Dr. Lori Fenton’s primary research interests include aeolian geomorphology, recent and ongoing climate changes, and the mobility of wind-blown sand and dust.
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Data scientist Dr. Joe Twicken’s background is in signal processing. During his career, Dr. Twicken developed and operated science processing pipelines supporting several planetary missions: Magellan, Galileo, Mars Global Surveyor, and Mars Express.
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Very sad to hear of the passing of Ed Stone, who has died at the age of 88.
Best known perhaps as the project scientist from 1972 to 2022 for the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune, Ed played a key role in the history of space science, including 10 years leading NASA JPL.
I met him at a space particle & fundamental physics conference at CERN in 2012, where I took these pictures. Originals: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjCM5rJJ
Ad astra, Ed ✨
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Update:
The powerful X9 flare that erupted on the Sun at 12:18UTC yesterday has resulted in a big coronal mass ejection (CME) coming our way 🌞💥💨🌍
Combined with another CME, predictions are for a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm arriving in the October 4-6 window, with good chances of aurorae – fingers crossed for good weather 🤞
Here's the SOHO/SDO view of the flare & CME over the past day or so 📽️
Credit: ESA, NASA, JHelioviewer
Further info: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov
Coming up in 100 minutes at 21:48CET: the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission is making flyby at Venus, just 379km above the cloud tops.
Although it has made several Venus flybys before, this one's special: it's the first of a sequence designed to lift the spacecraft out of the ecliptic plane.
Why? Because Solar Orbiter is aiming to take the first clear images of the north & south poles of the Sun.
Will there be a polar hexagon like on Saturn? Stay tuned 🌞
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Solar_Orbiter_ready_for_close_encounter_with_Venus