Brian Swift's Avatar

Brian Swift

@bswift.bsky.social

Whatevs... JunoCam raw images ain't gonna process themsleves. Intel • fmr NASA JPL Radar Science SRTM • CDC Cybers anyone? • Santa Cruz (California)

2,455 Followers  |  195 Following  |  128 Posts  |  Joined: 05.08.2023  |  2.2215

Latest posts by bswift.bsky.social on Bluesky


This is silly. We know there is always a “good twin” and an “evil twin”. The soul obviously went to the good twin.

18.01.2026 06:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
SpaceX NROL-105 Launch from Santa Cruz
YouTube video by Brian Swift SpaceX NROL-105 Launch from Santa Cruz

SpaceX NROL-105 Launch from Santa Cruz, California. youtu.be/V-hpd_zAMeA

17.01.2026 08:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats to (52692) @scalzi.com from (4589)

13.01.2026 00:58 — 👍 47    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
Post image

PJ03 Jupiter Images, Exaggerated Color/Contrast. Full resolution at flic.kr/p/2rQ2PNi

04.01.2026 06:38 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
Jupiter PJ03_120 and PJ03_114 Exaggerated Color/Contrast
YouTube video by Brian Swift Jupiter PJ03_120 and PJ03_114 Exaggerated Color/Contrast

Jupiter images processed from raw data collected by Juno spacecraft on Dec 11 2016 from altitudes 45,305 and 8,733 km. youtube.com/shorts/IS6RH...

03.01.2026 23:13 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
"In every object, its previous forms must live on in some rudimentary way", part II - #1, digital collage
A surreal digital collage showing the lower half of a female model’s face with red lips and hands touching her cheeks. The upper part of her head is replaced by a large image of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno mission, with swirling cloud patterns. A smaller image of Jupiter’s moon Io overlaps the planet near the center. The background is minimal and light gray, contrasting with the black space above the planet.

source images:  
JUPITER | JNCE_2023174_52C00133_V01
IO | JNCE_2023364_57C00022_V01

model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social 

Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY

#Jupiter

"In every object, its previous forms must live on in some rudimentary way", part II - #1, digital collage A surreal digital collage showing the lower half of a female model’s face with red lips and hands touching her cheeks. The upper part of her head is replaced by a large image of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno mission, with swirling cloud patterns. A smaller image of Jupiter’s moon Io overlaps the planet near the center. The background is minimal and light gray, contrasting with the black space above the planet. source images: JUPITER | JNCE_2023174_52C00133_V01 IO | JNCE_2023364_57C00022_V01 model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY #Jupiter

1/2🧵🟠🟣⚪ "In every object, its previous forms must live on in some rudimentary way", part II - #1, digital #collage

model: Dione @dionek.bsky.social

The entire project is on my website: tinyurl.com/2vk83fuw

Credit : #NASA / #SwRI / #MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY
#Jupiter #Io #Juno

30.12.2025 19:09 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
Screenshot of website emulating a green screen terminal connected to a Unix v4 system

Screenshot of website emulating a green screen terminal connected to a Unix v4 system

Unix v4 circa 1973 available from your browser at unixv4.dev from discuss.systems/@danielcowen...

30.12.2025 20:05 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Never-mind. Delayed again.

29.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Vandenberg Space Force Base Update as of 5:42 p.m. Saturday, Dec.27: this launch has been rescheduled for Sunday, Dec. 28 at 6:08 p.m. ———————————————————————— The U.S. Space Force has approved a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with a....

For California folks. Launch now planned for 6:08 PM Sunday (12/28) evening. An hour after sunset, so might get Space-Jellyfish effect. www.facebook.com/SLD30/posts/...

29.12.2025 00:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Scrubbed until Sunday.

28.12.2025 02:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'll be watching at Lighthouse Point, Santa Cruz.

28.12.2025 01:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Vandenberg Space Force Base The U.S. Space Force has approved a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with a return-to-base landing, scheduled to lift off at 6:08 p.m. Pacific Time, Saturday, Dec. 27, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at the...

