Wow. This is a fascinating set of models. And they're about why these rocks are on the surface! Impact events make sense, but the atmosphere is so thick, burning up meteors, it seems like the chances of landing right by an exposed set of rock like that from a recent enough impact would be fairly slim. The downwelling/convection model makes a little more sense. That was what I was trying to figure out. Not an astro-geologist here, just a garden variety HN dropout designer/coder. But I always secretly wanted to work for NASA. I appreciate the kind word. This definitely sparked my curiosity ;)
You always can! There are tons of outreach communities, and good design + programming skillsets are always needed.
If you're on ClubHouse, I'm happy to invite you to Small Steps & Giant Leaps, we have regular "rooms" with folks at NASA, ESA, the private space industry and (soon) JAXA.
Aw man that sounds so great. I'm not on any of those platforms. But I wanted to share this with you. When I was about 7-8 years old, my best friend's dad worked at JPL. He gave me this folder with a thick stack of 8x10 color glossy photos, explanations on the back, from the Voyager missions. I keep it on my bookshelf. I just scanned a few for you. This is the stuff I grew up with. You can contact me @ the owner of said website.
[edit] I've been crawled 45 times by Baidu in the last 15 minutes so . uh. I'm taking that link down. I really would love to continue this conversation and just add my brain to the mix if there's some cool way to do that.
