LPSC 2010 abstracts Options

[Phil Stooke]

Yes, the LPSC abstracts for 2010 are up:

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/program.pdf

and there's lots of good stuff there.

Phil

[volcanopele]

Very cool! Sifting through them now:

In the "I did that four years ago... perhaps I should have shown others" file:
Old Tiger Stripes and the South Polar Dichotomy on Enceladus
Patthoff D. A. Kattenhorn S. A.

Detection of a Specular Reflection on Titan by Cassini-VIMS
Stephan K. et al.
Good background on the VIMS specular reflection observation from a lake to the west of Kraken Mare

Paterae on Io: Insights from Slope Stability Analysis
Keszthelyi L. P. et al.
Well, looks like you could scratch off "Powerful Ioquakes" from the list of potential hazards to Ionian colonists...

The Geology of Rhea: A First Look at the ISS Camera Data from Orbit 121 (Nov. 21, 2009) in Cassini’s Extended Mission
Wagner R. J. et al.
For those interested in early results from that flyby of Rhea

In the "Hey, I know those guys!" File:
Transit and Shadow Transit of Neptune by Despina
Stryk T. Stooke P. J.

In the "Phoebe did it! Phoebe did it! Himalia's just being a little copycat!" File:
A New Ring or Ring Arc of Jupiter?
Cheng A. F. * et al.
(for those who don't get the reference above, you had to have seen that South Park episode...)

[nprev]

Hmm. Another from the "Hey, I know those guys!" file:

Identification Of Karst-Like Terrain On Titan From Valley Analysis

Malaska M., Lorenz R., et al.

[volcanopele]

In the "Phoebe did it! Phoebe did it! Himalia's just being a little copycat!" File:
A New Ring or Ring Arc of Jupiter?
Cheng A. F. * et al.
(for those who don't get the reference above, you had to have seen that South Park episode...)

The last sentence of this abstract had me doing a spit take: The impact of the lost satellite S/2000 J11 [11] onto Himalia would have produced far more than this rough lower limit volume of ejected material.

Whoa...

[aggieastronaut]

By yours truly: Nighttime Optical Depth Patterns from the Mars Exploration Rovers

and another one with my name on it: Time-Dependent Dust Accumulation on the Mars Phoenix Wind Indicator

I've somehow been put in charge of coordinating an LPSC tweetup, so for those of you interested (we'll accept you, even if you don't have an account!) I'll post details once I figure something out.

[ngunn]

I don't know how those attending the conference this time will appreciate the way the sessions are organised, but as a lay abstract hunter with a particular interest in Titan I found the absence of a dedicated Titan session this time quite annoying. Who came up with this for a session title? Is it supposed to be making some kind of point, humorous or otherwise?
"Several Species of Variously Sized Icy Chunks Gathered Together Around Giant Planets and Evolving Over Time"
!
Grumble over, there's lots of good reading as ever. Here's one I particularly like, from the "Satellites and their Planets" session:
Why Titan's Lakes Have Been Smooth So Far - and May Be About to Get Rough

EDIT Sorry, I don't seem to be able to post those as active links.

[djellison]

Mastcam paper
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2010/pdf/1123.pdf

Nice to see a finished Mastcam. Tragic to see it delivered without Zoom despite Mastcam never having been over budget.

[climber]

Nice to see a finished Mastcam. Tragic to see it delivered without Zoom despite Mastcam never having been over budget.

Doug, I know what you mean and you're the specialist, but M-100 yielding 7.4 cm/pixel scale at 1km distance doesn't look too bad to me. This would give about 20cm per pixel on top of Husband Hills from Spirit landing spot, or do I missundertand something? Does atmosphere allow getting much more details when we go over, say, 5 kms? Or does the Zoom would have allowed "different scales" from the same place?

[elakdawalla]

"Several Species of Variously Sized Icy Chunks Gathered Together Around Giant Planets and Evolving Over Time"

You're clearly not a Pink Floyd fan! (link)

Part of the "charm" of LPSC is the sometimes quirky session titles. Most times, the jokes are of the same quality as this one.

Outer planet moons have always been kind of a funny interloper into this meeting full of geologists. Now, the meeting seems to be getting back to its roots with lots and lots of lunar sessions.

As annoying as it can be that there is not a single session devoted to your favorite place, in part that's a mark of the diversity of the processes on Titan. A meeting like this should facilitate researchers who work on different processes in different places comparing notes -- the process-based sessions, while a bit harder to browse, do foster that kind of dialogue.

[djellison]

Doug, I know what you mean and you're the specialist, but M-100 yielding 7.4 cm/pixel scale at 1km distance doesn't look too bad to me.

I agree - that's superb. But it was due to be slightly better than that (10cm @ 2km I believe) - and at the wide end, be wider that the other 'eye'. But that's not the shame. The shame is that we wont have proper stereo from it. No 8fps HD Stereo driving movies or DD movies etc etc. With one zoomed in and one zoomed out, they stop being a stereo pair and creating stereo becomes a bit of a headache on the ground.

In terms of outreach, and in terms of usefulness for driving (L7 drive direction pancams, anyone) it has suffered massively.

[ngunn]

Pink Floyd

Ha! Thanks Emily. Actually I am a fan, and familiar with that track, but I still missed the connection. (I suppose tenuous connections are what the outer Solar System is all about.)

I take the point about process-oriented sessions in general, though I think for Titan a good case could be made for a holistic one-world focus. I note that Venus gets its own session with a wide range of processes discussed. Anyhow, the upside is that although I'm still not sure I've found all the Titan abstracts I have run into lots of other interesting stuff I might otherwise have overlooked.

Also I don't blame the geologists for a bit of rock-snobbery. They are after all studying a rather special material that is probably much rarer than water.

[Phil Stooke]

On my first run through I saw an abstract on Titan radar mapping - a set of 15 quadrangles covering the surface plus other global maps. Second time through it took ages to find it, because of the new format.

Phil

[ngunn]

an abstract on Titan radar mapping

OK that is indeed one I missed. Which session is that in?

[volcanopele]

Digital Map Products from the Cassini RADAR in the NASA Planetary Data System
Kirk R. L. et al.

It is in the Data and Image systems poster session.

[ngunn]

Thanks. Silly Me. I was looking in 'Pigs on the Wing'.