LPSC, Day 2: Morning sessions on our Moon and Saturn's moons
Posted By Emily Lakdawalla 2009/03/24 03:17 CDT This morning at
the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference would have presented
a challenge to me. On the one hand, there's the Moon, with a
whole session devoted to Chandrayaan-1 and Chang'e 1 (actually,
upon reading the abstracts, it was mostly Chandrayaan-1). But it
was scheduled back-to-back with a session on the icy satellites
of Jupiter and Saturn. I'll confess I probably would have made
an effort to attend the lunar sessions, because you just don't
get many results out of the Asian missions, but would eventually
have crept away to the outer planets moons sessions. For the
most part, the abstracts from the lunar session contain
descriptive information about each science instrument and about
the commissioning phase of the mission, before science data was
available, so there's not a lot of new stuff to report on. There
was one abstract, reporting on the first results from the Moon
Mineralogy Mapper