Mars missions).

Go to Doug Hamilton's Home Page