The 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy (LPSA) interns and trip leaders: Back Row (from L to R): Nicole Thom (Staff Assistant), Tanner Hamann, Sebastian Fischer, Margaret Marvin, Adarsh Dave, Chet Gnegy, Aaron Silver (Staff Assistant), Nicholas Perlongo. Next Row (from L to R): Hayley Williamson, Allison Duh, John Gemperline, Antonio Aguirre, Rachel Kronyak, Alisa Bochnowski, Jillian Votava, Lily Mannoia, Jordan Hildebrandt, Melissa Gaddy, Matthew Rice, Breanna Branham, Matthew Wyatt. Front row (from L to R): Dr. Charles Schultz, Dr. Patrick Burkhart, Ryan Jackson, Zachary Hutcheson, A
The 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy (LPSA) interns and trip leaders: Back Row (from L to R): Nicole Thom (Staff Assistant), Tanner Hamann, Sebastian Fischer, Margaret Marvin, Adarsh Dave, Chet Gnegy, Aaron Silver (Staff Assistant), Nicholas Perlongo. Next Row (from L to R): Hayley Williamson, Allison Duh, John Gemperline, Antonio Aguirre, Rachel Kronyak, Alisa Bochnowski, Jillian Votava, Lily Mannoia, Jordan Hildebrandt, Melissa Gaddy, Matthew Rice, Breanna Branham, Matthew Wyatt. Front row (from L to R): Dr. Charles Schultz, Dr. Patrick Burkhart, Ryan Jackson, Zachary Hutcheson, April Frake, Rose Perea, Kyle Leaf, Amber Keske, Avinash Misra. Front center (crouching or leaning): Dr. James Rice (Leader), Dr. Shawn Wright (Leader), Dr. Ann Parsons (Leader), Andrew Ryan (2011 LPSA Staff Assistant). Not pictured: Dr. Cynthia Cheung (LPSA Principal Investigator). Credit: NASA/GSFC/April Frake ------ Almost Mars In the Grand Canyon, NASA Goddard interns experience a little Mars on Earth. When NASA's Curiosity rover sent back its first pictures of Mount Sharp on Mars, the resemblance to Earth's Grand Canyon was striking. The sculpted landscape at the base of Mount Sharp is filled with buttes, mesas and hills, their thick layers prominent even from a distance. The two terrains are similar enough, geologically speaking, that planetary scientists can use the Grand Canyon as an analog—a site where they can do field work to help understand the history of Mars. Those similarities drew the interns of the 2012 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy (LPSA) to Arizona to do field work in the Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater and other Mars analog sites. LPSA is a summer internship in planetary science run by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Highlights from the "Great Crater [and Canyon] Adventure" are presented in this slideshow and in the trip blog at By Elizabeth Zubritsky and Claire Saravia
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