AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Valles Marineris, Solar Wind, Maven

• School: UTSG
• Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Course: AST101H1
• Professor: Michael Reid

Document Summary

Solar wind stripping the atmosphere at 6 kg per minute. Geological activities on mars: volcanism, tectonics, olympus mons is the largest volcano system in the solar system. It is an extremely large mountain-shaped volcano (a lot larger than mt. Everest) with a crater-like impression at the center: plate tectonics existed on mars as evident by the valles marineris a large system of canyons. Vast canyons that stretch as wide as north america. Missions to mars: esa, since 2003, mars reconnaissance orbiter, since 2005, was able to photograph a dusty tornado. Evidence of an existing weather system on mars (a lot different than. Hematite is a mineral that is only formed in the presence of water, as on. Evidence of the presence of water on mars: curiosity, since 2012, first rover that had been deployed using aero-maneuvering and a parachute. A mix of co2 and h2o: photographed several riverbeds. Riverbeds are caused due to erosion by water.