Me packing while Gwen and the kids look on.
Brian Jackson's talk on Basin and Range.
Halo around the sun, taken with low-cost coronagraph.
Without the coronagraph. Protoplanetary disk observers would claim that this shows a clear hole in the center of a dust disk, and that that hole clearly indicates a planet clearing the gap. The planet must have a mass of 0.7 Jupiter masses, a semimajor axis of 170 AU, and an eccentricity of near zero.
Milling for lunch on the road through the bombing range.
John Keller talks about the remote sensing of planetary atmospheres
while others look on.
Complex visuals are difficult to show out in the field!
Where's that fieldtrip whiteboard?
Curtis in food coma.
Zibi (and me, too, really) tries to get some perspective on the 10-100m scale gully features that John Keller talked about east of the Painted Rock mountains.
View toward the Painted Rock Mountains.
Doug Archer stands on a dark -- and unanticipated -- desert pavement.
The areas that look dark from orbit are made up of desert pavement -- desert varnished rocks that coat the top surface.
The light areas are the streambeds lower than and between the dark, desert pavement areas. These are covered with light-colored silt.
Nicole Baugh talks about the Gila River and the Painted Rock dam near this location.
Painted Rock Reservoir in background.
The self-appointed "foremost world's expert" on the beautiful rock art at the Painted Rocks State Park -- a sweet and sincere lady, but ultimately a quack who thinks that all of the rocks are in the shape of constellations.
More solar/cloud radiation interaction observations, this one of a sundog.
Some rock imprintings that are clearly astronomical. The expert thinks that they represent the 1054AD supernova, which I don't buy but I can't yet rule out.
Mike Bland talks about the lobate scarp features that you can see behind the group there.
Colin Dundas, Brian Jackson, Doug Archer, and Nicole Baugh look down on a 10 m drop into a basalt lava tube.
Sunset from the campsite.