TES News

May 1995, Volume 4, No. 2


Thermal Emission Spectrometer Project
Mars Global Surveyor Space Flight Facility
Department of Geology, Arizona State University
Box 871404, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404, U.S.A.

Northern Springtime on Mars, February 1995. This view of Mars was taken from 65 million miles away by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows the north polar cap (top) and Acidalia Planitia (dark, upper center). The planned July 1997 landing site for Mars Pathfinder is indicated by the asterisk (*), the Viking 1 landing site of 1976 is at the "X." Photo credit: Philip James (Univ. of Toledo, Ohio), Steven Lee (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), and NASA / Hubble Space Telescope.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Progress on MGS TES by Greg Mehall
Mars Pathfinder Wind Sock Update by Ken Edgett
Example of what TES will do: Thermal Infrared Spectroscopy of Pyroxene Minerals by Vicky Hamilton
Mars K-12 Education News
- August 1995 Teacher Workshop
  - Announcement and Registration
  - Description and Information (includes Galileo Jupiter!)
- Summer 1995 Student Visits
- Red Rover Student Project by The Planetary Society
- Recent Mars Reading Material

Mars Global Surveyor POG (available from NASA/JPL)

Edited by: K.S. Edgett

Original Text: 21 April 1995

Hypertext: 7 May 1995



TES News is published quarterly by the 
Arizona Mars K-12 Education Program.  
It is also available on the World Wide Web 
at  http://tes.asu.edu/tesnews_info.html. 
Printing supported by NASA Grants NAGW 943, 
NAGW 3923 and JPL Contracts 960112, 960235.