Lpsc Abstracts For Cassini |
Lpsc Abstracts For Cassini |
Jan 31 2006, 11:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Abstracts for the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference next month are now available (thanks to Alex for the alert). They are available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006. I have yet to browse through them, but I intend to do so soon (browsing the web on a Palm does have its disadvantages...).
My abstract is "Equatorial Faculae on Titan: Distribution and Orientation" with Alfred McEwen, Zibi Turtle, Stephanie Fussner, and Cassini ISS Team. I don't have a link yet, but just search for J.E. Perry in the author list. Look for an abstract in the Saturn system (or something like that) poster session. If you read carefully, you will note that I could resist interpreting one of our faculae as a cryovolcano (hey, if VIMS can have a squiggly bright feature called a cryovolcano, why can't we). -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Feb 1 2006, 12:04 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Can I just editorialize on a general LPSC planning problem...look at the schedule for Wednesday afternoon. There are concurrent sessions on:
Spirit and Opportunity results Saturn satellites and rings results Deep Impact results ALL AT ONCE!! What the heck am I going to do?? --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Feb 1 2006, 01:03 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
hmmm, cloning?
BTW, the link to my abstract is http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2170.pdf -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Feb 1 2006, 01:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
If cloning doesn't work, how about renting a couple of video cameras and conscripting two people? (Since I won't be there, I can safely suggest this course of action without becoming one of them.)
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Feb 1 2006, 02:42 AM
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Huzzah! Sifting through those should shut me up for about two weeks (much to Alex's pleasure...)
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Feb 1 2006, 02:47 AM
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Emily, what I do in a similar situation at DPS meetings is to leave my tape recorder running in one lecture room while I dash into another one to attend a second lecture in person. This leads to occasional peculiar looks, but it also allows you to take in a good deal more information than you would otherwise (and, so far, it hasn't led to my tape recorder being stolen, scientists being ascetic types).
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Feb 1 2006, 02:56 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10226 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Best LPSC ... Everrr! But for the reason mentioned by Emily, also the worst. Alas, I will not be there this year.
Phl -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Feb 1 2006, 03:45 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Well, Emily -- a partial solution would be if you could get TPS to hire me as a reporter/analyst, and I'll cover some of the sessions you can't cover...
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Feb 1 2006, 03:00 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 29-December 05 Member No.: 623 |
QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 31 2006, 05:04 PM) Spirit and Opportunity results Saturn satellites and rings results Deep Impact results ALL AT ONCE!! What the heck am I going to do?? But note that Spirit and Opportunity is the second session on that topic so not the top-level results, and the Saturn talks ease into the topic while DI starts with the overview results. So some creative room-swapping will solve the problem. What can you do... Wednesday is a big day! |
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Feb 1 2006, 03:07 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
How much is a flight from the UK
It's when I read line-ups like that that I want to throw in the medical e-learning town and enjoy the thrills of conference coffee and space reporting. Damn you mortgage - damn you to hell! Doug |
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Feb 1 2006, 05:53 PM
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QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jan 31 2006, 11:40 PM) Abstracts for the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference next month are now available (thanks to Alex for the alert). They are available at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006. One might consider checking these full-session PDFs from time to time in the days leading up to the conference. The reason is that, given past history, a few of the original files are usually updated (e.g., an abstract was corrupted during the PDF distillation process, etc.). |
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Feb 1 2006, 09:38 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
yeah, the concurrent sesssions are going to be a problem on Wednesday, but ultimately, I will be in the Cassini sessions. I'll try to take good notes if that's helpful...
