Future space missions to the Moon, Mars, and the outer planets will incorporate surface geophysical instrumentation. Current mission plans include provision for seismometers, heat flow experiments, and thermal and electrical conductivity for example. These instruments have the potential to vastly improve our knowledge of planetary surfaces and interiors.
This meeting will review results from past experiments (such as the Apollo seismometers), discuss current geophysical instrumentation proposed for future missions such as MoonLITE and Aurora and how best to maximise the science return. A major aim of this meeting is to bring together the solid Earth and planetary science communities in order to determine how best to exploit future datasets, guide mission design, and foster future collaborations.
The meeting will comprise morning and afternoon sessions of invited talks and a poster session to help stimulate discussion.
Program
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Tea and Coffee | |
| 10:30 | 10:40 | Introduction | |
| 10:40 | 11:10 | Tilman Spohn | Interiors of terrestrial planets: Moon and Mars |
| 11:10 | 11:40 | Bruce Banerdt | Surface-Based Geophysics on the Terrestrial Planets |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Mike Kendall | Imaging planets using seismology: lessons learned from Earth |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Alan Smith | Penetrators for Planetary Exploration and Science |
| 12:20 | 12:40 | Graham Stuart | Strategies for seismological exploration of the planets - an Earth perspective |
| 12:40 | 14:00 | Lunch+Posters | |
| 14:00 | 14:20 | Tom Pike | A Microseismometer for Planetary Exploration |
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Axel Hagermann | Apollo lunar surface geophysics - what we know we don't know, we know we know, and we might not know we know |
| 14:40 | 13:00 | Richard Katz | Magma Dynamics in the Terrestrial Mantle |
| 13:00 | 13:30 | Guided discussion | |
| 15:30 | END |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Tea at the Geological Society |
| 16:00 | 18:00 | RAS Monthly A&G (Ordinary) Meeting |
| 18:00 | 19:00 | Drinks Reception (in the RAS' Burlington House Apartments) |
If you would like to contribute a poster please email the poster title to Nick Teanby (teanby<at>atm.ox.ac.uk) with "RAS poster" as the subject before November 6th.
Posters will be viewable during the lunch break. This will be a good opportunity for informal discussion of your work. Poster boards are portrait orientation - 6ft high by 3ft wide.
Meeting Details
For details of the meeting location and other details please see
The RAS meeting website