Addie Berard at Penn State has a great writeup about our new Mars beaches paper. Zhurong rover GPR imaged what we interpret to be 1.3 km of buried prograding foreshore deposits. Most shoreline work must contend with billions of yrs of erosion - not here! Article links: sites.psu.edu/planetarysed...

Happy to be part of this work from Zhurong rover data - buried beach deposits on Mars!

Amidst the chaos, I teach: sites.psu.edu/planetarysed...

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,
Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World - NASA The review takes a close look the final flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which was the first aircraft to fly on another world.

New #NASA press release on the investigation into Ingenuity’s 🚁 final flight and what may have caused the damage:

🧪 #PlanetaryScience

Stereonet pros, question for you! I have stereonets with a lot of blank space, like below. Does anyone ever make stereonets that don't show the entire hemisphere? Is that proper?? Can you even do that in matplotlib?

“Here's how the scholarly publishing scam works…”

Read this from Cory Doctorow to learn more, and understand why I don’t do work for Elsevier, the most hated member of the academic publishing cartel.

#AcademicSky

First post - Zach Baran wrapped his undergraduate thesis in December! It's about the preservation potential of shoreline features on Mars. Read about it here at our group's blog: sites.psu.edu/planetarysed...