Friday morning Pamela and I both went to the session on comparative planetology. While we’d worked pretty hard to make sure we were never both in the same session, this was sort of necessary. We had to leave mid-session in order to get to the airport in time for my 2.15 flight home – so […]

It’s 1:30pm Monday and we’re settling into our first LPSC plenary session: The Masursky Lecture. Prior to the lecture they are handing out a series of awards, including an early career achievement award that goes to 6 students who have shown outstanding progress in their career in planetary science. This meeting is actually 30% student […]

I sat in on a large portion of this session about topographical features on Mars, and I have now moved outside to write my thoughts on it at a table by the pool. It’s a little odd to this Canadian to be able to comfortably sit outside in the Sun on only the 10th of […]

Hi all, this is Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society Weblog. Pamela asked me to post my reports from LPSC to Astronomy Cast, so here I am!
This is just a brief post from Houston to say I’m here and covering what I can from the first day of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. I’ve […]

This morning I’m attending an educators workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute on “Returning to the Moon.” At 8:45am on a Sunday I find my self in a room packed with formal educators, EPO professionals (that’s my category today), and coffee (sometimes the coffee gets high billing to). This forum has a neat multi-pronged […]

This is going to be another crazy wonderful week on Astronomy Cast Live. Just like we covered the American Astronomical Society meeting last January, this week we will be covering BOTH the launch of STS-123 and the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, TX. Making this possible are: Scott Miller (one of Pamela’s students […]