For those you of you who might be viewing this and not aware of our Spring trip, POSSE is going to visit NASA sometime in February. We'll be getting a behind the scenes look at what goes on at the headquarters of a national space program and looking at lunar rocks; we might even get to touch 'em.
A couple of fun things to look at:
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
The Mountain from TSO Photography on Vimeo.
You might also want to make note of the 13th/14th of December as the Geminids are coming, oh God. No, you don't need to grab your tin foil hats, they aren't here to steal your thoughts.
The Geminids are a meteor shower which peaks annually around December 13th/14th. Rates this year are predicted to be as high as 100 meteors per hour, so bust out your sleeping bags and get away from the city lights if you want to see them all.
Upcoming talks:
Tuesday, November 22nd from 12:30-1:30pm in JGB 3.222
- Dr. Jack Holt will be giving a talk titled "A New View of Ice on Mars: Viscous Fluid, Sedimentary Rock, and Paleoclimate Record"
Wednesday, November 23rd from 12-1pm in JGB 3.222
- iPGST (informal Petrology, Geochemistry, Structure and Tectonics talks) will be hosting a speaker who I believe will be talking about something related to Mars.
I'll update this when I get more information.
UPDATE:
- Speaker: Romy Hanna
- Title: Using thermal infared (TIR) spectroscopy to determine the mineralogy and geologic setting of intracrater materials in Amazonis Planitia, Mars
A paper by UT postdoc Britney Schmidt co-authored by Senior Research Scientist Don Blankenship was published in Nature on the 16th. The paper, titled "Active formation of 'chaos terrain' over shallow subsurface water on Europa", presents evidence for sub-surface "lakes" on Jupiter's moon.
Read more about the paper here.
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| Britney Schmidt |
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