The Europa Clipper team is in Boulder! lasp.colorado.edu/2026/06/08/c...

Hey #AbSciCon #AbSciCon2026! Look for me or @planetcynthia.bsky.social at the conference this week for a variety of rainbow swoosh pin styles, for your wearing pleasure.

“Dude. No. Way.” #Earthset #Artemis

2026 space odyssey

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

WTF is this and why didn't they want all the top talent they've been firing from NASA centers for the last couple of years www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Wow.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Mining of the Galileo infrared data suggests ammonia compounds at Europa! Nitrogen is a critical element for life as we know it. This provides additional fodder for the Europa Clipper mission, making the first of 49 Europa flybys on March 7, 2031! science.nasa.gov/blogs/scienc...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

BREAKING: ICE agents in Minneapolis violently detained and arrested a U.S. citizen for one reason only: he refused to prove his citizenship. No crime. No warrant. No probable cause.

Dear sweet Jesus, these photos from after they drag her away are even worse. (h/t @mprnews.org, doing the Lord's work). www.instagram.com/reel/DTdrPvZ...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Just like the Nazi Gestapo, they went door to door looking for Jews! #arrestice #minnesota

Planetary friends! Don't want to go to Houston in March, or support an institute that's bending the knee? Then join us for the very first Planetary Science Community Workshop in Louisville, KY on April 14–16, 2026. It's our community. Fight for it! Details at the link: planetaryworkshop.org

Nothing so perfectly proves the concept of whiteness as a social construct than the reality that white people who stand up for minorities forfeit some of the protections that whiteness afforded them.

Happy "Not Submitting an LPSC Abstract Today" to those who celebrate.

A career in a file drawer, succinct and color-coded. An office move, 21st Century reality and Mabel’s urging combined to convince me to retain just several hardcopies of each publication (with placeholders for many not yet printed). An adjacent empty drawer awaits Europa Clipper’s scientific bounty.

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026. This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces. (1/2)

Happy Holidays from Europa Clipper!

OUR CLIPPER PRESS RELEASE FOR COMET 3I/ATLAS IS OUT 🥹 i can’t even begin to describe what it feels like to be looking at new and exciting data with europa clipper. it’s a dream come true 😭 www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...

Europa Clipper has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with its ultraviolet spectrograph instrument! News here: www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...

Chris Glein delivers an informative and inspiring Sagan Lecture on ocean worlds as potential abodes of life at #agu25.

The ESA Juice mission observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Might the surface of Europa hint at subsurface brines? www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-stu...

Goodnight Moon. #dtla #moonset

it’s SO exciting to see images from a spacecraft you work on, even if they’re just test images 🥹 this is a starfield image from europa clipper, including the planet uranus! it was taken to test clipper’s star-tracking cameras!!

WOW! An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action. 🧪🔭 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Moonrise.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Amazing!

A dark day is coming.

Flyby success! ESA's Juice spacecraft passed Venus at 07:28 CEST on 31 August. This photo shows our deep-space antenna in Spain in communication with Juice during the flyby. Juice’s current location, Venus, and its destination, Jupiter, are both visible in the sky ❤️

“They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

SPHEREx Discovers Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in Interstellar Object 3I-ATLAS spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla... #SPHEREx #3IATLAS 🧪🔭

Maryame El Moutamid and colleagues have discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The JWST observations show a 10km moon orbiting 56,000km from Uranus's center. This moon adds to the complex puzzle that is the Uranian ring and moon system. #planetsci 🧪 science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management. medium.com/@steve.desch...

The REASON Ice Penetrating Radar produced good test data when we flew by Mars! All looking good for seeing inside #Europa in a few years. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

Maaaaarrrrssss! #EuropaClipper www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Fear! Panic! Europa Clipper Captures Mars, Phobos, and Deimos photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... #EuropaClipper

Under the proposed White House budget, the NASA Space Grant program would be eliminated. I was a NASA Space Grant recipient during my Masters—it funded my research on water on Mars. I then went on to work in science & mission ops on multiple NASA Mars missions immediately after graduation. (1/2)

Happy pride month! I worked with some LA-based scientists and engineers, and we have a kickstarter for space pride t-shirts! Consider backing! 🛰️🏳️‍⚧️🚀🏳️‍🌈🪐 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spa...

Neat! NASA just released a thermal image of Mars taken by the Jupiter-bound Europa Clipper spacecraft. Their story is here; I'll provide some context in following posts. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e...

it's tough out there for federal workers right now. People working on space missions have always been "paid" partly in the satisfaction and thrill of exploring where no one has been before, followed by the excitement of sharing those discoveries with the public. When morale drops, that pay drops.

#EuropaClipper NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Mars in Infrared Headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur... #Mars 🧪🔭

Europa Clipper captures Mars in the thermal infrared! "On its recent swing by Mars, NASA’s Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The data will help mission scientists calibrate the spacecraft’s thermal imaging instrument." www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e...

From Io to Europa to Earth’s Moon: a fascinating tale of tidal heating! www.quantamagazine.org/whats-going-...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

And to celebrate the occasion, AI brings us the hit song: 5 Years to JOI ! suno.com/song/cec6a57...