Next up is Carey Lisse on Preliminary Results from the First Six Months of SPHEREx All-Sky Survey Solar System Observations.
Note: Today is Day 2 of #LPSC2026. SPHEREx was launched on Day 2 of #LPSC2025
Abstract 1833: www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps...
SPHEREx site: spherex.caltech.edu
#LPSC2026
"It's like realizing a crime scene has a totally new kind of evidence you didn't know you had before...It might not help you solve the crime right away, but considering the importance of the task, new details to compare are always welcome. " - @teddykareta.bsky.social
#LPSC2025
Mine for @space.com
This is insane and seems to have been somebody travelling to #LPSC2025. I imagine most of us who headed there would be in trouble if they searched our phones for messages criticizing the 🇺🇸 President....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A French scientist traveling to the US for this year's #LPSC2025 had her phone searched and her entry denied because they had posted critically of the regime.
No one should travel to the US right now. It should be considered an authoritarian rouge state with all the safety concerns that implies.
So this sounds like it could have been in relation to #LPSC2025
-traveling to Houston
-arrest was on (Sun) 9 Mar
-researcher from French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I am now told that this was someone who was supposed to be at #LPSC2025.
Require that our professional associations loudly object to this; planetary scientists.
And may LPI yell at every member of Congress from Texas.
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This was presumably the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference #LPSC2025
Was this #lpsc2025?
Just in case you weren't aware or forgot (looks in mirror), @lpitoday.bsky.social has made sure that videos of all of the talks & iPosters from last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference are online in the #LPSC2025 virtual environment for registered attendees: lpsc2025.vfairs.com/en/hall
Just finished one more bonus #LPSC2025 sketch. So much great science, and not enough time!
A photograph of a sketch that I did summarizing Sabina Raducan’s talk from LPSC 2025. The sketch is in my conference notebook and is done on a roughly 5 x 7” page in pencil and pen. The sketch shows the Didymos and Dinkinesh asteroid and their satellites. these two asteroids are similar and have recently been explored by NASA and ESA missions. Didymos is in ellipsoidal moon with a nearby similarly ellipsoidal satellite Dimorphos. Dinkinesh is a top shaped asteroid shown in the middle with a bilobate moon, Selam, that orbits further away. For each of the different asteroid systems, I have drawn the different spacecraft that have flown by, into or will soon arrive, including the dart mission which impacted Dimorphos, along with the light LICIACube small sat; the Hers mission, which will arrive in 2026 with two small sets Milani and Juventas; and Lucy, which flew by Dinkinesh in 2023. The authors use the DART impact to calibrate their SPH simulations of the formation of asteroid moons via mergers of smaller satellites. They hypothesis that Selam formed from the merger of four moonlets. they point to the bilobafe shape and the ridges on both bodies as evidence, speculating with the ridges formed from mergers of satellites.
Sabina Raducan—The DART impact provided an opportunity to calibrate models of asteroid properties and dynamics. They used this to study how asteroid moons, like Selam (the moon of Dinkinesh observed by the Lucy mission), formed. #LPSC2025
OK researchers of #LPSC2025: what do you wish you knew more about regarding science communicating? That runs the gambit from talking to the press all the way to doing it yourself.
I’ve been trying to train my department on comms10 minute talks and graphic design for 4 years with zero success but good luck to you #LPSC2025
Post #LPSC2025 thread: curious to hear from others: what did *you* get from meeting presentations?
Do you prefer the “a year of work in one talk/poster” with lots of results or the “details on one small bit and how it fits into a larger project”?
What do you remember, without checking notes?
A photo of the total lunar eclipse from March 2025 as viewed from the goose‘s acre, a bar in the Woodlands, Texas next to the LPC venue. To the right, you can see a small moon off in the distance, which is partially covered by a red shadow. The moon looms in a deep blue sky. To the left, you can see the brick façade at the front of the bar and the green sign that displays the name of the bar, the goose‘s acre, bistro and Irish pub.
