@kevinmgill.bsky.social
Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL, Los Angeles. Curiosity Rover ECAM PUL. Saturn native, commutes to Jupiter. USMC vet. Opinions are mine https://apoapsys.com
Yup. Kinda hot down there 🥵
21.11.2025 04:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, it does appear to be made up of a different material. I can’t quite make out what mineral(s) it is or how it got there.
21.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A green rock
A green rock
A green rock
A gray rock with a pocket of green and black crystals on it.
Serpentine and a completely unrelated chunk of basalt and peridotite.
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A glassy green rock with minerals in needle-like crystals
A glassy green rock with minerals in needle-like crystals
A glassy green rock with minerals in needle-like crystals
A glassy green rock with minerals in needle-like crystals
Learned how to do proper focus bracketing on my camera and took some new pictures of some actinolite schist and serpentine rocks I found recently.
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Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Sol 1688 MastCam-Z images of an intriguing rock near the Mars Perseverance Rover. Natural and white balanced color.
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I learned a long time ago to avoid the comments under any NASA content like the plague.
Though I’m sure the comments will provide some interesting and dark research data to some sociologists 1000 years from now…
Man, I would rather it be a bowl of cookies n cream ice cream!
19.11.2025 22:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HiRISE Image of Exocomet 3I/ATLAS!
On 2 October 2025, MRO turned away from Mars to image 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed passing through our solar system!
https://www.uahirise.org/releases/3i-atlas/
A white with black spot rock with an elongated crystal in it. Only the right side of that crystal is reflecting light despite the shared surface being nominally flat
A white with black spot rock with an elongated crystal in it. Only the right side of that crystal is reflecting light despite the shared surface being nominally flat
A white with black spot rock with an elongated crystal in it. The rock is held at an angle so as not to reflect sunlight.
Had to learn about the phenomenon of Crystal Twinning to answer why this oligoclase crystal was only reflective on one side at a time.
This is in a chunk of granodiorite found near Alta Dena, CA.
Violent nuclear explosions on Earth: Really bad.
Violent nuclear explosions in space:
Forgot to put the credit line in the alt text…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
The crests of two ridges to the west and northwest of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Imaged using MastCam-Z yesterday on Sol 1687.
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A pair of peaks over a rising martian landscape. A Waffle House just out of frame to the right shows that the view is facing southeast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
Afternoon Sol 1686 MastCam-Z mosaic of the Jezero Crater rim from the Mars Perseverance Rover.
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Mosaic of images stitched together to form an inside perspective of a slice of Saturn’s rings. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
In June 2017, immediately following passage low above the cloudtops of Saturn, Cassini used its Cosmic Dust Analyzer instrument on a study of the rings. Because their pointing matched, the cameras were able to take one of humanity’s first views from inside the vast ring system.
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A rough green crystal in a serpentine matrix
A rough green crystal in a serpentine matrix
A rough green crystal in a serpentine matrix
Green crystal in serpentinite found nearby. Just serpentine? Williamsite? Actinolite?
17.11.2025 04:21 — 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0IRIDESCENT CLOUD ON MARS
15.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 501 🔁 100 💬 7 📌 1Nuclear weapons. Might cost a bit more than the $1 million prize, but if I destroy the snail and the entire world around it, I might just make it. I’d have to be very sneaky about it, though, so the snail or its vast intelligence network doesn’t find out beforehand.
15.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is it super intelligent relative to average snail intelligence or human intelligence? This matters
15.11.2025 17:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I did run. When he took out a chainsaw and headed straight at me!
15.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Time to bust out the leaf blower
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A snail on concrete.
A snail on concrete.
A snail on concrete.
A snail on concrete.
Little garden snail making its way across a concrete sidewalk last night in the rain.
15.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A dog with her jaw dropped as if hearing something very scandalous
What did Conny just hear? 😲
15.11.2025 03:33 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A cloudy sky with a pink glow.
A cloudy sky with a pink glow.
A cloudy sky with a pink glow.
A cloudy sky with a pink glow.
I was actually able to get a few shots of last night’s aurora!
I drove up to Castaic (northern Los Angeles County) with the family to find a darker sky. Couldn’t see much but the camera did.
Wow! The clouds cleared enough to get some shots with the camera!!!
12.11.2025 05:37 — 👍 31 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All your aurora photos are beautiful! It’s cloud here so thanks for posting!
12.11.2025 03:38 — 👍 50 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I thought I was pretty good at youth sports photography. My 14 y/o daughter picks up my camera for the first time at a game this morning and just schools me.
11.11.2025 21:40 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Started / going
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4711 drive last week.
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