Science Question:
What is the difference between the ejecta of two craters of relatively the same size, but one is on a lava flow and one is not?

Main Results:
1) The ejecta pattern may have been affected by water below the surface. There were many variables that affected the ejecta pattern. One might be the angle of the impactor and the velocity of the impactor. The impactor could be the same size and velocity but the substances it impacted could differ.

2) We thought that the ejecta would be greater on the lava flow, but instead it was greater off the lava because the lava is made of basalt, pure rock.

3)The reason why we found smaller ejecta on the lava flow is because the lava flow is a harder surface to penetrate and to create ejecta.

Thursday's Final Report

Extra Comments:
1) Our MARS project has been wonderful! Learning about craters, gullies, and so on, has been a thing we couldn’t experience anywhere else. Looking for and putting craters on paper has been awesome. Thank you ASU!

2) I experienced what most children don’t, taking an actual photo of Mars with the THEMIS camera. I also learned how to enter data to pinpoint the location of our picture.