"I updated it a little bit since last year, but a lot of it is the same."-Parvathy Prem
You can safely skip ahead to 4:20 (The timestamp, not something else.)
Artemis is going to happen, eventually, and so Lunar stuff is heating up. This LPI is brand spank'in new, and opens up with a disclaimer that it hasn't been much updated for a year, which still counts and brand new by planetary science standards. Without a probe or telescope-time, things tend to advance to a point, and stop.
This is a very elementary lecture, but that's a good thing in this case. It covers a lot of mid-range details people miss out on. It's not that condescending form of elementary you get from NASA's websites lately. However it is directed at a student audience.
- At 17:40 she talks solar system bombardment.
- At 22:08, Lunar interior.
- 31:08, Lunar volatiles. Totally worth the whole vid.
- Lunar Volcanism at 36:50. No volcanoes you would expect, a lot of outpouring from dykes.
- That glass beads thing she mentioned at 38:20 is an interesting topic worth looking into if you've never heard of it.
- 43:07 is yet another great slide. I think I can let these slides all speak for themselves. Much of what I write in these bullets is context to set-up and simplify. I don't think that's necessary for this lecture.
- Note that she calls attention to several current and future missions. Those are going to fly, and have wiki pages.
- Closing Thoughts at 48:40.
This LPI is three days older than this post. Whereas it's very normal for me to select a lecture five years or more older, this is the first lecture LPI has posted from a very recent conference. They don't always upload many lectures, sometimes they drop several in one day. But I hope and expect this will be the first of a large batch of new videos.
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