Here are a few abstracts I found interesting: The South Polar Hot Spot on Enceladus http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2252.pdf Describes analysis preformed on CIRS data of Enceladus from not just the Rev11 encounter and the south polar region (though results and models for that data are discussed), but also thermal inertia results from near the anti-Saturn point and the north pole. They estimate that the average heat flow from the south polar region is 10% of Io's global average. I should note that the main author is a fellow UMSF member. RADAR Imaging of Giant Longitudinal Dunes: Namib Desert (Earth) and the Belet Sand Sea (Titan) http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1249.pdf Fairly self explanatory. Abstract provides a short analysis of the longitundinal dunes found on Titan, particularly in Belet Visible view of longituninal dunes in Namibia: http://maps.google.com/?ll=-24.277638,15.0...57,0.451813&t=h Crateriform Structures on Titan http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1659.pdf Discussion of crater-like features seen by RADAR, particularly in T7 and T8. Titan's Enigmatic 5-Micron-bright terrain http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2319.pdf Analysis using VIMS data of Hotei Arcus and Tui Regio, regions south of Xanadu that appear bright at 5-microns Diapir-Induced Reorientation of Enceladus http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2113.pdf I haven't read through this yet, but I thought I would point out vexgizmo's abstract Patterns of Fracture and Tectonic Convergence near the South Pole of Enceladus http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2182.pdf This is an analysis of the tectonic structures observed by ISS within the south polar region of Enceladus. The authors conclude that the boundary of the south polar region, marked by Y-shaped discontinuities and cusps, represents a convergent tectonic boundary (complete with thrust-faulted ridge belts at the cusps) resulting from the flattening of the rotation axis. Shapes of the Saturnian Satellites: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1639.pdf Physical Characteristics and Possible Accretionary Origin for Saturn's Small Satellites: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/2289.pdf New estimates on the sizes of Saturn's satellites (Hyperion not presented here, work still in progress) There are also quite a few abstracts on possible interior models for Enceladus, including vexgizmo's. I haven't quite read them yet. Distribution of Icy Particles Across Enceladus' Surface http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1766.pdf Modeling work on VIMS' Enceladus data. They are able to show that water ice grain size decreases with increasing age. Topographic features of Ithaca Chasma, Tethys http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1749.pdf DEMs of Ithaca Chasma. The canyon appears to be 2-3 km deep but the flanks are up to 6 km taller than surrounding plains. Link between Ithaca Chasma and Odysseus proven incorrect given the significant differences in ages between Ithaca Chasma (100-200 My younger than the surrounding plains) and Odysseus (much younger). Obviously there is more to LPSC than Cassini, good topics of discussion in other parts of the this forum include the results from Hayubasa, Deep Impact, and MER. I've glanced through the Deep Impact and Hayubasa stuff, and they certainly look interesting. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Feb 1 2006, 10:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (volcanopele @ Feb 1 2006, 04:38 PM) RADAR Imaging of Giant Longitudinal Dunes: Namib Desert (Earth) and the Belet Sand Sea (Titan) http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1249.pdf Fairly self explanatory. Abstract provides a short analysis of the longitundinal dunes found on Titan, particularly in Belet Visible view of longituninal dunes in Namibia: http://maps.google.com/?ll=-24.277638,15.0...57,0.451813&t=h I well recall this sharp image of the Namib Desert from Gemini 5 in 1965: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/...es/65-45579.jpg The caption: The navigators and explorers of 500 years ago had a great fear of sailing along the hostile Atlantic coasts of Africa. Such fears hastened the discovery and European occupation of the Americas. This view clearly shows 400 kilometers of "Skeleton Coast" of Southwest Africa. Constant northerly winds cause the development of parallel sand dunes which, in some cases, are over 200 kilometers long and over 300 meters high. Seifs, as they are called, are rarely found and parallel the wind direction; most dunes are transverse to the wind direction. A combination of wind-blown sand from the Namib Desert and the strong northward Benguela Current cause the development of sand hooks or capes. This dry and hostile area with an equally hostile name receives about 100 centimeters of rain a century. (S65-45579; Gemini V.) And check out these dune images in Algeria from Gemini 7: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mis...ni_7_page1.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 2 2006, 01:45 AM
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QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Feb 1 2006, 05:53 PM) One might consider checking these full-session PDFs from time to time in the days leading up to the conference. The reason is that, given past history, a few of the original files are usually updated... Note that four full-session files were updated today (2/1/06), or at least that was the case for me since I downloaded them a couple of days ago. |
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Feb 3 2006, 04:41 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 19-February 05 Member No.: 171 |
Thanks so much for posting the abstracts found here:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006 Why do I get the impression after reading the PDF file on Titan that the principal scientists have no idea what they are either looking at or actually know what the surface of Titan is made up of. Interesting to hear from those who were at the actual meeting and heard what was actually presented. |
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