New Beginnings
PRELIMINARIES This is the first of a series of blog posts I’ll be writing, detailing the work I’ll be doing with Dr. Catherine Neish on the subject of characterizing and comparing the surface roughness of terrestrial lava flows at Craters of the Moon National Monument with that of lunar impact melt flows. There are 4 primary components to the problem: radar, LIDAR, surface roughness, and volcanics. I began by getting up to speed on the background and literature of the problem . The obvious starting point was Catherine’s recent paper “Terrestrial…read more