Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars

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Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars
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Landing Sites for Spirit and Opportunity

• Spirit Gusev crater, crater with water flows
• Opportunity Meridianum Plani reflectance
  spectra of hematite

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Spirit on Mars
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Spirit in the Columbia Hills
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Opportunity LandingBedrock
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Rocks at Opportunity Landing Site Show Evidence
of Water
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Opportunity at Endurance Craterold bedrock
formations
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The Jovian planetswhere are they?
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The Jovian planetswhere are they?
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Sizes of the Jovian planets
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What do they look like? -Jupiter
Band structures visible in small telescopes
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Jupiter closeup of cloud structures
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Saturn
Cloud bands and the ring
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Saturn up closeatmosphere and rings
Picture from the Cassini spacecraftmore about
the ring later
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The atmosphere of Saturn
Also evidence of cloud bands. We see the top of
the atmospherebut what kind of atmosphere?
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The spectrum of Jupiterclue to its composition