A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars’ equator in plain sight. Its discovery points to an exciting new place to search for life, and a potential destination for future robotic and human exploration.
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LPSC is happening this week. If you aren't in the planetary science community, it's the largest conference of the year dedicated to planetary science research.
It's now been 5 years since I last attended (2019), skipped peak COVID years obviously, but wish I had attended last year during my postdoc.
Regardless, I'll be following along as best as I can vicariously. I know several friends and colleagues giving talks this week and wish them all the best!
Starting the afternoon Icy Moon Science Special Session will be Jennifer Scully on Impact Craters as Windows into the Subsurfaces of Icy Moons. #LPSCHaiku
Darkness from below
Very evolved brine, and past
Impact in liquid?
"dark comets" are near-Earth asteroids with no observed outgassing but measurable non-gravitational acceleration that cannot be explained by radiation pressure.
Started work on my abstract for #LPSC2024 today! I've been slowly mosaicking frames from the MARDI drive videos #Curiosity collected while exploring #MarkerBandValley. Once they're georeferenced, I hope they'll be of major use to scientists working to piece together the environmental transitions taking place on Mars when the Marker Band was deposited! Here's a roughly 4 m x 1 m segment of the drive performed on Sol 3648 (November 10, 2022).