Martian Flight-Seeing
The ESA, European Space Agency, recently released a short 5 minute video of a fly over of the Hebes Chasma, a canyon lying along the Martian equator near the Mariner Valley. This canyon is around...
View ArticleInSight Into the Red Planet
Click on image to download a bookmark. InSight or Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is the next NASA planned mission to Mars. Set for launch in March...
View ArticleRock On
Landsat Image of Mt. St. Helens – Sep. 1980 Whether you are a teacher of Earth Sciences, a ‘closet’ Geomorphologist like me, or one who is interested in the Earth, then you will probably agree that...
View ArticleA Song For My Science Class
One of my college classes is Physical Science, which is essentially a general science course covering Physics, Chemistry, Earth science, and Astronomy. Part of the class, 10% of the grade, is from...
View ArticleTweets From ISS
If you have followed my postings you know that I am an avid fan of watching for the International Space Station passages over my part of the world. I especially enjoy capturing the ISS as it travels...
View ArticleAn EarthKam Mission
This coming week, the last one in January, is going to help make this month a more memorable month than I had previously thought. How so? Firstly January marks my 200th monthly column of Scope on...
View ArticleNSTA @ Nashville
I’m in Nashville Tennessee for the next several days at the NSTA national conference. Planets and stars will still be in the skies but not as easy to see from downtown Nashville as it is where I...
View ArticleA Trail of 2 Geologies
The Desert Is Calling! All trails lead west, or south, or anywhere but here. I am heading to Arizona for some latitude adjustment. Hiking, bouldering, and enjoying the desert/mountain Geology of...
View Article3 Days – 3 Trails
This past week I was in the Phoenix Arizona area enjoying some unusually cooler weather and the mountain and desert scenery. My goal was to hike as many days as possible until the weather got too...
View ArticleBirds of Galveston Island
I like to hike and especially the higher the hike (not me!) the happier I seem to be. Less O2, or something in the way I am wired! I don’t know, but this past week my wife and I were at sea-level...
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