Mosaic Postcards from Mercury

Keri HallauMontana State University

• Update: Where are we now and where are we going?

• Using MPCS: What have we seen and done so far?

• Share-out: How do you use them? What do you suggest for the future?

Update: MPCs for print• Renoir/Peak Ring Basin

card complete– Printed cards– On internal ‘sciteam’ page– Coming to interactive

‘print’ page soon

• Rembrandt/Impact Basin card complete– Printed cards– On internal ‘sciteam’ page– Coming to interactive

‘print’ page soon!

• Many drafts in progress…

Update: stay tuned for…• Water ice (2)• Solar sailing• Caloris basin (2)• Graben• Hollows• Orbital mechanics• Elliptical orbit• Magnetosphere• Magnetic tornadoes• Core• Pantheon Fossae• B-view versions of existing topics

Update: view B, interactive ‘print side’!

Using MPCs: Puzzle• Puzzles (a-view and b-

view now (Thanks Heather!))– Page with tips and tricks– Use image of Mercury

(with arrows/labels) for a-view

– On this list for b-view*

• Vision of Discovery workshop-without-walls– On small piece of paper draw a named feature on

Mercury using pastels– Attach to blank MPC template– Research artist forwhich it is named andfeature itself and fill inblank MPC

Using MPCs: Art and Science

• Students create and MPC about their “trip to Mercury”– Research features using the MPC site and gallery– Tape cards to blank grid and display

Using MPCs: My visit from Mercury

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