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Episode 413 - Eli Braden

Probably Science

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Mars Ice Ages Lucky Debris

Researchers used images of 45 glaciers from nasa's mars reconnaissance orbiter spacecraft for their study. The cameras on mro are powerful powerful with a resolution down to 25 centimeters per pixel. 10 colgate students assisted levi by counting and measuring larger rocks seen in the images about 60,000 altogether They said they did a kind of virtual field work walking up and down these glaciers and mapping the boulders Levi had expected to see the boulders distributed by size, but that's not what the images showed instead.

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