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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 54m

❓ What hobbies do you enjoy?
🎙️I try to get outdoors when I can, especially with my family. Working on the tree house or other outdoor play structures like slides and ziplines. I enjoy hiking and skiing. I also enjoy pottery when I can find time.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 22h

Tune into CosmoQuest After Hours tomorrow at 11am MST/2pm EDT to hear PSI's Jenny Larson, a researcher and cosplayer, talk about using her creativity to deliver real science to science fiction/fantasy audiences: buff.ly/stcZani

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 1d

#JunoCam: A family portrait of three of the Galilean moons shown appox. to scale: Ganymede, Europa and Io. 🧪 🔭

Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit buff.ly/dCAW6H0

📸: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 2d

Read about how PSI helped find possible evidence for past life on Mars: buff.ly/r25b3k2 🧪 🔭

Text over image of the surface of Mars featuring spotted rocks: The discovery of reduced iron phosphates and sulfides associated with organic carbon in sedimentary rocks on Mars suggests complex geochemical reactions, which have implications for our understanding of abiotic, and potentially prebiotic or biotic, chemical processes on ancient Mars. These findings also mark the first discovery of organic-rich mudstones outside of Gale crater, which indicates that the availability of organics may have been widespread across the planet billions of years ago, and this is important for our understanding of the extent and diversity of Martian surface processes and how this relates to habitability and potential life detection.” Ashly Murphy, postdoctoral research scientist.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 2d

PSI in the News: The exoplanet revolution at 30: 1st alien world was found around a sun-like star three decades ago

Read the Space.com story featuring PSI Director Amanda Hendrix: buff.ly/D31IMZR

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 3d

On the right is PSI Senior Scientist Pamela Gay’s guest badge for MagicCon: Atlanta, where she spent the weekend talking planetary science, Magic the Gathering & inclusion. For the conference, she designed a Curiosity rover playing card.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 3d

PSI Senior Scientist Kirby Runyon and PSI Director Amanda Hendrix are just two of several PSI scientists in Washington, D.C. today for a day of action to #SaveNASAScience

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 3d

In the first picture, Nancy points at Scorpius and points out the tail, the "rabbit tracks." The man is trying to take a picture of the Moon with his smartphone.

The second picture is the Moon taken with a smartphone and an 8-inch telescope.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 3d

PSI's Larry Lebofsky celebrated International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday with his neighbors!

For an hour and a half, 16 people came by to view both the Moon and Saturn (and its moon Titan in the third picture). His wife Nancy pointed out constellations and shared their stories.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 4d

You can also read about how Uranus's moon, Ariel, likely harbored a deep ocean and meet the scientist behind the research.

The Briefing also features the #SciArt image below: A full moonrise over a Santorini church by PSI's Roger Clark. Read & subscribe: buff.ly/1kIv8K4

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 4d

This week's edition of our newsletter features MOONS in honor of tonight's full moon! 🌕

Tonight's moon is also a supermoon, meaning it's as close as it can get to Earth in its orbit, making it appear slightly larger than usual. The full moon peaks at 8:47pm Az time (11:47 EST).

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 5d

This image, taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, features the phases of the Moon's far side, which can never been seen from Earth. We can't see the Moon's far side because it's tidally locked, meaning the Moon orbits the Earth once for every rotation.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 5d

Happy International Observe the Moon Night! ✨🌖✨ Make sure to get out tonight & look up! buff.ly/TbXSoE5

📸: NASA SVS

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 6d

100 Hours of Astronomy kicks off TOMORROW! PSI's Pamela Gay will participate in the global celebration. It invites people to connect with the night sky and the science that helps us understand it. She goes live @ 7am MST to talk about Pluto and answer Qs: buff.ly/FKRAIf7

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100 Hours of Astronomy is a yearly global celebration organised by the Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) that invites people of all ages and backgrounds to come together and connect with the night…

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 7d

Happy Friday! 🪐 🐾

This week’s #PlanetaryPet is always-curious Haimar Zubeldia, named after the famous Spanish cyclist. As PSI’s Alan Fischer notes, “Haimar and his pal Dracula (in background) don’t seem to understand that good kitties do not belong on the table.”

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 8d

The stars in the Milky Way are dominantly yellow, orange and red. Less than 1% are blue. Interstellar dust is reddish-brown. Also featured is pink-red hydrogen emission nebulae & a rare blue nebula from scattered starlight.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 8d

#ClarkVision: ✨ The galaxy rises over Bryce Canyon National Park one spring morning in 2020

📸: Roger Clark

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 8d

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 9d

PSI in the News:

NASA canceled a moon rover mission last year. Suddenly, it's back. Read the Mashable story here:

NASA canceled a moon rover mission last year. Suddenly, it's back.

NASA canceled the VIPER rover mission to the moon last year, citing cost overruns. But the space agency has announced a plan to revive it.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 10d

#JunoCam: Jupiter in fall colors. 🍂 🎃

Interested in processing your own JunoCam images? Visit buff.ly/dCAW6H0

📸: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Dawson20

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 11d

“In order to create those fractures (seen on Ariel's surface), you have to have either a really thin ice on a really big ocean, or a higher eccentricity and a smaller ocean. But either way, we need an ocean to be able to create the fractures that we are seeing on Ariel’s surface.”🧪🔭

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Uranus' moon Ariel in the background. Foreground text: Uranian moon likely harbored a deep ocean. To explain Ariel's jagged and scarred surface, a new research suggests that it once contained a subsurface ocean about 100 miles (170 km deep). For perspective, the Pacific Ocean averages 2.5 miles (4km) deep.

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 11d

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 11d

"I was always interested in science and as a small kid who was in and out of hospitals all the time, I thought I’d do something in medicine. But when I was about nine years old my older brother showed me Saturn through his telescope and in that moment I was utterly won over to planetary science."

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 14d

#SciArt: PSI's Cathy Weitz painted this watercolor image of the Hubble Space Telescope with one of it's own photos painted behind it.👩‍🔬🎨

Did you know? Hubble orbits the Earth in just 95 mins!

Learn more about the telescope that forever changed our view of the cosmos: buff.ly/NJqgjH8

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 14d

Advocacy in action! PSI Director Amanda Hendrix met with Senator Mark Kelly in D.C. today to talk about the importance of funding science, science education, not canceling missions and avoiding a shutdown.

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