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Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾
This week's #PlanetaryPet is playful Stella who is NOT going to give up her pink stuffed toy! Adorable and stubborn Stella lives and plays with PSI’s Senior Scientist Pamela Gay.
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PSI in the News:
PSI's Shawn Wright discussed his recent publication on shocked soil on the Geology Letter Substack. Watch/listen here: buff.ly/BSw7Zmo
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This morning, PSI's Amanda Hendrix, Roger Clark, Morgan Cable and Tom McCord snapped a picture at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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They've gathered with other mission science and operations folks for the annual Europa Clipper Project Science Group meeting, where they will plan for all aspects of the Europa encounters during the tour of the Jovian system.
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#JunoCam: This rendering of the Juno spacecraft flying over Jupiter and its Great Red Spot was created using actual mission data. Want to process your own image? buff.ly/puVFvXq
Data/image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SwRI/Kevin M. Gill
Juno Model: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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We love answering questions about our Solar System!
This week Astronomy Magazine called on PSI's William Hartmann to help answer "Why does 1 side of the Moon have a lot of craters, while the other side does not?" Click through to read his answer!
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"I am extremely excited to be working on the science team for the first landed Artemis mission... I anticipate spending much of the next year analyzing potential landing sites & taking a deeper dive into lunar highlands regolith structure."
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PSI's Kirby Runyon was featured on the HELLO FUTURE podcast! Catch it here: buff.ly/IqWsx8b
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Happy Friday! 🌌 🎨
This week's #SciArt features a Coronagraph from the Moon, by PSI cofounder William K. Hartmann. A coronagraph is a device that blocks out direct light from the Sun so the corona can be studied.
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However, coronagraphs can’t be used effectively on Earth due to scattered light in the atmosphere. But, the Moon lacks an atmosphere, so astronauts could create a handheld coronagraph for use on the surface.
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#ClarkVision: Milky Way Rises Over Mesa Arch, Canyonlands Nat'l Park
The Milky Way's center & the constellation Sagittarius are on the right side of the arch, & the Constellation Cygnus is above the left side of the arch, with the red North America Nebula. By PSI's Roger Clark.
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We never know where PSI scientists will be next. For David Grinspoon, the answer was London for SWSX where he talked with Dune's production designer building worlds at the junction of science and fiction. Learn more in this @THR article.
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#JunoCam: The many textures of Jupiter. Swipe through. This never gets old!
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📸: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Navaneeth Krishnan / Emma Wälimäki / Björn Jónsson / Tracy Prell
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Her research focuses on how the surfaces of rocky planets, asteroids & moons in our Solar System evolve, specifically focusing on several themes including resurfacing on rubble pile asteroids, Martian polar surface variability & explosive volcanism on the Moon & Mercury.
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Learn more about the award and how you can support this work inspired by Betty: buff.ly/1DSkFcW
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Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾
This week’s #PlanetaryPet is the award-winning 10-year-old Jax, a Belgian Malinois who cleared the field in ONE weekend to win all of these awards in Estes Park, CO. Jax lives with PSI Senior Scientist Robert Tokar.
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Tomorrow, the Moon's motion & our calendar align! We get a 2nd full Moon in May at 4:10am PDT & the Moon is farthest from Earth (looks smaller) at 10:33am PDT. Put together, this makes a *Blue Micromoon*.
Which is cool excuse to get you to think about the Moon. You're welcome.
ALT The Full Moon over Saguaro cactus. Credit: Lon&Queta https://www.flickr.com/photos/48096653@N00/4290592235/
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Stewart, a University of Edinburgh graduate student, presented a talk titled “Amino Acid-Clay Interactions on Mars-Relevant Minerals: Insights from Molecular Simulations.”
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The Pierazzo International Student Travel Award was begun by PSI in memory of Senior Scientist Betty Pierazzo to support and encourage graduate students to build international collaborations and relationships in planetary science.
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