Education And Public Outreach With MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).

The HiRISE team is planning an innovative education and public outreach program with a variety of formal and informal educational activities. These include educator workshops, large-scale displays of HiRISE images at museums and planetariums, and opportunities for students and the general public to suggest HiRISE image observations and to participate in data analysis via the internet. Additionally, HiRISE team members have committed to spending at least 5% of their time in outreach activities and to coordinating local EP/O activities in their regions. The centerpiece of the E/PO program is HiRISE's interactive website called HiWeb (http://marsoweb.nasa.nasa.gov/hirise). HiRISE's public website will provide user-friendly web tools for students, team members, and the general public to suggest target locations for HiRISE imaging. HiWeb will provide interactive viewing and analysis of HiRISE images in context with other available Mars data. Web events, involving participation by team members, will inform students and interested members of the public of HiRISE capabilities and science goals and provide support for submitting good image suggestions. Curriculum modules and activities will focus on Mars geology, the image suggestion process and working with digital image data. We will also provide online opportunities for student and public participation in data analysis to create databases of geologic features (gullies, boulders, craters, wind streaks, etc.) present in the HiRISE images. Educator workshops will be held each year at or near the institution of HiRISE team members. Workshop background materials and instructions for all hands-on activities will be placed on HiWeb to facilitate sharing of information with other educators and the general public.