James Tuttle Keane

I have a theory that the loss of color TV during Apollo 12 helped to kill Apollo. We wouldn't see new TV of astronauts on the Moon until Apollo 14 (31 January-9 February 1971), by which time crucial decisions about NASA's future had been taken.

YouTube video by Seán Doran ISS - Light Fantastic

'Light Fantastic'

21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage.

Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

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‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive

The organisers of the world's biggest planetary science conference are outlawing any DEI-related submissions because their lawyers are afraid they'll lose federal support.

They're losing the support of the planetary science community fucking fast.

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Nope nope nope 🚫

Tonight!

A poster for the event I’m speaking at. The text reads: SCIENCE & SUDS NOVEMBER 17TH • 7:00 PM INSIGHTS INTO EVOLUTION & DEEP GEOLOGIC TIME FROM OUR 3.5 BILLION-YEAR-OLD MICROBIAL FOSSIL RECORD Victoria Cassady, Ph.D. Candidate Geobiology, USC A NEW ERA OF LUNAR EXPLORATION (AND HOW TO PLAN A ROADTRIP ON THE FARSIDE OF THE MOON) James Tuttle Keane, Ph.D. Planetary Scientist, JPL Los Angeles Ale Works 8809 Washington Blva Suite 132 Culver City, CA 90232 RSVP AT WWW.SCIENCEANDSUDS.COM There are also photos of each of us. My photo is of me in a Starfleet uniform on the bridge of the Enterprise.

Beer, Fossils, and the Moon!

I’ll be one of the speakers at the next “Science & Suds” on Monday, November 17th, 7pm at Los Angeles Ale Works in Culver City 🍻⚒️🌔

www.scienceandsuds.com

Everything that actually made America great is being destroyed

This is particularly sad as Lowell has long been a centre for Solar System planetary astronomy, a rare field internationally 🔭

Also, queer representation is down right now, in a culture that’s increasingly hostile to us. So we need more stories beyond the pattern of “assimilated queer couple, likely where one dies”. We deserve a wider range of queer lives on screen.

Since, in Loeb’s mind, all of these interstellar objects are alien spaceships — I just have to assume the fundamental building blocks of our Solar System were spaceships

I am happy to see Trek in LEGO, but do wish they went for something easier to do (and cheaper). A bridge set, shuttlecraft, runabout, Bird of Prey, etc…

It’s not just you. I don’t think it’s a good sign when I think their ‘gift with purchase’ (a Type 15 shuttle w/ Ro Laren) looks better than the actual set.

LEGO trying to bankrupt me.

Hey planetary scientists! I don’t know about y’all, but ADS makes my life so much easier.

it’s giving Jupiter south polar vortex tbh

Saturn as seen from Titan's polar regions. During winter season in south hemisphere a big, high altitude cloud hangs above south pole.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy

Sky-plane view of the equatorial disk model of Chiron's rings. The gray circle (98 km radius) marks Chiron itself. Black ellipses show the three narrow rings; dashed blue ellipses mark the 1/2 and 1/3 resonant zones; red ellipses indicate Roche limits.

Astronomers have discovered rings forming around a Centaur. For real: Chiron (a comet-asteroid hybrid orbiting beyond Saturn) has set of rings that seem to be changing by the year.

Regardless of what's happening on Earth, space continues to be amazing. 🧪🔭

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My old painting of a brown dwarf.
This view represents a moon of a brown dwarf being lit up by the sun-like star, which is second component of this star-brown dwarf system.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy #Exoplanets

Looks like the comic con is over, which is a bummer because I was hoping I could get the Riddler to come to my Mimas talk this morning 😔

JPL Workforce Decimated - Eos NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., laid off 550 people, a roughly 11% reduction of its workforce.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 11% of its staff today, including many people working on an active Mars rover mission. “There’s no whitewashing the ‘doomsday-eve’ feeling that's looming over all our heads,” wrote one JPL’er. eos.org/research-and...

Space Radiation Can Produce Some Organic Molecules Detected on Icy Moons - Eos As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to distinguish between radiation-made organics and those born in a subsurface sea.

The search for life's building blocks on Enceladus just got more complicated. Experiments show that radiation can also produce organics from ingredients found on the icy moon. 🔭 🧪 eos.org/articles/spa...

EPL Postdoctoral Fellowships

The application portal for the next wave of @carnegiescience.bsky.social postdoctoral fellows is open through November 3. I hope you’ll consider joining us 🚀

A dark day is coming.

Oh, no argument there. I’m just surprised they broke the NASA party line.

Watching Starship test, and they just mentioned Starship will start lunar landings in 2028. Is that just a casual statement about (an unsurprising) Artemis III slip?

JPL Workforce Update A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher

A message from JPL Director Dave Gallagher announces a JPL layoff of 500 people has been announced that is "not related to the current government shutdown". www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-wor...

Oh, and it could do climate science, too!

Think of it like GRACE + GRAIL.

This paper was led by Mike Sori, and builds off of a Caltech KISS workshop we led a few years ago.

Gravity is a powerful tool and a dedicated gravity science mission might tell us how one of Mars’s oldest/biggest geologic features—the hemispheric dichotomy—formed.

New paper out! Let’s do a gravity science mission to Mars!

The government may be shut down, but that won't stop our Save NASA Science Day of Action. Nearly 300 advocates are joining me here in D.C. on Monday to #SaveNASAScience

More: planetary.org/dayofaction