Space Stats

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Space Stats

• Who studies space?
• What does studying space do for humans?
• Where do I sign up to study space?
• When is enough space studied?
• Why do we study space?
• How do we know what we know about space?

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Armageddon

• Who has seen the movie?
• What was it about?
• Where did the movie take place?
• When did oil drillers become astronauts?
• Why did you like the film?
• How did NASA know what they were up against and
  what to do about it?
• Video

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What other area do scientist study to learn about
our planet?

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• The ocean!

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DATA EVERYWHERE Earth meets standardized
tests DATA JOIDES DATA IODP ODP DATA
O-16 DATA DATA VCD DATA ODP DSDP
DATA DEQ DATA DATA CDs DATA O-18
As good as in the scholarship
fund
What do you notice about the data set?
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Deep Data
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Ocean Drilling Research
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)
2003 Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) 1985 Deep Sea
Drilling Project (DSDP) 1968
Revolutionized our view of Earth history and
global processes through ocean basin exploration.
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Ocean Drilling
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

• International marine research program
• explores Earths history and structure recorded
  in seafloor sediments and rocks
• Monitors sub seafloor environments
• Builds upon earlier successes of DSDP and ODP by
  using multiple drilling platforms

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JOIDES RESOLUTION
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Joint OceanographicInstitutions
forDeepEarthSampling
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six questions about the JR to help us get started
(DVD)

• Who
• What
• Where
• When
• Why
• How

Floating research facility
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Coring 160-973A-4H

• A core sample is a cylindrical section of a
  naturally occurring medium consistent enough to
  hold a layered structure.
• Specific terminology
• VCDs barrel sheets
• Smear slides
• Munsell soil color charts
• Photos

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oxygen isotope data

• Record found in cores
• Used to study climate change
• Ratio of the mass of oxygen with an atomic weight
  of 18 to the mass of oxygen with an atomic weight
  of 16
• Present in calcite of the oceanic floor as
  determined by core samples.

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Interesting finds of ocean drilling research

• K/T boundary meteorite impact mass extinction
• photographs/video
• trapped methane

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K/T boundary meteorite impact mass extinction

• Cretaceous-tertiary time period
• Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula
• Dinosaurs

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photographs/video

• Taken at extreme depths
• Subsequent observations of the same hole
• Ceasing of hydrothermal venting

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Trapped methane

• Natural gas
• Could supply U.S. for the next 100 years
• Frozen as gas hydrates in marine sediments