Triton Outbound Imaging Options

[tedstryk]

Emily just posted my writeup on my LPSC poster presentation.

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00001891/

Here is a link to the actual poster.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2009/pdf/1710.pdf

Here is the poster:

[nprev]

Very interesting work, Ted; congrats to you, Phil, and Steve, and thanks for posting this here!

It's tempting to think of Triton as a "cryo-Io" in some ways, if your hypothesis that the south polar area's geology is generally representative rather than unique turns out to be correct.

[tedstryk]

The south polar terrain is frost covered, but the terrain types seem fairly consistent on the approach side as well.

[nprev]

Understood. My interpretation was that you were implying that the south polar cap of Triton may be a thin veneer--N2 rime?-- rather than a major geological influence on the terrain like the Martian caps are.

[tedstryk]

That seems to be the general consensus.