TheSpacewriterLooksUp

@spacewriter

I live on Earth, work in space. BLM. Wear your mask, wash your hands, stay home if possible, and protect yourself and others.

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  1. Nov 8

    Gravitational Waves from Zero to 90

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    Nov 6

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    We were treated to the strongest auroras of the entire mission, over north America and Canada. Amazing spikes higher than our orbit🤩, and we flew right above the centre of the ring, rapid waves and pulses all over.
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    Nov 6

    F9/Crew-2: Anton Shkaplerov (front right) is now in command aboard the International Space Station; at the end of a short change-of-commander ceremony, the 7-member crew shared a group hug amid preparations for Crew-2's undocking Sunday

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    Nov 6

    I still haven’t seen that sleepy joe guy that GQP Republicans always like to talk about, all I can see is a President Joe Biden getting shit done for the American people and delivering the results he promised. 🤔

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    Nov 6

    The Martian horizon. As seen from the lander in Elysium Planitia, today, Saturday November 6, 2021.

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    Nov 6

    ESA photographer Stephane Corvaja took this close-up, see more pics at 👉

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    Nov 6

    Big Bird has now gotten the COVID-19 vaccine

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  8. Nov 6

    Landry, Atty Gen of LA, about stay on vax by big biz: "Never before has the federal government tried in a such a forceful way to get between the choices of an American citizen and their doctor." But he & TX are OK w/govt getting between choices of women & their docs.

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    Oct 29

    See those thin, dark, squiggly lines in this photo? They're footprints. Made by the two Apollo 12 astronauts during the 7 hours, 45 minutes, 18 seconds they spent on the surface of the Moon, November 19–20, 1969. (Credit: NASA GSFC/ASU, taken by )

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  10. Oct 29

    Planets: A New Way to Define them

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    Oct 28

    This just out, and I expect it to be a landmark paper in planetary science--incredible job, led by the incredible from Have a look! And RETWEETS please!!

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    Oct 27

    If you hold a ball and line it up with the moon when it’s out during daylight, the ball will be in the same phase as the moon! That’s because the geometry of the moon-Earth-sun system is the same as the geometry of the ball-eye-sun system.

    A golf ball and the moon in the same (gibbous) phase.
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  13. Oct 22

    I planned a star party for tomorrow night and, of course, the forecast changed to “cloudy.” We shall see…

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  14. Oct 18

    William Shatner Went To Space and Took Us Along

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  15. Oct 15

    Water Rules on Europa

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  16. Oct 13

    Behind the Scenes of “EXOPLANETS – Discovering New Worlds”

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    Oct 10

    A volcano eruption from the International Space Station source:

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    Oct 8

    The Perseverance paper is very readable and I learned some stratigraphy. Plus they cite spouse and new LPL Research Professor Ginny Gulick, so a win all around.

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    Oct 8

    OK here we go. I am happy to announce the publication of my human spaceflight web pages at

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    Oct 6

    Manchin “I just don’t want our society to move to an entitlement society." Says the millionaire w a daughter who boosted Epi-Pen prices by 461% & her own salary by 671%.

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