The cool November breezes usher in a preview of the winter weather to come... ... and also a preview of your next Astro on Tap speakers 👀👀👀

Cheers to a great #LPSC2022 with the Bramson/Sori group AND our temporary adoptees! (But equal cheers to being home and sleeping)

Check out my grad student Stephanie Menten's paper on Charon in Nature Communications! Using NASA New Horizons data, we propose that Charon's red spot was created from volatiles in the interior, expressed at the surface via cryovolcanism, and transported to the poles nature.com/articles/s4146…

Really excited for my first paper to be out! Had a great time working with Mike Sori and Dr. Ali Bramson and had some really interesting and cool (ha!) results! Go check it out :)

Really fantastic write-up covering Stephanie Menten's Charon cryovolcanism work in Purdue EAPS, at Inverse by @KionaSmith07! Love the imagery of Charon's "frozen battlefield" @Research_Purdue inverse.com/science/charon…

Considering grad school in 2023 and interested in planetary geophysics, rocky planets, or icy moons? Check out my ad here and think about applying to join our team! Also consider our other great Purdue EAPS profs listed here looking for grad students eaps.purdue.edu/for_students/g…

Congrats Kris Laferriere, Purdue EAPS PhD Student, for earning the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) 2023 Career Development Award! Learn more about this award here: bit.ly/3YrZLyU #boilerup #thenextgiantleap #purdue Purdue Science Purdue University

Video recorded by #HVO geologists of the new #Kilauea eruption. This clip is from the west rim of the crater at approximately 6 a.m. HST. Telephoto view shows multiple active vent sources and lava flooding the crater floor.

“The first pictures are taken from a helicopter trip by Norðurflug over the new eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula, where Sonja Sif Þórólfsdóttir, journalist for mbl.is, and Árni Sæberg, photographer for Morgunblaðin and mbl.is, are on board.

Since it’s bound to be an FAQ: Yes, we were monitoring for ballot-stuffing! That means we also caught some of you eagerly refreshing results. We think you’re adorable & we love your enthusiasm for our silly game. 🩵

For this week’s figure we have a wonderful visualization of subsurface radar reflectors (dark color) in Jezero Crater, Mars. A strong continuous reflector is believed to be the contact of the crater floor and Jezero delta. Other reflectors are interpreted to be delta layers.

Also on Monday, PhD student Stephanie Menten will take a break from moderating that Icy Moon session to explore the idea that topography on Pluto's moon Charon is the expression of past interior convection. This work takes motivation from past studies on Mars, Ceres, and Enceladus

Really proud of our Purdue EAPS team for a great #LPSC2024 and leading a bunch of awesome presentations from the Moon to Pluto - see you next year, LPSC!

Boiler up from our research group to yours

This week’s figure features three artist impressions of Jupiter from the early 18th (a) and late 19th centuries (b,c). The authors use historical observations to argue that the earlier spot was not the ‘Great Red Spot’ we see today and constrain the changing areas of storms (1/2)

Really excited for my paper on Ariel to be out! We predict Ariel’s canyons probably have CO2 ice deposits on their floors 👀 Give it a read! 🧊❄️🧊

Really excited my recent paper was featured as an editor’s pick! We predict Uranus’ moon Ariel has carbon dioxide ice deposits in the canyons we observed with Voyager 2 🧊❄️🪐 Thank you JGR-Planets !!!

My first paper is out! Check out Mike Sori's and my proposed new structure for an ice-rich Cerean crust derived from finite element method models!