Jennifer L. Heldmann

TL;DR: The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission was designed to provide direct evidence that water ice may be presented in permanently shadowed craters of the Moon, and spectral bands of a number of other volatile compounds were observed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed data from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft to uncover trends in the dimensional and physical properties of the martian gullies and their surrounding terrain, including apparent source depth and distribution, vertical and horizontal dimensions, slopes, orientations, and present-day characteristics that affect local ground temperatures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the behavior of fluid carving the gullies on Mars and found that they were consistent with formation conditions such as now occur on Mars, outside of the temperature-pressure stability regime of liquid water.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used thermal conductivities derived from TES measurements as well as modeled surface temperatures to find that 95% of the gully alcove bases with adequate data coverage lie at depths where subsurface temperatures are greater than 273 K.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the GCM model to predict seasonal mid-latitude snowfall on Mars and find that the regions containing significant snowmelt runoff correspond to the regions identified by Heldmann and Mellon [Heldmann, J.L., Carlsson, E., Johansson, H., Mellon, M.T., Toon, O.C., Edgett, K.J., McCleese, D.J.