Don't Panic Geocast

This week we talk about water on Mars and aeroelastic flutter of bird wings. John got married with drones and garter cannons. Keep an eye on his Twitter feed for more videos soon. We have a GSA poster and AGU Talk! Mars Mars facts from NASA Mars Cultural Fascination The Martian Way Seveneves The Martian Elon Musk Bio Water on mars Recurring Slope Linea (RSL), identified in 2011 by Lujendra Ojha (then student, now at Georgia Institute of Technology) Great pictures of RSLs Recurring slope lineae in equatorial regions of Mars (Nature Geoscience) HiRISE observations of Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) during southern summer on Mars (Icarus) Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site (Science) Phoenix Lander *Spectral evidence for hydrated salts in recurring slope lineae on Mars (Nature Geoscience) Fun Paper Friday Clark, C. J., Elias, D. O., & Prum, R. O. (2011). Aeroelastic flutter produces hummingbird feather songs. Science, 333(6048), 1430–1433. http://doi.o