P51D
Judging a Book by Its Cover: From Surface Observations to Interiors of Small Bodies, Ice Satellites, and Planets II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
2007 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Stephen M Clifford, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Alexander J Evans, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Chairs:  Alexander J Evans1, Peter B. James1, Stephen M Clifford2 and Essam Heggy3, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States(2)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States(3)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Stephen M Clifford, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
08:00
Does the face of Venus reveal whether she is Earth’s fraternal twin or identical twin separated at birth? (Invited) (71110)
Suzanne E Smrekar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
08:15
Understanding the Interior Evolution of Mercury from Its Tectonic History (Invited) (58558)
Paul K Byrne1,2, Christian Klimczak1,3, A M Celal Sengor4, Steven A. Hauck II5 and Sean C Solomon1,6, (1)Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States, (2)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States, (3)University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, GA, United States, (4)Istanbul Technical Univ, Istanbul, Turkey, (5)Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
08:30
Can Mantle Potential Temperatures be Used to Infer the Tectonic Evolution of Terrestrial Planets? (63091)
Matt B Weller, Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States and Megan S Duncan, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
08:45
Pluto's Polygonal Terrain Places Lower Limit on Planetary Heat Flow (85156)
Alexander Trowbridge, Jordan K Steckloff, Jay Melosh IV and Andrew Mark Freed, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
09:00
The case for water ice in Titan’s near subsurface (Invited) (60742)
Alice Anne Le Gall, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
09:15
Detecting Volatiles Deep in the Lunar Regolith (Invited) (73360)
Arlin Crotts1, Essam Heggy2, Valerie Ciarletti3, Anthony Colaprete4, Mahta Moghaddam2 and Matthew A Siegler5, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States
09:30
How LEND sees the water on the Moon: the recent findings (80946)
Anton B. Sanin1, Igor G. Mitrofanov1, Maxim L Litvak1, Boris N Bakhtin1, Julia Bodnarik2, William V Boynton3, Gordon Chin4, Larry G. Evans5, Dmitry Golovin1, Karl Harshman2, Timothy A Livengood6, Alexey V Malakhov1, Timothy P McClanahan7, Maxim Mokrousov1, Roald Sagdeev8, Richard D Starr9 and Andrey Vostrukhin1, (1)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 693, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Computer Sciences Corporation, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (6)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 691, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, Physics, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States
09:45
Monitoring of anomalous water distribution by DAN/MSL during first U-turn observational campaign at Marias Pass area in Gale Crater (72933)
Maxim L Litvak1, Igor G. Mitrofanov1, Anton B. Sanin1, Craig J Hardgrove2, William V Boynton3, Karl Harshman4, Insoo Jun5, Denis Lisov1, Ralph Milliken6, Michael A Mischna5, Jeffrey Moersch7 and Christopher Gayle Tate7, (1)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (7)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
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