Closeup MAHLI inspection of mineral-filled rock fractures. Area pre-cleared of dust with the DRT brush. Taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on Sol 4559. flic.kr/p/2r8V21b

On the super random things you learn at LPSC...apparently some of my Mars research is an SAT prep question 🤓😆

Wonderful LPSC this year + NASA/ASU scope workshop on communicating planetary science! Left with so many ideas and new friends/colleagues! It was a true honor to attend, along with so many amazing women from my lab group who inspire me to try to do my best work every day 💛

Spent a beautiful week up at the Basque Lakes, where I've had the privilege to study some really cool hypersaline lakes for the past several years. Always a joy to get up here, with some awesome people. #saltygoodness #astrobiology

Today, sixty days after being laid off by JPL, my severance pay and insurance coverage expire. At JPL, I did engineering ops for the Curiosity Rover 🚀. Before that, I studied entrepreneurship and management at Stanford. Please reskeet this so I can make new connections and find new opportunities 🤠

Folks, a huge number of people at JPL have been affected by the LA wildfires, with many losing their homes. If you can, consider contributing to a fund that's been set up to help them: (Link looks sketch but site is legit) caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

The fires in LA are having a big impact on the #NASA community. I'm starting to hear that several colleagues at #JPL have lost their homes. I'm so sorry for what you are going through and I hope that you and your families (including pets) are able to stay safe. 🔭🪐🧪 www.space.com/space-explor...

I upgraded my #LPSCHaiku to an LPSC tanka this year. Abstract 2663: In ancient rock slide: // Sulfur, in element form // encases rubble // and spreading atoms yonder, // clothes rocks in myriad forms.

How can we learn more about space without having to go there? Georgia Tech researchers like @methanojen.bsky.social, @spacelover20.bsky.social, and @francypants.bsky.social use extreme Earth environments as analogs for Mars, Jupiter's moon, and more. 🪐 b.gatech.edu/3VxkjY4

Welcome to the "Altadena Quad" Curiosity! Over the weekend, the Curiosity team snapped the view below & started a new theme for informal target names that will recognize the geology and rich human history around Altadena, a town in JPL's backyard. Wohoo! science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-43...

New article on Georgia Tech planetary science analogue research is up!! Featuring the range of GT labs doing research in extreme earth environments (including my own field site in Canada!) to study other planets/moons! Check it out :) research.gatech.edu/feature/very...

I got a chance to review one of all-time my favorite artists over at @swimintosound.bsky.social this week :) swimintothesound.com/blog/2024/11...

Rocks imaged by the Mars Perseverance Rover on Sol 1336. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

Polygonal features on a rock as seen by the Mars Curiosity Rover this week on Sol 4368.

Atlanta Skyline! (Yes I know the buildings are all out of order lol)

This new taxon is macroscopic, motile, and bilaterally symmetrical, yet it consistently demonstrates an asymmetric “question mark” shape in all specimens, demonstrating the oldest example of metazoan-grade chirality!