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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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