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Aitken Basin
Geological and geochemical analysis of units in the South Pole – Aitken Basin A.M. Borst¹,², F.S. Bexkens¹,², B. H. Foing², D. Koschny² ¹ Department of Petrology, VU University Amsterdam ² SCI-S. Research and Scientific Support Department, ESA – ESTEC Student Planetary Workshop 10-10-2008 ESA/ESTEC The Netherlands The South Pole – Aitken Basin Largest and oldest Lunar impact basin - Diameter > 2500 km - Depth > 12 km - Age 4.2 - 3.9 Ga Formed during Late heavy bombardment? Window into the interior and evolution of the Moon Priority target for future sample return missions Digital Elevation Model from Clementine altimetry data. Produced in ENVI, 50x vertical exaggeration, orthographic projection centered on the far side. Red +10 km, purple/black -10km. (A.M.Borst et.al. 2008) 1 The Moon and the SPA Basin Geochemistry Iron map South Pole – Aitken Basin mafic anomaly • High Fe, Th, Ti and Mg abundances • Excavation of mafic deep crustal / upper mantle material Thorium map Clementine 750 nm albedo map from USGS From Paul Lucey, J. Geophys. Res., 2000 Map-a-Planet What can we learn from the SPA Basin? • Large impacts; Implications and processes • Volcanism; Origin, age and difference with near side mare basalts • Cratering record; Age, frequency and size distribution • Late Heavy Bombardment; Intensity, duration and origin • Composition of the deeper crust and possibly upper mantle 2 Topics of SPA Basin study 1) Global structure of the basin (F.S. Bexkens et al, 2008) • Rims, rings, ejecta distribution, subsequent craters modifications, reconstructive -
Perfect Little Planet Educator Guide Clark Planetarium Education Department
Perfect Little Planet Educator Guide Clark Planetarium Education Department Questions or comments can be directed to the Clark Planetarium Education Department at [email protected]. 1 Perfect Little Planet Educator Guide Table of Contents Vocabulary List. 3 Activities for the Imagination. 4 Word Search. .5 Two Astronomy Games. .7 A Toilet Paper Solar System Scale Model. .13 The Scale of the Solar System. 16 Solar System Models in Dough. .17 Solar System Fact Sheet. 20 2 Perfect Little Planet Educator Guide Vocabulary List Solar System Planet Asteroid Moon Comet Dwarf Planet Gas Giant "Rocky Midgets" (Terrestrial Planets) Sun Star Impact Orbit Planetary Rings Atmosphere Volcano Great Red Spot Olympus Mons Mariner Valley Acid Solar Prominence Solar Flare Ocean Earthquake Continent Plants and Animals Humans 3 Perfect Little Planet Educator Guide Activities for the Imagination The objectives of these activities are: to learn about Earth and other planets, use language and art skills, encourage use of libraries, and help develop creativity. The scientific accuracy of the creations may not be as important as the learning, reasoning, and imagination used to construct each invention. Invent a Planet Students may create (draw, paint, montage, build from household or classroom items, whatever!) a planet. Does it have air? What color is its sky? Does it have ground? What is its ground made of? What is it like on this world? Invent an Alien Students may create (draw, paint, montage, build from household items, etc.) an alien. To be fair to the alien, they should be sure to provide a way for the alien to get food (what is that food?), a way to breathe (if it needs to), ways to sense the environment, and perhaps a way to move around its planet. -
UF and Gran Telescopio Canarias Unveil New Eye on the Infrared Sky Contact
UF and Gran Telescopio Canarias Unveil New Eye on the Infrared Sky Contact: Prof. Stephen Eikenberry [email protected] 352-514-7632 The world's largest telescope - the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) 10.4-meter telescope on the island of La Palma, Spain - announced the unveiling of a new window into the mysteries of deep space, with the release of the Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE) for the use of astronomers worldwide. CIRCE - a highly-sensitive camera for the near-infrared (1.0 to 2.5 micron) wavelength range - was developed at the University of Florida (UF) Department of Astronomy by a team led by Professor Stephen Eikenberry and consisting largely of UF students and postdoctoral scholars. This approach provided a path for graduate students and young PhDs to be trained as instrument builders, which is not generally possible in the context of modern major facility instrumentation projects for large telescopes, where the much larger instruments, budgets, and teams generally prevent untrained personnel from "learning the ropes" of instrument-building in a broad sense. The students involved included: • Current students: Brian Chinn (undergraduate, class of 2016, Astronomy & Mechanical Engineering); Alan Garner (grad student, Astronomy); Deno Stelter (grad student, Astronomy); Kendall Ackley (grad student, Physics); Yigit Dallilar (grad student, Astronomy) • Former students: Miguel Charcos-Llorens (PhD 2009); Michelle Edwards (PhD 2008); Nestor Lasso-Cabrera (PhD 2012) • Former Postdoctoral scholars: Antonio Marin-Franch; Javier Cenarro These young scientists were supported in the development of CIRCE by members of the UF infrared instrumentation group (including J. Greg Bennett; Charlie Murphey; Scott Mullin; S. -
