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A New Month, A New Podcast
Well, I'm back from LPSC and have jumped straight from one kind of busy to a new kind of crazy. As some of you may know, Nick Rattenbury is leaving the Jodcast and the rest of the team (including the original Astronomy Blog author Stuart Lowe) are stupidly busy,...
Of Geologists
I have decided they purposely placed all the pretty talks at the end of the data just to keep me in my chair. JAXA is currently showing off all the pretty pictures from KAGUYA and it is brain candy. Really. Go see here and here. As I watch, I'm also watching the...
The Moon is Made of Minerals
Here is where I admit I have never taken Geology or Organic Chemistry. This is my third time coming to LPSC and each time I come I learn there are more minerals yet to learn. Today I spent my morning sitting in on sessions involving the new data coming down from the...
THE NASA Meeting
One of the either high points or low points (emotionally) of every LPSC is the NASA meeting. This year I have some sense that this will be a good experience for all. We have a new administration, we have new NASA HQ staff, and we know a new NASA director is on the...
Habitable Martian Pole
Carol Stoker and Suzanne Young just presented a pair of presentation on the habitability of Mars. Bottomline: The Mars Phoenix Landing Site is capable of supporting life today. The also calculated a habitability index for the various sites landers have explored on...
Classifying Planets
This year's Masursky Lecture is being given by Alan Stern. Stern seriously earned my respect last year in the face of a disgruntled room of geophysicists who didn't have the nuclear engines they needed, who'd been told that Mars was not a funding priority, and who had...
A Morning of Phoenix
(disclosure: I left my cellular internet dongle in my room, so I'm twittering sessions live and posting blog entries on a semi random basis when I can go out and find internet) I'm leaning against the back wall of a packed ballroom filled with the brim with silent and...
I’m not messing with Texas, Just with LPSC
Currently I'm on my way to Houston Texas to attend the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference courtesy of the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the Jet Propulsion Lab. This is my third LPSC and I have to say I'm really excited. This is one of my favorite...
Catching up
It's been a while since I last blogged. I have to admit that I've missed it, but the past few months have been a bit busy. Things are finally starting to reach the point where I can begin to reveal some of what's going on. About a year ago I went to the UK for the...
Tomorrow in St Louis
Hi Everyone, Okay, I officially forfeit. The International Year of Astronomy pwnd me. I am her eager slave and I willingly sacrifice all my spare moments to helping her succeed. I am looking for time to blog. It will happen. Eventually. In the interium, if you are in...