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The Bear Fight Center, Winthrop WA, offers the opportunity for one to three high school students to work with professional planetary scientists to treat meaningful and specific research topics that could result in publishable articles in professional journals. A topic of current interest is the detection and tracking of dust storms on Mars using the current Mars Express Orbiter Mission’s High Resolution Stereo Camera data with the Center’s scientists. The storms can be detected using the Center’s techniques better than previously possible and the need now is to search existing data and describe the storms that have occurred. The results will help in understanding the planet’s weather systems and the effects of wind erosion on the surface. A second topic concerns the Moon’s surface and a new space mission the government of India is about to launch (on which the BFC is an investigator). Our task is to locate as many fresh craters on the lunar surface using previous space mission data in order to sample the subsurface mineralogy. Other topics exist. The student(s) would be trained in the use of the detection and tracking techniques and use the Center’s facilities under the guidance of scientists. In the process, student(s) would gain experience in a professional science environment.

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