What will MESDT teams be doing using the CRISM data?
CRISM divides Mars up into 1964 tiles. For MESDT, each team will be responsible for one of these tiles. As the spacecraft orbits Mars, it scans the surface in low resolution (100-200 meters per pixel). This “Multispectral Mode” or “push broom mode” (named push broom because CRISM is imaging the surface as it orbits Mars), is the mode that students will be using to image the surface. This Multispectral Data Set is what the teams will start with (this is the same way the science team starts its progression through the CRISM data). This mode also allows us to identify the locations on the planet that are of interest of us, but are of a coarser resolution. But this will allow us to go back and image those areas of interest in the “Hyperspectral” or “targeted” mode to obtain more comprehensive information of that area. So, the teams will be (1) evaluating some of the data products derived from the multispectral mode, and (2) identify areas where a targeted observation has the potential to s
