LPSC 2019

Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

The 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference will be held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, The Woodlands, Texas, March 18–22, 2019.

This conference brings together international specialists in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the latest results of research in planetary science. The 4.5-day conference will be organized by topical symposia and problem-oriented sessions.

SETI Institute scientists will be participate as follows:

Special Session: New Horizons at KBO 2014 MU 69 (Ultima Thule)

• A Contact Binary in the Kuiper Belt:  The Shape and Pole of (486958) 2014 MU69 (Ross Beyer)
• Topography of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) at Local Scales:  Surface Evolution of a Small Primitive Body (Ross Beyer and Chloe Beddingfield)
• The Mysterious Missing Light Curve of (486958) 2014 MU69, a bi-lobate contact binary visited by New Horizons (Ross Beyer and Chloe Beddingfield)
• The Search for Moons and Rings of 2014 MU69 (Mark Showalter)

 

Kuiper Belt Objects: From Pluto to Eris and Ultima Thule

• Potential Implications of the Shape of 2014 MU69 for Interpreting Other KBO Lightcurves (Mark Showalter)
• Potential Mapping Schemes and Reference Systems for MU69 (Ross Beyer)
• Gravity, Rotation, and Hill Slopes of 2014 MU69 (Mark Showalter)

 

Poster Session 1: Special Session New Horizons at KBO 2014 MU 69 (Ultima Thule)

• Deriving an Ultima Thule Digital Shape Kernel (Chloe Beddingfield and Ross Beyer)
• Color and Albedo of Ultima Thule:  A Comparison to TNOs and Centaurs  (Cristina Dalle Ore and Richard Cartwright)

 

Poster Session 1: Education and Public Engagement Models, Opportunities and Products for Engaging Audiences

• Using Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) for Science and Outreach on Missions:  New Horizons’ Encounter with the Pluto-Charon System and (486958) 2014 MU69 (Chloe Beddingfield)

 

Poster Session 2: Visualizing Worlds Planetary Spatial Data and Infrastructure

• A Roadmap for Planetary Spatial Data Infrastructure (Ross Beyer)

 

Poster Session 1: Icy Tastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

• Developing a Database for Candidate Cryovolcanic Domes on Europa (Ross Beyer)

 

Martian Brines: Old Salts and New Views

• Salty Solution to Slipping Soils on Martian Slopes (Janice Bishop and Virginia Gulick)

 

Martian Aqueous Alteration: Tracing the Effects of Water Up Close and Far Away

• Analysis of Clay Deposits in and Around Ladon Basin and Ladon Valles (Janice Bishop)

 

Poster Session 2: Mars from Orbit Spectroscopy and Landing Sites

• The Effects of Aqueous Processes and Impacts on Mineral Alteration and Weathering in Libya Montes and Tyrrhena Terra, Mars (Janice Bishop)
• Investigating Fractured Phyllosilicate-Rich Deposits at Mawrth-Vallis, Mars (Janice Bishop)
• Characterization of Outcrops Containing “Doublet” Spectra at Mawrth Vallis, Mars (Janice Bishop)
• Characterization of Jarosite-Bearing Outcrops Northwest of Mawrth Vallis (Janice Bishop)
• Spectral Properties of Alunite-Kaolinite Mixtures and Detection of These Minerals at Mawrth Vallis (Janice Bishop)

 

Poster Session 2: Mars Analogs Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

• Salts and Clays Beneath Surface Sediments in Antarctica Provide Clues to Weathering and Geochemistry on Mars (Janice Bishop)
• Near Surface Geochemistry and Mineralogy at the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Serves as an Analog for Some Near Surface Sites on Mars (Janice Bishop)
• Analysis of Unique Martian Sulfate Outcrops Based on Samples from the Painted Desert Sulfate Hill Analog Site and Lab Mixtures (Janice Bishop)
• Spectral Properties of Hydrated Poorly Crystalline Materials for Spectral Analysis of the Moon and Mars (Janice Bishop)

 

Poster Session 2: Mars Analogs Volcanic and Hyrdothermal Processes

• Investigation of Altered Volcanic Material from the Polihua Trail Site on Lana’i as an Analog for Mars (Janice Bishop)

 

Ice, Ice IO

• The Origin of Saturn’s Rings Revisited  (Paul Estrada and Matija Ćuk)

 

Poster Session 2: Impacts Mars and Beyond

• Geological and Compositional Analysis of Ganymede’s Melkart Impact Crater (Cristina Dalle Ore)
• Constraints on Crater Formation Ages on Dione from Cassini VIMS and ISS (Cristina Dalle Ore)

 

Poster Session 1: The Horcrux Rings of Saturn

• Inward Radial Drift of Material from Angular Momentum Loss Due to Ballistic Transport in Saturn’s Rings:  Implications for Observed Mass Loss Rates and Remaining Ring Lifetime (Paul Estrada)

 

Poster Session 1: Planetary Aeolian Processes

• The Mars Global Digital Dune Database (MGD3):  Composition and Stability (Lori Fenton)

 

Poster Session 1: Mission and Instrument Concepts Mars

• CheMinX:  A Next Generation XRD/XRF for Mars Exploration (Philippe Sarrazin)

 

Poster Session 1: Things Fall Down Go Boom Mars Downslope Motion

• Geomorphic Analysis of Martian Gullies in Western Asimov Crater (Virginia Gulick and Natalie Glines)

 

Poster Session 1: Mission and Instrument Concepts Human Exploration

• Noctis Landing, Mars:  Concept Vehicular Traverse Paths from a Proposed Human Landing Site and Exploration Zone in West Valles Marineris (Pascal Lee)

 

Poster Session 2: Analogs for the Moon and Other Airless Bodies

• Lofthellir Lava Tube Ice Cave, Iceland:  Subsurface Micro-Glaciers, Rockfalls, Drone Lidar 3D-Mapping, and Implications for the Exploration of Potential Ice-Rich Lava Tubes on the Moon and Mars  (Pascal Lee)

 

Poster Session 1: Mission and Instrument Concepts Organics

• MapX:  An In-Situ Mapping X-Ray Fluorescence Instrument for Detection of Biosignatures and Habitable Planetary Environments  (Philippe Sarrazin and Franck Marchis)

 

Processes on Modern Mars

• Multiphase Thermal Modeling of Martian Recurring Slope Lineae (Tim Michaels)

Note: Registration is required to attend this conference.
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2019/