126 Evolving Moon: Recent Advances in Understanding Our Planetary Neighbor From NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Other Missions

Monday, 1 November 2010
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 502

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  USING THE MOON FOR SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION
  Clive R. Neal, Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
  182548 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  MOUNTAINS IN MINUTES AND MELT SEAS IN SECONDS ON THE MOON: THE ROLE OF IMPACT BASINS IN LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
  James Head, Brown University, Providence, RI
  181698 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  DESTINATION SOUTH POLE-AITKEN BASIN: SAMPLE RETURN, GEOLOGY OF THE MOON, AND RECORD OF SOLAR SYSTEM CATACLYSM
  B.L. Jolliff, Washington University, St. Louis, MO and Ryan A. Zeigler, Washington University, St. Louis, MO and L.R. Gaddis, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ and Charles Shearer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Barbara Cohen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL and Justin J. Hagerty, Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ and James Head, Brown University, Providence, RI and Noah Petro, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD and Carle M. Pieters, Brown University, Providence, RI and Paul H. Warren, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  182053 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  TOPOGRAPHY AND GEODESY OF THE MOON FROM THE LUNAR ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (LOLA)
  Maria T. Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and David E. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Gregory A. Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD and Erwan Mazarico, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  179178 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  LOLA TEST OF CANDIDATE LARGE LUNAR IMPACT BASINS PREVIOUSLY FOUND USING OLDER TOPOGRAPHY AND CRUSTAL THICKNESS DATA
  Herbert V. Frey, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD and Gregory Romine, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
  178900 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  LUNAR SINUOUS RILLES ORIGINATING IN HIGHLAND SETTINGS: REVELATIONS FROM LRO
  W. Brent Garry, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ and Mark S. Robinson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Lisa R. Gaddis, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ and Livio Tornabene, University of Western Ontario, London, ON
  181002 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  USING MINI-RF TO IMPROVE ACCURACY OF LUNAR TiO2 DISTRIBUTION MAPS
  Jeffrey J. Gillis-Davis, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI and David Trang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI and Ben Bussey, Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD and Kevin K. Williams, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY and Lynn M. Carter, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  180062 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  THE GEOLOGY OF THE APOLLO 17 TAURUS-LITTROW SITE IN LIGHT OF LRO IMAGERY
  Harrison H. Schmitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Albuquerque, NM and Mark S. Robinson, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  181497 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE HUMAN EXPLORATION FROM RECENT ROBOTIC MISSIONS
  Jeffrey Plescia, MP3-E169, Laurel, MD
  178829 (Technical Sessions)