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[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

...or at least those on Monday -- which is to say most of the important ones, dealing specifically with the latest results from ER and Mars Express. I've gotten another assignment from "Astronomy" to do a one-page piece on each of those subjects. (I would have loved to hang around for the remainder of the meeting to cover the Saturn and Titan meetings in particular -- but, alas I wasn't offered enough to even cover my motel expenses for that, since those meetings are spread across three more days. I do, however, intend to take careful note of the Saturn and Titan posters available on the first day.)

It's awfully late for me to give you this news -- but does anyone have any particular questions you'd like me to look into while I'm there?

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Bruce,
I would be interested to hear how the MARSIS and SHARAD instruments are going to work in tandem to enhance each others science output.

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

Bruce,
I would be interested to hear how the MARSIS and SHARAD instruments are going to work in tandem to enhance each others science output.

There's a good new LPSC abstract on precisely that at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2006/pdf/1450.pdf , where the polar layered deposits are concerned. I also have a document in my records somewhere on the specific nature of SHARAD's scientific purposes, once I dig it up.

That LPSC abstract also points out that, when you look more carefully at the one cross-section MARSIS has obtained so far of the northern polar layered deposits, you do see the same sort of internal layering that is far more clearly visible in the deeper southern deposits -- something that was not mentioned at all at the December AGU presentation.