Kevin M. Gill

A desolate terrain with craters and distant buttes. Thin clouds are visible in the sky.

Some thin afternoon clouds above the Mars Perseverance Rover tosol on Sol 1584.

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Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4618 drive this weekend. We are using this for planning rover operations for sols 4620 & 4621 this morning.

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Sorta does. I’ll check for any historical crashes in this area when I have a chance. Or it’s an old boiler?

An old rusty something mostly buried in the sand

Lost Iron

If the Sox get any hotter they risk a Type Ia supernova…

A while and brown layered rock

A rhyolite(?) with green and maroon sides

A reddish rock with little inclusions (xenoliths?)

A grayish sodalite(?) in shade

Went down there just to see what kind of rocks would be there while my daughter was practicing soccer. Didn’t take anything (didn’t expect to), but the local grocery stores might be interested to know where all their carts are…

Yeah, I had a lot of fun with that when my kids where younger. I’m just glad no one recorded me when I was doing voices for each character

Oh, and here’s “Shopping Cart in a Cactus”

Funny you should say that, he did!

A bunny seen through some brush

I asked this bunny if he put all those carts in the wash. He claims that he did not. I’m not sure if I believe him…

And this one “A Whole Bunch of Shopping Carts in the Wash”

A long black shopping cart in a dry seasonal riverbed.

I call this one “Shopping Cart in the Wash”

Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4616 drive.

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Nah, you’re all right. My clock says its only 10am 😉

Does almost look like a planet, doesn’t it?

Hahaha!

A white bucket containing dried rock tumbler slurry, a combination of grit and rock dust. The mass has swirls and desiccation cracks. This is good (I left it out in the Sun) as I can just scrap it into the trash.

Tumbler Slurry

A camera lens surrounded by all sorts of technology. All is covered in a layer of martian dust. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

And a MastCam checkout of the MAHLI camera lens. Gives you a good idea as to how dusty things get when they spend a decade on a planet covered in dust…

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Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4614 drive this week.

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Jupiter rotation movie (Voyager 2) A computer generated rotation movie of Jupiter. It is rendered using a new high resolution global map of Jupiter I recently finished. The map is created from 135…

A rotation movie of Jupiter created using a global map of Jupiter I recently finished. The map is created from 135 Voyager 2 images from June 28, 1979. Two rotations are shown. In rotation 1, approx true color/contrast are used. Rotation 2 has exaggerated colors/contrast.

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A low profile classic car covered in gold metal.

A gold DeLorean. I might have to rethink my policy of not stealing cars…

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A distant desert landscape of buttes, sand dunes, and rocky hillsides. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

Ever think you’d get to just stare off into the distance….On Mars? This vista is part of a larger mosaic being taken by the Mars Perseverance Rover of the landscape outside Jezero Crater. Lots of dunes, buttes, and rocky hillsides. A few smaller craters dot the landscape.

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I still think its funny that I call out these things whenever I see them. It’s like “Hey look! A thing actually happened on Mars!”

A large but faint dust devil vortex in the distance. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Dust devil off in the distance, spotted on Sol 1580 by the Mars Perseverance Rover.

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A lumpy crescent of a moon with deep craters and pits. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

A “crescent” view of Hyperion, the lumpy moon of Saturn. Processed using imagery taken by Cassini in August 2011.

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I spend the weekend watching my daughter kick stuff, does that count? (Her team won the tournament!)

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A rock with a green side

A closeup of the green mineral. Kinda crusty?

A rock with green minerals

Closeup of one of the mineral bits

Two random rocks that caught my eye just now…

A lot of stars and dust. NASA / ESA / CSA / Dr. Erin Smith (PI) / Kevin M. Gill

JWST image pointed neat the galactic center. Taken in near and mid infrared light as part of camera calibration and checkout.

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