Sediment plumes and fractured sea ice trace swirling eddies in a branch of the Nansen Sound fjord system.
A zoom on the first image.
A zoom on the first image.
NASA Earth Observatory image of the day
Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters
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Credits: images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
🧪🔭
Locations of my research talks of the last two months (mid Jan-mid March), I’m currently speaking about “From Ejecta to “Wind Streaks”: Interpreting New Impacts on Mars and the Moon”. Full abstract below.
If you want to invite me to speak at your institution, feel free to reach out!
Don't be fooled but this innocent-seeming heart.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Mars is a cold hell hole
And will absolutely fucking kill you
It made me laugh. I think it was a laughter of relief that I am not crazy seeing the same thing...
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Isn't it ironic that the community's asked to help determine priorities for the next decade for free & later gets served a catastrophic bill
"we will need to make difficult choices... ceasing or reducing investments [in funded projects]"
Never seen anything like this...
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Beautiful aurora seen last night during high geomagnetic activity❗
Automatic auroral recognition routine classifying All-Sky Camera images acquired at the Kevo station in Northern Finland by FMI as a demonstration product👇
🌐 swe.ssa.esa.int/fmi-federated
I wish this was AI generated.
Can't wait, St Andrews is a beautiful place!
This is absolutely amazing. It's sad to watch what happens to LPSC, once "the place to be". This year EPSC is happening in The Hague, the home of international courts (and accidentally, the destination can have a symbolic meaning). I hope that many American colleagues will come to Europe instead!
LPI will not support the community by bending the knee.
I submitted an abstract to LPSC 2026.
I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment.
(1/2)
I'm also out.
Photo taken from space of an impact crater on Mars, seen as a red burst of ejecta around the center circle, slightly to the left of center. Around the starburst of ejecta, the surface is covered in white carbon dioxide ice.
#PPOD: This image shows a new impact crater on Mars that formed between July and September 2018. It's notable because it occurred in the seasonal southern ice cap and has apparently punched through it, creating a two-toned blast pattern. 🧪 🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
My deepest condolences to everyone affected by the events of last night in the Brown University community. Words escape me. Nobody's safety should be violated in this most despicable way. Reach out to your friends and colleagues, take some time to process and grieve. Your wellbeing comes first.
The registration for the 2026 @planetarymapping.bsky.social Winter School is open: www.planetarymapping.eu
One just needs a very affordable @europlanetmedia.bsky.social membership
Materials will be of openly available after the school @coop.planetary-research.org @openplanetary.solarsystem.social
and the initiatives like this one working behind the scenes together across fields and generations. More info will follow over the next year, so if you are curious what I am talking about, make sure to follow UK Near Earth Object (NEO) Community's updates!
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You are looking at the big part of a taskforce that took it upon themselves to drive positive change to the benefit UK space sector and population. It is an exciting time, with the UK Space Frontiers 2035 effort setting the stage for space priorities for the next decade,
NEO Community Day
Great news for the UK planetary defence and research involving asteroids / comets and impacts: during the NEO Community Day at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social a group of folks from academia, industry and government mapped the capabilities of the community and made ambitious plans for the future.
Congratulations!
Cuts to geology programmes, departmental mergers and shrinking university support threaten the long-term health of the discipline. Now, Jan Zalasiewicz examines the developing situation at the University of Leicester: geoscientist.online/sections/vie...
#Geology #Geoscience #HigherEducation
Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre.
It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky.
But it's us.
It's Earth.
From Mars.
Two years ago, asteroid 2023 CX1 was spotted seven hours before it struck Earth's atmosphere over northern France. Now, researchers have published an analysis of the event and the recovered meteorite that challenges our asteroid hazard models: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Image: M. Uzzal
Applying for research funding in 2027
Image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter showing rockfalls and their trails in the Oxia Planum region. Image credit: Aleksandra Sokołowska (Imperial College)/NASA/HiRISE/University of Arizona.
An image of a crater in Oxia Planum, presented in false colour from the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The blue and oranges sections show multiple layers of clay units deposited in Oxia Planum and revealed at the crater wall. Image credit: Ananya Srivastava (University of Western Ontario)/NASA/HiRISE/University of Arizona.
Mars rover Rosalind Franklin: chances of finding evidence of past life on Mars boosted by two studies
www.europlanet.org/how-the-stuf... #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci
I love my job as a professor, but increasingly it feels like being a lottery winner in the academic hunger games. The best advice for most people thinking about a PhD is: don't.
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Ania Łosiak introduced the plans to build a new educational center in Morasko, Poznan, where a very rare strewn field of craters is located. impakt-morasko.pl
#EPSCDPS2025
Our research paper on rockfalls near the landing site of @esa.int rover is now covered in the press release from @europlanetmedia.bsky.social
Come see me at my poster this evening! #EPSCDPS2025
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A. Book cover of "Finnish Nightmare" by Karolina Korhonen. B. Image of a rockfall on Earth vs Mars.
Credits: NASA/JPL/Univ. Of Arizona (Mars); AP/BBC News (Earth)
Im in love with Finland (exhibit a for context) but... Ill be on my most social behavior when I present my poster about the discovery and characterization of rockfalls (exhibit b) in the region of explor. of a future European rover on Thur. Come see me at #epscdps2025