General Vertical Files Anderson Reading Room Center for Southwest Research Zimmerman Library
“A” – biographical Abiquiu, NM GUIDE TO THE GENERAL VERTICAL FILES ANDERSON READING ROOM CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST RESEARCH ZIMMERMAN LIBRARY (See UNM Archives Vertical Files http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=nmuunmverticalfiles.xml) FOLDER HEADINGS “A” – biographical Alpha folders contain clippings about various misc. individuals, artists, writers, etc, whose names begin with “A.” Alpha folders exist for most letters of the alphabet. Abbey, Edward – author Abeita, Jim – artist – Navajo Abell, Bertha M. – first Anglo born near Albuquerque Abeyta / Abeita – biographical information of people with this surname Abeyta, Tony – painter - Navajo Abiquiu, NM – General – Catholic – Christ in the Desert Monastery – Dam and Reservoir Abo Pass - history. See also Salinas National Monument Abousleman – biographical information of people with this surname Afghanistan War – NM – See also Iraq War Abousleman – biographical information of people with this surname Abrams, Jonathan – art collector Abreu, Margaret Silva – author: Hispanic, folklore, foods Abruzzo, Ben – balloonist. See also Ballooning, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Acequias – ditches (canoas, ground wáter, surface wáter, puming, water rights (See also Land Grants; Rio Grande Valley; Water; and Santa Fe - Acequia Madre) Acequias – Albuquerque, map 2005-2006 – ditch system in city Acequias – Colorado (San Luis) Ackerman, Mae N. – Masonic leader Acoma Pueblo - Sky City. See also Indian gaming. See also Pueblos – General; and Onate, Juan de Acuff, Mark – newspaper editor – NM Independent and -
Annualreport2005 Web.Pdf
Vision Statement The Space Science Institute is a thriving center of talented, entrepreneurial scientists, educators, and other professionals who make outstanding contributions to humankind’s understanding and appreciation of planet Earth, the Solar System, the galaxy, and beyond. 2 | Space Science Institute | Annual Report 2005 From Our Director Excite. Explore. Discover. These words aptly describe what we do in the research realm as well as in education. In fact, they defi ne the essence of our mission. Our mission is facilitated by a unique blend of on- and off-site researchers coupled with an extensive portfolio of education and public outreach (EPO) projects. This past year has seen SSI grow from $4.1M to over $4.3M in grants, an increase of nearly 6%. We now have over fi fty full and part-time staff. SSI’s support comes mostly from NASA and the National Sci- ence Foundation. Our Board of Directors now numbers eight. Their guidance and vision—along with that of senior management—have created an environment that continues to draw world-class scientists to the Institute and allows us to develop educa- tion and outreach programs that benefi t millions of people worldwide. SSI has a robust scientifi c research program that includes robotic missions such as the Mars Exploration Rovers, fl ight missions such as Cassini and the Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and ground-based programs. Dr. Tom McCord joined the Institute in 2005 as a Senior Research Scientist. He directs the Bear Fight Center, a 3,000 square-foot research and meeting facility in Washington state. -
Roundup Fall 2015
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Roundup LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CENTER Fall | 2015 Global (and cosmic) expansion Expansión global (y cósmica) In this edition… Guest Column 3 ISS Science Corner 4 Veteran explorers slated for future commercial crew flights 5 All aboard the education I’M WRITING THIS COLUMN having only been on the job for about two station! weeks, so I’m still learning the duties of a deputy director. While I have 6 White House lands at the been to the ninth floor of Building 1 many times, it is interesting how I house of human spaceflight have begun to see the center differently as I take on this new role. to praise our Commitment to I was the Orion Program manager for nearly eight years. During that Action for Hispanic education time, I experienced many transitions in NASA leadership and policy. 8 ‘Leaf’ it to NASA to grow Some of these were difficult for the team to weather, but they met the lettuce on space station challenge. I believe these experiences taught me how to anticipate, adapt and lead a team through change. It is my hope that these 9 It’s complicated: New Pluto experiences will provide me the insight to help Ellen lead the center images from NASA’s New into NASA’s next chapters of human spaceflight. Horizons offer many surprises I know that the other programs and directorates at JSC are faced 10 Meet Delene Sedillo, with their own specific, dynamic environments. In the coming weeks, NASA/PHOTO Associate Director, Office of I’ll be taking some time to get an understanding of the strategies and Mark Geyer Procurement challenges involving all of the organizations here at JSC. -
Martian Crater Morphology
