Week 3

• Lecture 1.21: Evolution of the interior
• Lecture 1.22: Thermal spectroscopy and mineral identification
• Lecture 1.23: Geology from the Opportunity rover
• Lecture 1.24: Geochemistry from the Opportunity rover
• Lecture 1.25: Introduction to guest lectures
• Lecture 1.26: Mineralogy on Mars
• Lecture 1.27: Mineralogy on Mars (Part 2)
• Lecture 1.28: First results from Curiosity (Part 1)
• Lecture 1.29: First results from Curiosity
• Lecture 1.30: Where was the water on Mars?

Additional Reading

Lecture 1.21: Evolution of the interior

• Wikipedia has a nice discussion of dynamo theory.
• David Stevenson wrote a nice review on our theoretical understanding of the interior of Mars after the discovery of the crustal magnetism. Google Scholar will help you find a PDF.
• Jack Connerney summarizes the observations of crustal magnetism

Lecture 1.22: Thermal spectroscopy and mineral identification

• The web site for TES contains a wealth of information
• The original Christiansen et al. paper discussing the discover of hematite, requires, of course, a subscription. Google Scholar can help.

Lecture 1.23: Geology from Opportunity Rover

• Opportunity is still alive today and continuing to explore Meridiani Planum. You can follow along.
• The Grotzinger et al. paper provides vivid detail. The official version is here but a non-subscription version is available from a Google Scholar search.

Lecture 1.24: Geochemistry from Opportunity Rover

• The Grotzinger et al. paper above is still relevent
• A good discussion of Mossbauer spectroscopy can be found here
• The paper from Klingelhofer et al describing the first Mossbauer results on Mars is here (or try Google Scholar)

Lecture 1.25: Introduction of Guest Lecturers

• You can learn more about Prof. Ehlmann and Prof. Grotzinger from their websites.

Lectures 1.26 & 1.27: Mineralogy of Mars

• Much of the discussion from Prof. Ehlmann's lecture comes from her comprehensive review article. Currently this requires a subscription. We're seeing if we can get a non-subscription version to be made available.

Lecture 1.28 & 1.29: Results from the Curiosity Rover

• Wikipedia contains a nice overview of the Curiosity Rover mission
• The official site from NASA contains up-to-the-minute information and all of the latest images that you can download and play with.
• Curiosity tweets, as does its sarcastic doppelganger
• An updated list of the key science papers from the Curiosity science team can be found here.
• Prof. Grotzinger's lecture is largely based on this paper, for which a free version can be found here.

Lecture 1.30: Where is the water on Mars

• Strangely, Water on Mars has its own Wikipedia page, which is a bit disorganized, but otherwise OK.
• Michael Carr has an excellent 2012 review on the fluvial history of Mars. A non-subscription version is available through ResearchGate. It will ask you to join, but you don't need to. Just press "view" (thanks to Charles King for tracking this down!)