A lunar eclipse, viewed from a lunar conference (or at least the conference-designated bar) #LPSC2025
#LPSC2025 was my last LPSC as an undergrad/active member of Baylor’s Planetary Research Group. I’m grateful for these people who have poured into me so well! Onto the next! @alyssacmills96.bsky.social @peterbjames.bsky.social @geophyswags.bsky.social
The whole Mercury session and BepiColombo results were fantastic. Big ups to that entire team at @esa.int and JAXA. #LPSC2025
Image of a wrist wearing a solar system bracelet
Image of a wrist wearing a solar system bracelet
Image of a wrist wearing a solar system bracelet
Look at the gorgeous solar system bracelet I bought from @elakdawalla.bsky.social at #LPSC2025 !!
elakdawalla.etsy.com
Two-tone purple square graphic, titled “are you worried about the future of planetary science?” in big purple font. Below says “Join us for Office Hours. March 17th, 14:00 - 16:00 EDT. We’ll chat about our feelings, learn how to organize & mobilize, and practice envisioning a just future for science.” In the lower left is a QR code with link tiny.cc/LPSC-OfficeHours. In the lower right is a black circle under which says “ABOLISH PLANETS” in heavy bolded font.
#LPSC2025 might be over, but if you'd like to continue thinking about next steps and what to do next about the future of planetary science, office hours will be next Monday, 1400-1600 EDT! You can sign up here: tiny.cc/LPSC-OfficeHours
A photograph of a sketch in my notebook from LPSC 2025. The sketch is of Joe O’Rourke’s talk about true or wonder of Venus as an explanation for Misaligned parabolas. in the top left is a sketch of an impact occurring on the surface of Venus. The impact throws a lot of material up into the atmosphere. In the bottom left is a sketch of what happens afterwards, where the prevailing Westward wins push that material Westward. As the material rains back down to the surface, it forms a dark parabola with the impact crater near the Apex and a dark parabolic set of wings trailing off to the west. Joe noticed that the older parabolas are misaligned with the prevailing modern day wind direction. he hypothesizes that Venus actually re-oriented, a process known as true polar wonder. In this hypothesis, the parabola originally formed pointing glass along the persistent Westward wind direction. However, overtime ( millions of years), the planet reoriented, and these problem, no longer perfectly pointed west. More recent parabolas do point West. Illustrate this on the right I’ve drawn two globes of Venus, the one on the top is Venus in the past with a red spin axis and lines of constant latitude drawn in parallel. I’ve drawn red Westwood facing parabola on the globe. On the second globe, I draw a modern Venus where the spin pool has changed, and the red axis is now a pale pole pointing off to the upper left the red parabola have now been relented and no longer point West. Newer parabolas in blue are pointing west
Joe O’Rourke—Venusian parabolas tend to face west due to the prevaling winds, but older parabolas are misaligned. Perhaps Venus itself reoriented! #LPSC2025
The Galactic Journey Of Our Solar System
astrobiology.com/2025/03/the-... #astrobiology #astronomy #LPSC2025
Computing Anharmonic Infrared Spectra of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics
astrobiology.com/2025/03/comp... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy #LPSC2025
Planetesimal Impact Vapor Plumes and Nebular Shocks form Chondritic Mixtures
astrobiology.com/2025/03/plan... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy #LPSC2025
CARMENES as an Instrument for Exoplanet Research
astrobiology.com/2025/03/carm... #astrobiology #exoplanet #astronomy #LPSC2025
Parameter Degeneracies Associated With Interpreting HST WFC3 Transmission Spectra Of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
astrobiology.com/2025/03/para... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy #exoplanet #LPSC2025
Quantify The Way Rivers Bend - Possibly Identifying The Origins Of Channels On Other Planets
astrobiology.com/2025/03/quan... #astrobiology #astrogeology #Mars #Moon #LPSC2025
Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON)
astrobiology.com/2025/03/bien... #astrobiology #LPSC2025
MIRI-LRS Spectrum Of A Cold Exoplanet Around A White Dwarf: Water, Ammonia, And Methane Measurements
astrobiology.com/2025/03/miri... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astronomy #exoplanet #LPSC2025
Thrilled to announce that I was able to fully execute my vision and play this video for a room full of scientists at #LPSC2025