ANALYSIS OF THE DEPTH-DIAMETER RELATIONSHIP OF MARTIAN CRATERS A Capstone Experience Thesis Presented by Jared Howenstine Completion Date: May 2006 Approved By: Professor M. Darby Dyar, Astronomy Professor Christopher Condit, Geology Professor Judith Young, Astronomy Abstract Title: Analysis of the Depth-Diameter Relationship of Martian Craters Author: Jared Howenstine, Astronomy Approved By: Judith Young, Astronomy Approved By: M. Darby Dyar, Astronomy Approved By: Christopher Condit, Geology CE Type: Departmental Honors Project Using a gridded version of maritan topography with the computer program Gridview, this project studied the depth-diameter relationship of martian impact craters. The work encompasses 361 profiles of impacts with diameters larger than 15 kilometers and is a continuation of work that was started at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas under the guidance of Dr. Walter S. Keifer. Using the most ‘pristine,’ or deepest craters in the data a depth-diameter relationship was determined: d = 0.610D 0.327 , where d is the depth of the crater and D is the diameter of the crater, both in kilometers. This relationship can then be used to estimate the theoretical depth of any impact radius, and therefore can be used to estimate the pristine shape of the crater. With a depth-diameter ratio for a particular crater, the measured depth can then be compared to this theoretical value and an estimate of the amount of material within the crater, or fill, can then be calculated. The data includes 140 named impact craters, 3 basins, and 218 other impacts. The named data encompasses all named impact structures of greater than 100 kilometers in diameter. -
Careers Service Opportunity to Live out Their Dreams of Exploring Our World
Case Study: Alumni Andreas Mogensen, MEng Aeronautical Engineering Graduation Year: 1999 Job Title: Astronaut Employer: European Space Agency Department: European Astronaut Center Could you give us some information about yourself and your role? I was selected by the European Space Agency in 2009 as one of six new European astronauts and the first astronaut from Denmark. Since then I have been based at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany. Currently, I am training for my first spaceflight, “Being a student is an launching on 1 September 2015 with the Russian Soyuz spacecraft opportunity in your life to from Baikonur, Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. gain unique experiences The mission will involve a mixture of science experiments and and Imperial College technology developments. In addition, I will serve as co-pilot on board Soyuz, which means I will be trained to fly and land the offers so much more spacecraft manually. than just an education” - Andreas Mogensen Life as an astronaut is predominantly about training and learning new skills. This includes everything from classroom-based technical training on all the onboard systems to the much more practical training on how to perform a spacewalk or control the robotic arm. And of course there is also Russian language training on top of it. All of this training takes place among the international partners behind the ISS program, which means that I am constantly travelling between NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Star City in Russia, and the European Astronaut Center. The training is intended to teach us new skills, but it doesn’t teach us much about life in space. -
Grand Dames of Los Feliz Listed for $4.2 & $4.7 Million Our Relatively
Los Feliz Ledger Read by 100,000+ Residents and Business Owners in Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Vol 12. No. 11 May 2017 Atwater Village, Echo Park & Hollywood Hills Our Relatively Western/ Safe Streets Franklin Project By Michael Aushenker Delayed, Contributing Writer Appeals Filed The city’s co-called “Vi- By Erin Hickey sion Zero” plan, which aims Ledger Contributing Writer to reduce traffic deaths and injuries to zero by 2025, has An April 27th Los Ange- its work cut out for it in some les City Planning Dept. hear- areas of the city, but not so ing for the controversial 5-sto- much locally. ry development proposed for According to city officials, the intersection of Franklin good portions of Los Feliz, and Western avenues has now East Hollywood, Silver Lake, been postponed until May Echo Park and Atwater Village 25th at the developer’s request, have had a statistically low ra- according to public records. tio of car related fatalities and The project, a mixed-use serious injuries compared to apartment complex, would in- other parts of Los Angeles. clude 96 residential units, and “We’re fortunate in roughly 5,550 square feet of Council District 4 to have had commercial space and would relatively few traffic-related -fa replace an existing gas sta- talities,” said Los Angeles City tion, duplex and single family Councilmember David Ryu, home. who represents those neigh- Thus far, public sentiment borhoods in part, along with on the development has been PROTEST—About 60 people gathered April 15 to protest in advance of the city’s April 18th closure Council District 13 Coun- split, with the project’s sup- of a gate at the end of Beachwood Canyon Drive—per a court order—which had become a favorite cilmember Mitch O’Farrell. -
