Attending #LPSC2026? And do you like board games? I’ll be hosting 1-2 game nights. Monday night I’m trying to get 2 more for SETI (the current best space game out there… does take 3 hrs). And Wednesday night. Message me/ comment if interested.
The #LPSC2026 Town Center Exhibit Hall is open Monday through Thursday. For an up-to-date list of exhibitors and booth locations, visit https://ow.ly/11hn50YtNa7.
This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
It's about 1 km tall.
If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.
#cat #caturday 🤍🖤
Rocks.
On Mars.
Photographed today.
NEW: Remember in 2022 when NASA booped an asteroid with a kamikaze spacecraft to prove they could swat away Earthbound space rocks and save the world?
Well it turns out they booped it *so hard* that the bigger asteroid nearby ALSO got booped!
Me @ NatGeo www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Rivers are living beings.
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
Directorates to follow
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Just very relaxed Oreo 🐄 🐈
#cats #caturday #cowcat
We did some GPR in class today with the students, led by a geophysicist:
"Have you ever watched those crime shows where they use GPR and have a high resolution of a dead body image buried underground? That’s basically what we’re doing, except without the high-resolution part."
Blue wing #sketchbook #oilpainting #art
listen, girls need pockets because we need a place to put cool rocks and shit
#cat #caturday #blackcat
Tuna at the new screened porch!
My dog when I have to say "WHAT ARE YOU EATING" on a walk
Occasionally reminded that Georgia added a “post tenure review” process bc they were so certain that professors became deadweight once they had job security, and all the outcomes have proven JUST THE OPPOSITE! People work harder and in more complex ways when they feel secure in their employment.
#cat #caturday with Oreo. The boy who is still sick and under quarantine 🤧
And smaller cars, better public transit, and more bike infrastructure.
As a geoscientist, I agree with this message:
HiPOD: Looking for Avalanches
The North Polar layered deposits are large deposits of dusty water-ice in the northern polar region of Mars. One interesting aspect Is that we have observed numerous avalanche events here.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_069857_2650
#Mars #science #NASA
Happy Galena-tines!
Rhodochrosite with Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite.
When hit, Galena will break along three directions of weakness that meet at right angles, creating smaller cubes. Galena’s hardness is similar to that of a fingernail.
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How intriguing is this view of Jupiter's rocky moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the Solar System? 🔭 🧪⚛️
This is a gift coming from Juno spacecraft that made a 2nd close flyby...
Pic by NASA/SwRI/MSSS
Mission Phase: PERIJOVE 58
➡️ missionjuno.swri.edu
#space #astronomy #science
#FossilFriday Cousins in life, companions in death. Belemnite guard by chance preserved in the body chamber of the ammonite Parkinsonia from the Jurassic.
890 pages of light reading... ⚒️
NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Sol 1,770 (11th February, 2026)
Close-ups of a new abrasion and part of the adjacent rock floor
SHERLOC WATSON cam
S/D 85/0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Martian-Observer
Source: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...
‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m...
📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale
#urbangeology
Welcome back to #TrilobiteTuesday
Here is Asaphus lepidurus from the Middle Ordovician rocks of St. Petersburg, Russia. Trilobites from these limestones have a beautiful caramel colored shell and are preserved three-dimensionally!
Oddly, I had a hard time thinking of Venus as a sedimentary active place. But there is an atmosphere with wind, there is physical and (strong) chemical erosion, there is tectonic to form gradients... so, yes, of course it's sedimentary active. 🧪
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
HiPOD: Troughs and Ridges in Chryse Planitia
This image presents us with wide troughs with a narrow ridge running down the middle. How did these form? Chryse Planitia is flat lowland region in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076659_2105
#Mars #science #NASA
No new pictures. Where you at mentally?
That happens to me a few times as well. It is even worse when your field or topic is very niche...
