A professor at IUP has been part of a team that has been building an atlas of the planet Mars.
Planetary scientist and educator Dr. Kenneth Coles, part of IUP’s Geoscience department, has been working with Dr. Kenneth L. Tanaka of the US Geological Survey’s Astrogeology team and Dr. Phillip Christiansen of Arizona State University in creating “The Atlas of Mars: Mapping Its Geography and Geology,” which was released in England in August and in the United States in October. It is an update of the last atlas created by NASA in 1979. The book covers the red planet with 30 charts and topographic maps, a daytime infrared map, a geologic map, and information on Mars’ global characteristics.
Coles worked on the project during a sabbatical from IUP. Along with his coursework, Coles is the director of the IUP planetarium.
