As a first-year master’s student in the Department of Earth Sciences, Katherine Lutz became fascinated by satellite images of Mars that showed spiraling shapes swirling across the planet’s polar ice caps. As a first-year master’s student in the Department of Earth Sciences, Katherine Lutz became fascinated by satellite images of Mars that showed spiraling shapes swirling across the planet’s polar ice caps. Planetary Sciences Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories