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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

2 years

OH MY Our extraterrestrial helicopter spotted the parachute and back-shell that guided the @NASAPersevere rover to the surface of Mars over a year ago. And what a sight🤩 Space debris crash-landed on another world snapped by an aerial drone. What a timeline we live in.

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So striking to see rover tracks that begin from nothing. @NASAPersevere is on the move!

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3 years

Just got word that I'll be certified to operate the NASA Perseverance rover by the landing date. Oh boi. Best Christmas present ever 😍 Why aren't there any laser emojis?

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3 years

Success! The Ingenuity helicopter has touched down & @NASAPersevere has cleared a safe distance to expose the solar panels. We are in uncharted territory in the history of aviation, and I'm giddy :D Speechless! Let's just gaze at this beautiful portrait. *re-coloured by hand

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The first 360 panorama from Mastcam-Z on @NASAPersevere has been released and it is stunning! These zoomable cameras captured the distant rim of Jezero Crater in exquisite detail. Makes me want to run for the hills :D

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3 years

Still can't take my eyes off these root-less tracks! A spectacular reminder that @NASA flawlessly dropped a 2,260 lb vehicle from the sky onto the surface of Mars.

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Holy Moly The Saturn V is enormous. Walking the length of it really makes you appreciate how stupendously massive it is. It's amazing it ever flew.

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2 years

Holy Moly. The rocks on Mars will never cease to amaze me. Deposited and shaped by water more than 3 billion years ago when Mars was a balmy planet with rivers and lakes, these sediments might hold the fossils of primitive life. Good thing @NASAPersevere is collecting samples.

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2 years

Pausing my Mars obsession to revel in this *stunning* video of the Parker Solar Probe plunging through the Sun's upper atmosphere😍 The probe is still more than 10 million km from the Sun. Can you imagine how amazing these videos will be as the probe flies closer? I cannot wait.

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2 years

Are we there yet? @NasaPersevere has made a U-turn and is back-tracking towards the landing site. But why? Why have we driven 3 kilometers just to turn our multi-million-dollar rover around and do it again? (1/n)

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2 years

Our Christmas tradition is a savory pastry puff. This year my mom said, "why don't you decorate it with that space launchey thing you watched?" So here's our Ariane 5 shooting for pastry stars. Good luck #JWST

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3 years

Named some rocks on Mars today 👊 It was a good day

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1 year

STOP AND STARE📢 You're looking at a sealed sample of Martian rock selected by scientists. The @NASAPersevere rover just deposited this sample on the ground so that it may be retrieved BY HELICOPTERS and returned to Earth within the next decade. We're watching history be made.

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3 years

Just received on earth: the interior of @NASAPersevere 's next sample! The rover abraded away a few millimeters of rock to reveal the textures hidden beneath. Quite a different look than exposed on the surface, which is the value of the abrasion tool! This is Mars on the inside.

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1 year

Sometimes I get overwhelmed staring at a spreadsheet with over 100 000 rows of numbers. But then I remember that these numbers are sitting in front of me because an SUV-sized robot on Mars shot a laser, vaporized a bit of rock, and converted the result into numbers I can read.

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3 years

This Mastcam-Z image gets me every time. I can't not see a penguin🐧

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2 years

Goodness gracious, look how close @NASAPersevere is to the delta 😮

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2 years

I like working from my parents' home because it means I get to help operate @NASAPersevere from a cabin in the woods, and that just feels surreal.

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8 months

Whoa. 307 pages later, my thesis is submitted. Evaluation (+stress) will come in the next few weeks, but for now, I can say: WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO

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3 years

Meet the exquisitely layered Kodiak mound. Thought to be the remains of the delta that formed underwater where an ancient river flowed into the lake in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Subjectively re-coloured to look like an outcrop at golden hour📸This remains my fave @NASAPersevere pic.

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3 years

I love this shot from @NASAPersevere because it documents such an incredible scientific feat. From ~395 million km away, the mission team reached out to Mars, drilled an exquisitely symmetrical hole, extracted a souvenir, and then shot lasers into the drill cuttings. 10/10. A+.