For folks in California. Launch planned from 6:08 PM Saturday (12/27) evening. An hour after sunset, so might get Space-Jellyfish effect.🚀🪼 www.facebook.com/SLD30/posts/...

28.12.2025 01:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Santa Cruz Boat Parade 2025
YouTube video by Brian Swift Santa Cruz Boat Parade 2025

Disco at the North Pole youtu.be/Jkur-Wt5LPg

07.12.2025 06:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Downtown Santa Cruz Holiday Parade LIVESTREAM YouTube video by Downtown Santa Cruz

Our local parade live from Santa Cruz CA www.youtube.com/live/cB7m-oS...

06.12.2025 18:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

The global color Mars map from China's Tianwen-1 MoRIC (medium res camera) is back online! On clpds.bao.ac.cn/service/#/ma... as 46 GB TIFF behind icon on the right side. Scientific article about this map, the only complete Mars color map since the Viking Orbiters: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

29.11.2025 21:52 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
Post image

Wasn't expecting Kpop Demon Hunters Chili at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's chili cook-off today.

26.10.2025 05:43 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
1. The NISAR image taken by one of the WorldView Legion satellites
2. Same image with vector info showing orientation of NISAR relative to its imaging targets.
Source: Vantor

1. The NISAR image taken by one of the WorldView Legion satellites 2. Same image with vector info showing orientation of NISAR relative to its imaging targets. Source: Vantor

An intriguing hi-res photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite with its 12m antenna fully unfurled in space. The pic was taken on Aug 21 by one of the earth observation satellites in the Vantor (formerly Maxar) Constellation.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#PlanetSci

17.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Post image Post image

Good turnout for #NoKings march in Santa Cruz California.

18.10.2025 21:32 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The moon

The moon

Shooting through a little marine layer to #observethemoon from Santa Cruz California.

05.10.2025 04:57 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
2008 Mazda 3 odometer reading 333334

2008 Mazda 3 odometer reading 333334

“Missed it by that much”

05.10.2025 02:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Science Outreach at the Burning Man Art Festival (Jamie Molaro, 09/17/2025)
YouTube video by Planetary Science Institute Science Outreach at the Burning Man Art Festival (Jamie Molaro, 09/17/2025)

Vid of @spacejammie.bsky.social showing off cool Burning Man Informal Outreach projects youtu.be/dkGPpcjIsN8?...

27.09.2025 05:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Preview
Xenomythology with Jason Batt In this episode of CosmoQuest After Hours, we introduce you to Dr Candy Hansen, a Senior Scientist at the co-leader of the JunoCam investigation payload on t...

Also, join Candy for a discussion on JunoCam on the PSI-produced show CosmoQuest After Hours. This one is titled "JunoCam: Seeing Jupiter through the eyes of multitudes" and it airs Friday, Sept. 26 at 11am MST/2pm EDT. 🔭 🧪

buff.ly/onL2FqK

23.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
A Tour of Starfront Observatories!
YouTube video by Bray Falls A Tour of Starfront Observatories!

Tour of the Texas dark skies telescope ranch starfront.space www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktd...

31.08.2025 19:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry Marc. Hugs.

06.08.2025 05:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe 12VDC out of generator to a sine wave inverter.

03.08.2025 05:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Burn Sequence Episode 3: Jeff Armstrong
YouTube video by United Launch Alliance The Burn Sequence Episode 3: Jeff Armstrong

youtube.com/watch?v=TFVv...

03.08.2025 01:37 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Video thumbnail

Congrats to JPL radar peeps and everyone responsible for REASON instrument and creation of radargram captured during Europa Clipper March 1 Mars flyby. Strip image at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... REASON (open access) paper at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

03.08.2025 02:52 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

"Damn, B." deserves a follow on the off chance it's a Buffy/Faith reference.

01.08.2025 06:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

+1 to Anthropic for naming their agentic AI infra Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) which non-coincidentally also stands for Master-Control-Program, the protagonist in Tron. EOL

01.08.2025 05:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

30.07.2025 01:38 — 👍 842    🔁 210    💬 6    📌 14

@bswift is following 20 prominent accounts