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#4thPlace #LPSChaiku #LPSC2026

Next is VERITAS PI @suesmrekar.bsky.social on New Global Map of Venusian Wrinkle Ridges from Machine Learning Models: Implications for Global Stress Fields, Predicted Seismicity and VERITAS.

#LPSCHaiku
Venus’ wrinkle ridges
Machine maps segments everywhere
Just wait for VERITAS.

#LPSC2026

Next up is Andrew Shumway looking at Regolith on the Rim of Jezero Crater and Its Relevance to Human Exploration of Mars. #LPSCHaiku:

Sand, blown by the wind
Holds strange components within
Astronauts — beware!

Abstract 1741: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...

#LPSC2026

It just occurred to me that Shearer's Masursky Lecture title is pretty much an #LPSCHaiku in and of itself.

A Long and Rocky
Road from Apollo to Ar-
Temis: Chip Shearer

#LPSC2026

The tag #lpschaiku has been used previously.

For those not familiar with this particular conference tradition:

Check out #LPSCHaiku.

@tomgauld.bsky.social

Next up is co-chair Simon Porter on Measuring the Shapes of Kuiper Belt Objects with New Horizons Photometry

#LPSCHaiku
Seven KBOs seen askew
Shapes hidden in changing light
Hinting at formation

Abstract 1646: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up is Jackson Barnes on Contact Binaries as Consequences of the Gravitational Collapse Planetesimal Formation Mechanism

#LPSCHaiku
Lovers once estranged
Unite amidst chaos and
Embrace, now made whole
Abstract 2651: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up is Jessica Noviello on Modeling Charon's Geochemical Evolution: Implications for Cryovolcanism.

#LPSCHaiku
Could freezing Charon
Oceans long ago erupt?
Ammonia matters.

Abstract 2267: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up in the Titan session is Racine Cleveland on Across the Dune Divide: A Radar Comparison of Titan and Earth’s Dune Terrain.

#LPSCHaiku
Radar scans of dunes
Titan's sands meet Earth's own face
A tale of carbon.

Abstract 2209: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up is Daniel Lalich on The Composition, Roughness, and Sediment Thickness of Titan’s Plains from Radar Backscatter Analysis.

#LPSCHaiku
Titan plains terrain
How did it become so flat?
It fell from the sky.
Abstract 2200: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Closing out Day 4 at the Solar System's largest moon at the Titan Geology and Lakes talks. First is Michael Malaska on Geological History of the Huygens Landing Site.

#LPSCHaiku
Huygens probe landed
On a distant icy world
What did it teach us?

Abstract: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up is Susan Sakimoto on Lunar Pyroclastic Glass Beads: Formation Constraints from Melt Experiments and Computational Modeling

#LPSCHaiku
Little lava beads
Metal and glass, ejected
No magmatic gas.

Abstract 2796: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

First up in the Giant Planets session is Amy Simon on The Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) Program: 10 Years of Giant Planet Monitoring.

#LPSCHaiku
Giant planets swirl
Hubble is ever watching
What trends are revealed?

Abstract 1188: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Haiku winners up.
Always a Thursday highlight.
Planet poets rock.

#LPSCHaiku
#LPSC2025

I couldn't write an #LPSCHaiku I was happy with within the 5/7/5 structure. So I borrowed the related tanka form (5/7/5/7/7) for a little more room to work.

In ancient rock slide: // Sulfur, in element form // encases rubble // and spreading atoms yonder, // clothes rocks in myriad forms.

Closing out the morning talks in Solar System Atmospheres is Kenny Phan on Neptune’s Atmospheric Features Inferred from TESS Photometry.

#LPSCHaiku
TESS photometry
Analyze peak frequencies
Proxies for big clouds?

Abstract 2734: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up is Jennifer Hanley on The Variability of Clouds on Titan: Observations and the Upcoming Saturnian Equinox.

#LPSCHaiku
Seasons are changing
Titan equinox brings storms
We're watching for clouds.

Abstract 1766: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Schurmeier's #LPSCQuatrain, a variation on the #LPSCHaiku form:

We study craters in Titan’s crust
Combining two models that we trust
Ice craters are too deep, Even with ductile creep
A clathrate layer is a must!

#LPSC2025

Next up is Patrick Shober on Confirmation of Tidal-Disruption NEA Families Despite the Apparent Absence of Meteorite Streams.

#LPSCHaiku
Families form fast
But vanish in orbit dance
Statistical soup.

Abstract 1767: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Session hopping back to Craters for Gwendolyn Brouwer's talk on Topographic Relaxation of Complex Impact Craters in a Clathrate Crust on Titan.

#LPSCHaiku
Ganymede impacts
Complex craters, relaxation
Match for Titan?

Abstract 2794: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

I can't be in two places at once bc I STILL lack a TARDIS. So I'm missing Madison Borelli's talk right now on Formation of Crater Outflows on Venus in the Crater session.

#LPSCHaiku
You may ask yourself
Crater outflows on Venus
How did they get there?

www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up in the Crater Than the Sum of Its Parts session is Uisdean Nicholson on An Impact Origin for the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea.

#LPSCHaiku
A silver bullet
Old crater controversy
Solved by new data.

Abstract 1864: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Opening up the next round in the Crater Than the Sum of Its Parts session is Matthew Huber examining Reactivity of Chicxulub Accretionary Lapilli: Testing Hydrothermal Reactions with Experimental Petrology.

#LPSCHaiku
Can ejecta change?
Buried deep after impact
Iron will nucleate.

#LPSC2025

A talk I did not see this morning, but wish I could have was Joel Hurowitz on The Detection of a Potential Biosignature by the Perseverance Rover on Mars

#LPSCHaiku
Martian rocks explored
Poppy seeds and spots galore
Biosigns? Don't ignore!

Abstract: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...

#LPSC2025

Next up is Joseph O'Rourke on True Polar Wander on Venus as an Explanation for Old, Misaligned Parabolas

#LPSCHaiku (not)
Venusian winds point west (mostly)
Old parabolas point oddly poleward (sometimes)
Is True Polar Wander the cause? (maybe)
Is this a haiku? (no).

#LPSC2025

Next is Anna Gülcher @planetaryanna.bsky.social on Diverse Tectonic Processes at Coronae on Venus as Revealed by Joint Analysis of Modeled Topography and Gravity.

#LPSCHaiku
Plumes and coronae
Gravity hides their true form
VERITAS reveals.

Abstract: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next up is Lauren Wratchford on Comparative Structural Mapping of Highlands on Venus and Cratons on Earth.

#LPSCHaiku
Cratons and highlands
Shared structures, shared formation
Twins, Earth and Venus.

Abstract 2689: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
#LPSC2025

Next in the Venus talks is Matthew Weller with Venus: Tectonics, Atmosphere, and Climate, Oh My!

#LPSCHaiku
Venus shines brightly
With an atmospheric shroud
The lid dictates all.

Abstract: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...

#LPSC2025

Closing out today's Venus Unveiled session is Ralph Lorenz' talk Veiled in Vitriol: Sulfuric Acid Vapor Abundance and Effects on Radio Propagation at Venus.

#LPSCHaiku
Venus vitriol
Dims down our radio beams
More than we thought. Oops.

Abstract 1334: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...

#LPSC2025