Mars: Candor Chasma
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Browse Full-length Non-member Titles“Mars: Candor Chasma” explores how the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals Mars’s geologic history through stereo imaging, topography, and mineral analysis. The video examines Candor Chasma, a branch of a vast canyon system, highlighting layers, buttes, mesas, fault systems, and evidence of marsquakes to explain canyon formation, sediment filling, and erosion. It also investigates signs of ancient water at Mojave Crater, where channels and terraces suggest rainfall rather than underground springs. In Nili Fossae, false-color imagery identifies carbonates and other mineral signatures, showing diverse water environments and possible conditions that could have supported or preserved evidence of past life. This space science resource supports curriculum topics in planetary geology, remote sensing, surface processes, and astrobiology.
Media Details
Runtime: 4 minutes, 9 seconds
- Topic: Science
- Subtopic: Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Geology, Science Methods, Space Sciences
- Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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- Release Year: 2017
- Producer/Distributor: PBS Learning Media
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