(Lecture) Monday, 9am-9:50am BO 125, (Lab) Wed, 3pm-4:50pm
Lecture mid-term 15%
Lecture final 20%
Landing Site Proposal 20%
The quizzes will be held in the last 25 minutes of class, and I will let everyone know the subject the class period before.
Review sheets for the lecture midterm and final will be passed out the class period before the exam. Each will include a combination of multiple choice, short answer, and essay-style questions.
In this class, the following numerical equivalents for grades are used: A = 100-90% | B = 89-80% | C = 79-70% | D = 69-60% | F = 59-0%.
Field Trip: We will be taking a field trip to Houston Texas with the following schedule:
April 24: Lunar and Planetary Institute, Dr. Seth Shostak, SETI Institute
April 25: Johnson Space Center
Rover Landing Site Proposal:
In addition to books and research journals, the following organizations are approved web sources:
Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union
Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Centre national d'études spatiales French National Centre of Space
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., (German: abbreviated DLR), the German Aerospace Center
European Space Agency (ESA).
Russian Federal Space Agency B
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO),
Israel Space Agency (ISA),
Italian Space Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
NASA: Considerable number of research groups, including the JPL, GSFC, Ames.
National Space Organization (Republic of China in Taiwan).
UK Space Agency (UKSA).
Brown University Planetary Geosciences Group
Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Florida Institute of Technology's Department of Physics and Space Sciences
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Lunar and Planetary Institute
MIT Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Open University Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute
Planetary Science Institute
UCLA Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Lab
University of California Santa Cruz's Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
University of Hawaii's Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
University of Copenhagen's Center for Planetary Research
University of Central Florida Planetary Sciences Group
University of British Columbia Institute for Planetary Science
University of Western Ontario's Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration
University of Tennessee Planetary Geoscience
University of Colorado's Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
Research journals: e.g., Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Icarus etc.
Illustrations should be included where appropriate and may be photocopied or scanned directly from a scientific journal or text book. However, the source of the information should be indicated in the figure caption (e.g. from Jones, 2001). You may also use images from the web, but include the site information.
Length. The text (excluding title page and references) of the essay should be 4-6 pages (double spaced) in length; 12 point font; margins should be 1 inch. There is no limit on the number of illustrations.
Check that your proposal is free from basic grammatical, spelling and typographic errors before handing it in.
Proposal Grading. Grading is based on: content (10 pts), style and organization (8 pts) and references/citation (7 pts).
For all assignments, the late penalty is 5% per
working day (25% per week). No assignments will be accepted after Wednesday of finals week.
Attendance is required for both lecture and lab. Absences can only be excused by contacting me in advance, prior to lecture or laboratory assignments. Absences presented after the class is over will not be accommodated except in rare circumstances. I reserve the right to drop any student from the class who has more than 3 unexcused absences. Attendance will be used to make decisions on the final grade score of students who are on the border between two letter grades.