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Brief Summary
The participants undertake a crater search survey on earth utilizing Google Earth© imagery. Promising structures will be investigated in greater detail. In an oral presentation the students introduce to their projects and assess the likelihood of the discovered structures being impact craters. Students will plan a scientific expedition to their discovered structures. If one of the structures justifies a further scientific analysis, a real expedition is organized and conducted with the involvement of students.
Scientific Goals and Workflow
Structure of presentation
The participants undertake a crater search survey on earth utilizing Google Earth© imagery. Promising structures will be investigated in greater detail. In an oral presentation the students introduce to their projects and assess the likelihood of the discovered structures being impact craters. Students will plan a scientific expedition to their discovered structures. If one of the structures justifies a further scientific analysis, a real expedition is organized and conducted with the involvement of students.
Scientific Goals and Workflow
- Recapitulate various aspects of gesciences to understand landscape formation
sedimentology, structural geology, geomorphology, soil science, climate, vegetation, etc. - Getting acquainted with impact crater research
- Become experienced in remote sensing techniques
- Improve your skills in the field (field mapping, sample acquisition)
- Excercise in surface analysis considering all aspects of landscape formation
- Plan and conduct your own project
- Improve your skills in scientific presentations
- Defend your ideas and debate scientifically
- Make decisions
- Prepare the logisitcs for an expedition
- Check your qualities as a team member
- Discovery of new terrestrial impact craters
- Help to complete the terrestrial impact record
Structure of presentation
- Define your study area
- Explain your choice
- Detail your survey (observation distance, coverage, bin overlap, time for each frame)
- Give a political, geomorphological and regional geological overview of the study area
- Present your structures of interest (1-5) including additional recherched data (geological, geophysical, remote sensing data, literature)
- Defend your impact hypothesis! List the Pros and Contras
- Make a ranking list and present plans for an expedition to your no.1 structure (consider political issues, transportation, climate, time and period of stay, permits, risks, etc. and the scientific plan of investigation)
