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Large -- Medium Me packing while Gwen and the kids look on. |
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Large -- Medium Brian Jackson's talk on Basin and Range. |
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Large -- Medium Halo around the sun, taken with low-cost coronagraph. |
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Large -- Medium 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. |
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Large -- Medium Milling for lunch on the road through the bombing range. |
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Large -- Medium John Keller talks about the remote sensing of planetary atmospheres |
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Large -- Medium Complex visuals are difficult to show out in the field! |
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Large -- Medium Where's that fieldtrip whiteboard? |
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Large -- Medium Curtis in food coma. |
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Large -- Medium 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. |
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Large -- Medium View toward the Painted Rock Mountains. |
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Large -- Medium Doug Archer stands on a dark -- and unanticipated -- desert pavement. |
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Large -- Medium The areas that look dark from orbit are made up of desert pavement -- desert varnished rocks that coat the top surface. |
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Large -- Medium The light areas are the streambeds lower than and between the dark, desert pavement areas. These are covered with light-colored silt. |
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Large -- Medium Nicole Baugh talks about the Gila River and the Painted Rock dam near this location. |
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Large -- Medium Painted Rock Reservoir in background. |
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Large -- Medium 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. |
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Large -- Medium More solar/cloud radiation interaction observations, this one of a sundog. |
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Large -- Medium 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. |
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Large -- Medium Mike Bland talks about the lobate scarp features that you can see behind the group there. |
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Large -- Medium Colin Dundas, Brian Jackson, Doug Archer, and Nicole Baugh look down on a 10 m drop into a basalt lava tube. |
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Large -- Medium Sunset from the campsite. |