LPSC 2009: Little asteroids on Mars lead to ice
A graduate student on my shuttle bus to the conference center tipped me off to a couple of really cool abstracts, presented on Tuesday and tomorrow. I was all set to push for a story about them. But then a) the authors didn’t want to talk to me about it, because they’re hoping the work will make a splash in a journal-which-will-not-be-named, and b) I realized that my eagle-eyed editor had, like MRO, already spotted the work, and its novelty, when the authors were presenting it at AGU in December. Read more