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2 years

As always, credit goes to the NASA team: NASA/JPL-Caltech Small brightness/contrast edits by me

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@ErinSpaceCase

6 months

✈️ The journey has begun! Officially, heading to Antarctica with the ANSMET team! First, a quick training stop in New Zealand, then onto the ice next week. I still can't believe this is real🤩 Follow our journey and discoveries on the ANSMET blog:

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2 years

No one tells you that organic chemistry is 90% doing dishes

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3 years

I quickly merged some images sent back from @NASAPersevere to show just how stunning our most recent drill hole looks! Each one of those angular specks could be a transported grain or a crystallized mineral that will teach us about what kind of environment shaped this rock.

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2 years

My mom sends me pictures of rocks she finds while exploring. Yesterday's shot featured a neat semi-sphere portruding from an ancient seabed outcrop. It looks fake, but it's just a spectacular example of differential weathering revealing a concretion! Nice find, ma!

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1 year

I TOUCHED THE MOON

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3 years

Oooh, @NASAPersevere is peeping some nifty textures 👀 Is it a python? Is it a gopher burrow? Probably just boring ol' sand. But a gal can dream.

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3 years

If you zoom in you can see 10 little holes all lined up in a row. These are the craters of the tiny explosions caused by our SuperCam laser💥 And oh my gosh I helped target the laser on this rock 😍 Somebody pinch me

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

@NASAPersevere

3 years

While the helicopter is getting ready, I can’t help checking out nearby rocks. This odd one has my science team trading lots of hypotheses. It’s about 6 inches (15 cm) long. If you look closely, you might spot the row of laser marks where I zapped it to learn more.

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6 months

For the briefest moment I was the newest (science) doctor in the world. Thesis is officially defended 🎉🎉🎉

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9 months

I have exciting news

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2 years

The bacon is beckoning. @NASAPersevere is *so close* to a pale patch of rocks visible all the way from orbit that we've nicknamed the Bacon Strip (I love NASA naming). We think this "strip" is a layer of mud that settled out on the lake bottom, now turned to rock.

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3 years

Reaching out, touching me, touching you... :) @NASAPersevere has been reaching out to the surface of Mars with its robotic arm, bringing us ever closer to collecting samples to eventually fly back to Earth. And I can't help but hum Sweet Caroline through these historic moments.

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2 years

Don't you just want to run your fingers through the sand on this little Martian dune? I am convinced that all future Mars rover should carry small rakes to make zen gardens between science activities. For the health and well-being of the rover.

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@ErinSpaceCase

3 years

Today's the day 😍 My first official shadow shift as a SuperCam Uplink Lead for @NASAPersevere starts in a few short minutes. It feels like the first day of school. I'm so ready to soak up alllll the knowledge.

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@ErinSpaceCase

2 years

So we need to retrace our steps and drive around Séítah (yellow dashed line) towards Three Forks. Here, we will look for a good spot to climb up onto the delta and start exploring the monolithic feature that brought us to Jezero crater in the first place. Let's go!

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2 years

In the middle of my operations shift with @NASAPersevere , my mom delivered a piece of fresh-baked apple crisp to my desk. I think I just peaked in life.

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2 years

Another peek at how the winds are shifting the sands on Mars. Just 4 days between these images from @NASAPersevere 's Front HazCam: sol 311 --> 315

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7 months

Now that the training is complete and flights are getting booked, I can finally announce that I will be a part of the legendary ANSMET team this year! We will head to Antarctica to camp on the blue icefields for 6 weeks and collect meteorites to support planetary research!

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3 years

Science results are for everyone! This is truly spectacular. Professional photographer Andrew Bodrov has used raw data from @NASAPersevere to create an immersive 360-degree experience of the landing location. It's incredible!

Mars Panorama - Perseverance rover: Martian solar day 0003

360° panorama photo from Out of this World by Andrew Bodrov. NASA's Mars Exploration Program (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS) <...

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3 years

I regularly email the authors of academic papers and ask clarifying questions or ask for the raw data. ~80% of the time I get a very excited response and an author who is thrilled to help me work through their results. It is so wonderful. This is the sci community we all need.

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3 months

I've finally returned from an incredible 2 months in Antarctica, collecting meteorites with the legendary #ANSMET team! ☄️ We collected a whopping 207 samples for science! Beyond grateful for the experience ❤️ & can't wait to see the results of the meteorite classifications.

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3 years

I will never not be thrilled by the sight of the tiny impact craters formed by the LIBS laser on @NASAPersevere . These shots targeted loose regolith and will likely be wiped off the surface of Mars by wind soon.

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1 year

Aww. Look at our tiny helicopter all alone in the sand. And it's been getting down to about -80°C (-112°F) over there. Poor little fella is cold and has no friends. Let's give him a wave 👋

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3 years

#CountdownToMars 19 days 🚀 Cool mission fact: Percy will use Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to quickly analyze the chemistry of rocks & soils. Back on earth, LIBS is used across a variety of industries! Including in medicine to help identify cancer ✔️ Pew pew pew

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1 year

My dentist was asking me about Mars Sample Return while cleaning my teeth. Dreadful. I simply cannot communicate all the cool parts about this multinational, multi billion dollar project via grunts around dental instruments.

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3 years

Ingenuity had an ambitious flight plan today - the longest and fastest so far! The data should be sent back to the Helicopter Team in just under 2 hours 🤞🤞🤞

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@ErinSpaceCase

3 years

I will have to stay up past my bedtime tonight to help plan operations for @NASAPersevere and my inner child is simply thrilled. Shooting science lasers on another planet is my late night activity of choice.

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3 years

The flight gif we saw earlier is stunning. But it's just a wee taste!! The full resolution Mastcam-Z video of the flight isn't downlinked just yet, but gosh, it'll be good 😍

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3 years

The official pilot’s logbook for the Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter is awfully handsome. The logbook is used to keep a record of Ingenuity's flights, including the accumulated flight time and the number and locations of takeoffs and landings. New entry coming later today... !!

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10 months

Isn't this just awesome?! You're looking at the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another world, reaching out with its roboty arm and sampling the surface so that we can better understand our planetary neighbor. Best geologist ever ❤️ And what a vista in the background 😍

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2 years

Mars has seen something truly shocking

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2 years

Sometimes I have to just pause and appreciate how incredibly cool the @NASAPersevere mission is. We have an artificial intelligence on another planet following remote commands to drill into rocks and extract the pieces for later analysis. Like, whoa.

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3 years

How cool is that?! The next #MarsHelicopter flight will cover about the same distance that the Spirit rover covered in its *entire* mission. But Ingenuity will do it in mere minutes! Space exploration never looked so good.

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3 years

@We_Martians And just 10 meters short of Spirit's entire prime mission/90 sols traverse distance. (We technically win if you count the up and down we do haha)

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2 years

Our goal is to reach the Delta. On Earth, deltas are awesome places to go fossil hunting. When a river meets a lake, the water slows down and all the sediment that has been carried along by the raging river is quite suddenly dumped out into the lake, forming a delta. (2/n)

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2 years

To prepare for the *very first* sample of Martian regolith (loose rocky material), the Science Team is commanding @NASAPersevere to snap a series of high-resolution photos from various distances. This will help us understand the material properties and pick a good sampling site.

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2 years

Whoa. Earlier this week @NASAPersevere reached out her arm and drilled a hole into Mars, extracting a rock core that may one day make the multi-million km journey back to Earth. AND THEN, we aimed a laser into the hole to see what Mars is made of on the inside. Just whoa.

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2 years

I spent the past week on Europe's largest glacier collecting samples for my PhD. It took 2 full days of driving to reach a special spot where a dormant volcano is melting the glacier from below and forming some *very cool* lakes and ponds. This was my first sight of the area😍

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2 years

Planning activities for @NASAPersevere is a bit different this week. We recently discovered "foreign object debris" on the coring bit -- an unidentified hairline object. We're taking things slow until we can ensure the sampling system is safe. Mars likes to keep us on our toes.

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2 years

I'll be giving a talk soon about Perseverance's first year highlights ☺️ What was your favourite moment? Mine was undoubtedly our first rock sample. The first geologic sample from Mars slated for return back to Earth. The first step in an Apollo 11 for planets 🤯. Just awesome.

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10 months

WOW! What a spectacular example of @NASAPersevere 's Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (GDRT), which uses short puffs of nitrogen gas to blow dust away and reveal the fresh rock surface underneath. Zoom in for an AWESOME glimpse of some fresh, shiny rock grains ON MARS!!

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6 months

The countdown is on!!! 🧪 We're all negative for covid, 🧤 kitted out with Antarctic gear, ☑️ and done orientation training! The only thing left to do is pack (and repack, and probably repack again) our bags and catch a flight to The Ice bright and early tomorrow!

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3 years

My first operations shift was a success! The @NASAPersevere rover is still going through some health check routines so it was not an activity-rich planning shift for the SuperCam uplink squad, but a fantastic day (night?) of learning from the experts :)

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This means rapid burial of anything that may have been living in the water. It may sound a bit gruesome, but deltas can be like microbial graveyards where the organisms are beautifully preserved because they were entombed so quickly and nothing has broken them down. (3/n)

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Lordy lordy. I got to design some laser shooting experiments on Mars today 🔫 After what has felt like a lifetime of prioritizing driving and nooo laser shootin (sad), @NASAPersevere is finally slowing down and smelling (ablating) the roses (rocks). Yay. Pew pew again.

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3 years

My dear dad snapped this stunning photo of the eclipse!! The clouds fought him for most of the event, but thinned out just enough during the peak so he could get this moody, otherwordly shot.

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We just completed our "shakedown" - an overnight trip close to McMurdo Station to test out the gear we'll need to survive the Antarctic "Deep Field", where support is much more limited. IT WAS AWESOME! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE REAL THING! More on the blog:

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Wheel tracks!!! @NASAPersevere has been parked since December, trying to shake loose some debris trapped in the rover chassis. The engineers are still reviewing the issue but we've been cleared to move and are already kicking up dust. Weo 🎉

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But wait, there's more! Since many tributary streams often feed into the main river that forms a delta, deltas also give us a chance to sample dirt that came from several different environments, all in one place. Pretty handy! (4/n)

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Hooorayy🎉 You're looking at the 14th rock sample that the @NASAPersevere rover has plucked out of the Martian surface! Hopefully to be delivered to excited scientific hands in the future. This one has been nicknamed Mageik 🪄 and likely formed in a 3–4-billion-year-old lake.

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Okay. My parents are officially on the geology trip of my dreams without me and I am green with envy (but also very grateful for their photos because just LOOK at this ammonite)

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2 years

The area we landed next to (white dashed line) is named Séítah and its compelling because: (1) it contains a mineral called olivine, which usually forms deep underground (2) the geometry of the rock layers tells us that it is very old (6/n)

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The #ANSMET team is delayed at McMurdo Station. But that has given us the opportunity to enjoy the local trail network and admire the awesome geology - including some chunky xenoliths!! More on the blog:

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In other words, we could be looking at especially ancient rocks that were exhumed deep from Mars' insides!! Wicked cool just on principle. But also scientifically cool for learning about how Mars' interior formed and cooled, and how the landscape evolved through time. (7/n)

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And because scientists are often opportunists, we couldn't resist exploring this special patch of rocks we were lucky enough to land next to. So that is why we took a short southerly detour into Séítah. Unfortunately, Séítah is too sandy for us to drive *through*. (8/n)

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Flying home from Iceland took me over the expanse of icebergs that swirl in the ocean currents off the coast of Greenland. From above they look wispy and ethereal and all I want now is to see them up close.

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The difference a few hours can make! @NASAPersevere will often take identical photos at different times because the Sun angle can dramatically change what details we appreciate in the scene. The left is the morning (low sun) and the right is with the Sun is overhead. How cool.

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ALERT! Cooool rocks ahead... My parents are cycling through Spain and keep sending photos of absolutely glorious rock formations. Like, well done, Earth. Those are some damn nice sculptures.

