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MSIP team led by Charles Lindgren

Teacher Name: Charles Lindgren
School Name: Gates Intermediate
Grade Level: 6 - 8
City: Scituate
State: MA
Country: USA

Science Question:
Is it possible to detect a difference in the age of a very young lava flow, 20 million years, on Mars, and a very old lava flow, 3.8 billion years, on our Moon by counting the number of craters?
Main Results:
According to the crater counts, we were unable to assume that the Sea of Tranquility was that much older that Elysium Mons.

Download the final report.


Extra Comments:
Area Name: Elysium Mons
Latitude (N): 26
Longitude (E): 141
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THEMIS context image
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Students' THEMIS image
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