Justin Filiberto

Bright colored trees with different colored crystals growing on them.

Plastic case with 5 soaps shaped as gemstones. Blue, green, red, blue, and purple - clockwise from the far left.

Dinosaur display with a small volcano in the center and a blue pond on the bottom right. The ground is currently dirt with plants expected to grow in.

Took the day off work to spend with my daughter and ended up doing science kits all day. Crystal trees, gemstone soaps, and a dinosaur display (plants will grow in soon)

This pillow princess turns 9 today. Happy birthday, Roxy 😀

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NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise - NASA Science New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin.

Venus is awesome. New feature story about our recent paper:

science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

A small black and tan dog lays on a pile of pillows with her paws crossed.

A proper lady crosses her paws

I stopped submitting there a few years ago as I had a series of papers that the ae and reviewers all liked but the editor rejected it with a similar reason to your experience. All papers got published in other similarly ranked journals. Go find a different journal 😀

Yup. Julia has a PhD student finishing up on that. He presented at lpsc in 2024 and we have a paper almost ready to submit.

Venus is awesome and weird. We did not expect this when we started modeling. It was an supposed to be a simple intern project to calculate metamorphic mineralogy. But the surface of Venus is so hot and high pressure that under any reasonable geothermal gradient, weird things happen quickly at depth.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out today showing that the crustal thickness of Venus is likely constrained by metamorphism. Too thick and the crust either remelts or delaminates. 30 to 40 km works best with the models. 🧪⚒️🌋⛏️🛰🚀

Lead Astromaterial Curation Engineer Salvador Martinez III smiles at the camera wearing a plaid shirt inside the OSIRIS REx Lab. Credit: NASA/James Blair; NASA/Thalia Patrinos

Sep 24, 2024: Salvador Martinez III shares his inspiring journey from humble beginnings to leading the OSIRIS-REx mission at NASA.

www.nasa.gov/image-article/lead-astromaterial-curation-engineer-salvador-martinez-iii/

I loved teaching phase diagrams. They are sooooo much fun 😁

Yes we do state that...almost in those words :-)

Submitted. It's been a while since I've done that. But I submitted a first author paper today. It's an invited review that's about a year delayed. But it feels great to have it submitted. 15 coauthors, 14 figures, and about 50 pages single spaced. All about whether Venus has active volcanoes. 🌋 ⛏️⚒️🧪

Here are my two goofballs. Hugs to you and thoughts with Hudson.

Lazy Sunday

A cropped portion of the MastCam panorama showing Mt. Stimson on Mars. Credit: NASA; JPL; MSSS; Justin Cowart; Aster Cowart

Aster Cowart (@terrasabaea.bsky.social) on Flickr (May 11, 2015)

A detailed view of Mt. Stimson from the Sol 962 MastCam panorama.

flic.kr/p/sHvA3T

Starliner astronauts mark 239th day in orbit with successful space station spacewalk Starliner co-pilot Sunita Williams is now the world's most experienced female spacewalker, moving up to number four overall.

One of the scientists in my group had a payload on this eva to swab the outside of iss for microorganisms.

www.cbsnews.com/news/starlin...

Gift NYT article from @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social featuring some info about 2024 YR4, with quotes from some of your favorite planetary defenders, and also me.

#PlanetaryScience 🔭🧪

Warning issued: 1.3% chance of a 40- 90 meter asteroid impact on December 22, 2032: iawn.net/documents/NO...

We made a texas snow person...the dogs were not amused by the snow

Poor girl is going to the vet today to get her teeth cleaned.

Houston weather: Hobby, Bush airports to close Tuesday Houston Hobby Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport will be closed on Tuesday as snow and ice is expected to fall in the area.

Most schools are closed Tuesday and weds and both airports will be closed at least for Tuesday! Crazy. Stay safe everyone.

www.fox26houston.com/weather/hous...

Reposting. Please donate to help our jpl colleagues if you can afford to help.

Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.

Thinking of all my friends and colleagues at jpl today. Over 150 have lost their homes and it's not over. If you can afford to help, jpl is collecting money to help colleagues in need

caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.

Thinking of all my friends and colleagues at jpl today. Over 150 have lost their homes and it's not over. If you can afford to help, jpl is collecting money to help colleagues in need

caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

Someone was cold on his walk and much happier being carried home

Gorgeous day before the cold front hits. So out playing pokemon with my kid.

I made a new figure today for a paper I've been working on. It's the most productive science I've done in ages. I'm excited to finally get this paper submitted...hopefully this month. It's a massive review paper that I had originally said would be submitted Dec 2023...

He is tired and cold....