Mercury. Venus. Earth. Mars. Bennu and our Moon | We've been known to study them all | Official account of Drs. Johnson and Jellinek research group at UBC.
Meet our research group leader, Dr. Catherine Johnson (@LocoCJPlanet), who began her journey working with Magellan mission data of the planet Venus. Since then she has participated in @NASA missions, including @MESSENGER2011(Mercury), @NASAInSight (Mars), and @OSIRISREx (Bennu)
EOAS faculty members Dr Catherine Johnson and Dr Dominique Weis and their teams are both involved in the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission to first map the asteroid and then in 2023 to analyze samples from the return mission. We can't wait to see what they reveal!
@PlanetLabCJMJ@pcigr
Come see some of the work from our current and past members at #LPSC2022 March 7th - 11th! We have Mars, Venus and Asteroid Bennu covered this year.
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Evidence for Volcanism Associated with the Fracture Annulus of Aramaiti Corona, Venus [#1245]
@meguh78
Blocks, wisps, lumps, do they / Reveal Venus is awake? / But when, now or then?
Session: Venus, So Hot Right Now, Tuesday afternoon.
hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc20…
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Topographic Roughness Profiles Across Impact Craters on Asteroid (101955) Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter [#1808]
Francis Rossmann
Session: Small Bodies poster session, Tuesday evening.
hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc20…
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External Magnetic Fields as Seen from InSight [#1242]
@AnnaPlanetMars (also chairing the session)
Session: Martian Geophysics and Tectonics, Thursday afternoon.
On Mars’ surface, I, / The first magnetometer, / Listen to the Sun.
hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc20…
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Research by @meguh78 and @lococjplanet is the latest addition to the Venus Science Nuggets!
Thanks to the folks at @unveilvenus (Venus Exploration Analysis Group) for helping to increase the visibility of research, especially for early career researchers.
lpi.usra.edu/vexag/resources…
I took a break from the #AGU21 poster session today to go running, and I saw the Mississipi river for the first time in my life 😍 Spoiler alert: it's big 😅
If anyone attending the @theAGU meeting is looking for a running mate hit me up! 🏃🏃
Happy Monday - it's already December!
This week's PSI Planetary Pet features a canine duo who live with Dr Catherine Johnson. Here is a great photo of patient Olana with puppy Benjamin!
#planetarypets#psiplanetarypets
I was skeptical about "writing retreats"...not anymore! What a fantastic time in 🇨🇭🏔️ with my favorite martians @AnnaPlanetMars & @agraugal! Lots of proposal writing with a bit of hiking, trailrunning and fondue! 😋 Forever grateful to @PlanetLabCJMJ for these friendships!🙏
Wow, take a look at this lidar dataset from the Canadian high Arctic, collected by current and former CJMJ group members! What do you think of this data presentation?
Beep beep! During solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the Sun (aka Mars is within 2 degrees of the Sun), it's hard to communicate with spacecraft and rovers, so they get a break! Now that it's over, they're woken up and put back to work!
Solar conjunction is over and I’m ready to get rolling again. Nothing like the feel of Mars under your wheels.
Latest images: go.nasa.gov/perseverance-raw…
🎥(Sol 200 drive): go.nasa.gov/3n8PiYD
Locked in a tug of war between the gravity of Jupiter and the pulls of its neighboring moons, Io’s distorted orbit causes it to flex as it orbits. The stretching causes friction and intense heat in Io’s interior, sparking massive eruptions across its surface. CREDIT: NASA/JPL/DLR
I was lucky to have a blast during my PhD! Not least thanks to the fantastic @PlanetLabCJMJ group and @UBCeoas grad students. I know a lot of people who enjoyed it and a lot of people who struggled, #WorkLifeBalance and supportive supervisor is key. Missing this gang!
Sky watching is fun no matter where you are. I took this short time lapse movie to watch for clouds, and caught something else: look closely and you’ll see Deimos, one of two moons of Mars.
More on this tiny moon: mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars…
Newsmaker alert! Check out this video showcasing a recent paper written by @lococjplanet and @meguh78 about volcanism on Venus, adding hints that it's more active than we previously thought. How do we do this using 30 year old data collected from space?
youtube.com/watch?v=Im27n1HO…
Great research is fueled by great collaborations! More than a few papers, group talks, photo slideshows and conference presentations came out of this trip with @drcrater@agraugal@smchartrand et al.