Three Chumash-Style Pictograph Sites in Fernandeño Territory
THREE CHUMASH-STYLE PICTOGRAPH SITES IN FERNANDEÑO TERRITORY ALBERT KNIGHT SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY There are three significant archaeology sites in the eastern Simi Hills that have an elaborate polychrome pictograph component. Numerous additional small loci of rock art and major midden deposits that are rich in artifacts also characterize these three sites. One of these sites, the “Burro Flats” site, has the most colorful, elaborate, and well-preserved pictographs in the region south of the Santa Clara River and west of the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley. Almost all other painted rock art in this region consists of red-only paintings. During the pre-contact era, the eastern Simi Hills/west San Fernando Valley area was inhabited by a mix of Eastern Coastal Chumash and Fernandeño. The style of the paintings at the three sites (CA-VEN-1072, VEN-149, and LAN-357) is clearly the same as that found in Chumash territory. If the quantity and the quality of rock art are good indicators, then it is probable that these three sites were some of the most important ceremonial sites for the region. An examination of these sites has the potential to help us better understand this area of cultural interaction. This article discusses the polychrome rock art at the Burro Flats site (VEN-1072), the Lake Manor site (VEN-148/149), and the Chatsworth site (LAN-357). All three of these sites are located in rock shelters in the eastern Simi Hills. The Simi Hills are mostly located in southeast Ventura County, although the eastern end is in Los Angeles County (Figure 1). -
Orbital Evidence for More Widespread Carbonate- 10.1002/2015JE004972 Bearing Rocks on Mars Key Point: James J
PUBLICATIONS Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets RESEARCH ARTICLE Orbital evidence for more widespread carbonate- 10.1002/2015JE004972 bearing rocks on Mars Key Point: James J. Wray1, Scott L. Murchie2, Janice L. Bishop3, Bethany L. Ehlmann4, Ralph E. Milliken5, • Carbonates coexist with phyllosili- 1 2 6 cates in exhumed Noachian rocks in Mary Beth Wilhelm , Kimberly D. Seelos , and Matthew Chojnacki several regions of Mars 1School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2The Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA, 3SETI Institute, Mountain View, California, USA, 4Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, 5Department of Geological Sciences, Brown Correspondence to: University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 6Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA J. J. Wray, [email protected] Abstract Carbonates are key minerals for understanding ancient Martian environments because they Citation: are indicators of potentially habitable, neutral-to-alkaline water and may be an important reservoir for Wray, J. J., S. L. Murchie, J. L. Bishop, paleoatmospheric CO2. Previous remote sensing studies have identified mostly Mg-rich carbonates, both in B. L. Ehlmann, R. E. Milliken, M. B. Wilhelm, Martian dust and in a Late Noachian rock unit circumferential to the Isidis basin. Here we report evidence for older K. D. Seelos, and M. Chojnacki (2016), Orbital evidence for more widespread Fe- and/or Ca-rich carbonates exposed from the subsurface by impact craters and troughs. These carbonates carbonate-bearing rocks on Mars, are found in and around the Huygens basin northwest of Hellas, in western Noachis Terra between the Argyre – J. -
DMAAC – February 1973
LUNAR TOPOGRAPHIC ORTHOPHOTOMAP (LTO) AND LUNAR ORTHOPHOTMAP (LO) SERIES (Published by DMATC) Lunar Topographic Orthophotmaps and Lunar Orthophotomaps Scale: 1:250,000 Projection: Transverse Mercator Sheet Size: 25.5”x 26.5” The Lunar Topographic Orthophotmaps and Lunar Orthophotomaps Series are the first comprehensive and continuous mapping to be accomplished from Apollo Mission 15-17 mapping photographs. This series is also the first major effort to apply recent advances in orthophotography to lunar mapping. Presently developed maps of this series were designed to support initial lunar scientific investigations primarily employing results of Apollo Mission 15-17 data. Individual maps of this series cover 4 degrees of lunar latitude and 5 degrees of lunar longitude consisting of 1/16 of the area of a 1:1,000,000 scale Lunar Astronautical Chart (LAC) (Section 4.2.1). Their apha-numeric identification (example – LTO38B1) consists of the designator LTO for topographic orthophoto editions or LO for orthophoto editions followed by the LAC number in which they fall, followed by an A, B, C or D designator defining the pertinent LAC quadrant and a 1, 2, 3, or 4 designator defining the specific sub-quadrant actually covered. The following designation (250) identifies the sheets as being at 1:250,000 scale. The LTO editions display 100-meter contours, 50-meter supplemental contours and spot elevations in a red overprint to the base, which is lithographed in black and white. LO editions are identical except that all relief information is omitted and selenographic graticule is restricted to border ticks, presenting an umencumbered view of lunar features imaged by the photographic base.