About Me

I am a recently, 2021, retired High School Physics,

Geoscience, and STEM teacher after 30 years of teaching.

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I have used all of these JMARS tools with fascination over the last several years as JMARS has evolved.

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I developed this website and keep directions for its use up to date so students, teachers, researchers and other curious people can access and explore imaged data from Mars and other planetary objects using an intuitive platform called JMARS without having to master high tech skills or memorize/remember the "how-tos".  Follow your curiosity into the vast imagery of planetary science with JMARS.

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People can often can use what they already know about Earth’s geology and principles to answer their own questions about Mars and other planetary objects. 
 

For example, teachers may ask students to discover “Mars's Story” after a unit on geology or geography. Students can zoom into Mars, and other planetary objects. They can use tools to uncover what the surface is like and unravel its story. For example: Are there any features that look like glaciers, catastrophic floods, fans or deltas, volcanoes, craters, water ways, faults, valleys, or dunes? Are there signs of processes such as erosion, weathering, sedimentation, slopes that controlled valley patterns? Are there examples of geologic principles, such as which features and events happened first?
 

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As described on the JMARS website https://jmars.asu.edu/ 

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"JMARS is an acronym that stands for Java Mission-planning and Analysis for Remote Sensing. It is a geospatial information system (GIS) developed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility to provide mission planning and data-analysis tools to NASA scientists, instrument team members, students of all ages and the general public. JMARS has been available to the public since 2003. It is used in over 65 countries and has over 6,000 active users." 

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Accessibility Statement: The level of accessibility of this website is limited due to the website's purpose to utilize and collect data from JMARS images. Alt text is attached to most images. Color contrast has been adjusted. Future accessibility improvements may be linked to future developed accessibility technology to the extent the author has the ability to implement them.

 

 

Questions? comments? need help? email me,  Mrs. Jackie Kane, at usingrs@gmail.com  

 

 

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