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👀 First look at Mars' Margin Carbonate Unit up close! And it's knobbly! Can't wait to start exploring how it formed! You can read a bit more about why this unit is interesting here:

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And since our mission is to search for signs of ancient life, this concentrated microbial graveyard is a *stellar* place to look. So let's go the the delta! But! Percy landed ~2 km away from the delta and smack next to an area that looks veerrry interesting from orbit. (5/n)

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What a weird little rock that @NASAPersevere drove by... Looks like some Martian came by and sliced it right open🔪 (rocks for lunch?) We've named it Chignik and fired our laser at it a few times to try to figure out what it could possibly be made of.

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Wowowow! I've seen cooled remnants of lava bombs, but never pictured them charging down a hill quite like this

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3 years

Spallation lava bomb coming down from #LaPalmaVolcano on 27 Oct 2021. #CumbreVieja

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And I'm crying. Now it begins. Images Received. History is hurling towards us.

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Mcmurdo station from Observation Hill! The largest community in Antarctica, and our temporary home while the #ANSMET team waits to fly into the Transantarctic Mountains for field work! The big blue building to the upper left is our dorm (and cafeteria!) 😁

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Sometimes my family pokes fun at my PhD by saying that all I do is play with mud. At first I was insulted. Then I found myself spending my Sunday afternoon checking on my mud samples and getting excited about the cool little cracks that had formed in the oven. My PhD is mud.

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Go big or go home ;) #Ingenuity performed flight 2 a few hours ago, this time reaching for greater heights and experimenting with some spiffy new moves: tilting, zagging sideways, spins 💃 And photos, of course! Data should be down soon 🤞

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Asked my dad to help me take some new professional headshots. He captured all the in-between moments and none of the proper smiles. 10/10, pa. Very professional.

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1 year

Aw shucks, @NASAPersevere saw her shadow. Guess that means 6 more months of Mars.

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2 years

This week, the @NASAPersevere rover has put extra emphasis on studying the sand and loose rocky material ("regolith") on Mars. Why? Because we will soon try - for the first time - to collect regolith in a sample tube destined for Earth. A 🧵on why we want to bring dirt home!

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Percy be nimble, Percy be quick, Percy navigate around a boulder(-ick). Not my best rhyme, but Perseverance is getting sporty these days and driving nimbly around obstacles.

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I TOUCHED MARS EGAD (Definitely microbes on this sample)

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

5 months

The midnight sun shining gloriously over McMurdo station!! The ANSMET team has had a pretty spectacular welcome to Antarctica and I'm very quickly falling in love with these mountain views 🗻 (I am already smitten with my Big Red coat!) Follow along:

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

8 months

Isn't it amazing to be able to open up a browser and gaze upon the vistas of a whole other world?

Simeon Schmauß

@stim3on

8 months

On Sol 913 the #Perseverance Mars rover captured this new panorama of the Margin Carbonate Unit. This area is thought to be the shoreline of ancient lake Jezero. Full size: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

3 years

So close!!

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

5 months

The *perfect* place to ring in 2024 under the midnight sun! Happy new year all! Left to right: Drs. Lauren Edgar, Robert Citron, me, Minako Righter! (best team ever)

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

5 months

This place couldn't be more beautiful if it tried. -From the top of Observation Hill looking out towards Erebus, the southernmost active volcano in the world!

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

3 years

My gosh, this planet is so gorgeous

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

2 years

Wild winds are blowing on Mars! Only 12 sols have passed between these photos and the fine grains created by @NASAPersevere 's drill have shifted considerably in the wind. (Okay, the wind isn't blowing that wildly, but it's cool to see Mars' surface moving before our robot eyes)

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

8 months

First peek *inside* the rocks of the Margin Carbonate Unit 👀 It's surreal to think that @NASAPersevere has finally made it to one of the rock units that motivated the selection of Jezero Crater as the landing site for our mission. We're on the brink of some awesome insights 😍

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Erin Gibbons, PhD 🚀

@ErinSpaceCase

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Merry Christmas eve!

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