James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane Twitter profile

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James Tuttle Keane

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4 years

So, got married today 💛

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3 years

New space pride pins—now with the inclusive and trans pride flag colors! Produced by JPL Spectrum. 🚀🏳️‍⚧️🪐🏳️‍🌈

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I’m excited to announce that today is the first day of my new job at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory! I look forward to a future of planetary exploration! 🚀🪐🌗 @NASAJPL

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NASA pride pins are in! @DrAstroStu and I will be giving them out this week at #LPSC2019 . 🏳️‍🌈🚀

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My Juno Participating Scientist Proposal was selected!!!! I'm joining @NASAJuno ! I'll be using a combination of theoretical models and Juno data to figure out how the wacky geology of Io, Europa, an Ganymede "contaminate" gravity data. (1/6)

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Watching the data stream down from #DARTMission via the Deep Space Network (DSN) at @NASAJPL ! T-minus 1 hour, 15 minutes until DART impacts an asteroid!

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Happy #Pride ! 🌈🚀🪐 #SpacePride #NASApride #PRIDE2020 #NASA

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Since it’s apparently too hard for scientists to be decent, here’s my proposal for dealing with jerks at #AGU19 . @waterbarnes @PlanetDr

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5 years

My new sketch of @NewHorizons2015 ’s small Kuiper Belt object, #MU69 ! It’s a glimpse into the discussions going on behind the scenes: what do the shapes and colors mean and what geologic processes are at play? We will soon find out! @NASANewHorizons @JHUAPL #UltimaFlyby

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7 years

Some behind the scenes info: I usually sketch talks in pen, and color them in after. #DPS17

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6 years

Telling a student presenter that you’re extremely disappointed in their talk during the questions time is inappropriate. #AGU17

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4 years

this weekend’s thrift store find: @NASAJPL GALILEO ACTION PACK!

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4 years

Just discovered this NASA webpage that has transparent PNG icons of a ton of spacecraft... perfect for putting lil spacecraft in your planetary white papers

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#UltimaFlyby accomplished! @NewHorizons2015 just flew past #UltimaThule to ring in 2019! New images will arrive today/tomorrow!

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Andy Ingersoll—Juno is revealing the interior of Jupiter. Amongst the many discoveries: the great red spot has a root! #DPS17

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6 years

NASA is using my sketches! I guess this is a good time to announce that I’ll be officially joining the New Horizons team as a resident artist, and will be sketching the MU69 encounter!

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6 years

The @NASANewHorizons spacecraft that flew past Pluto in 2015 is on its way to its next target: a distant, icy body in the Kuiper Belt. Now, new data hints that this object might have an orbital companion…a small moon! Get the details:

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François Forget—Earth & Pluto both have snow-capped mountains, but the origin of the snow is different. Earth: adiabatic rising, cooling, and condensing of H2O-rich air at high altitude. Pluto: mixing of atmospheric CH4 with cold boundary layer, and condensing. @NewHorizons2015

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Earth topography in the color of Mister Rogers's sweaters. Because I can.

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YAY #DRAGONFLY ! I’m so excited! (Sketch from DPS/EPSC ‘17.)

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sketching a subduction zone

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I decided I needed a globe of Io (Jupiter’s volcanic moon), so I made one! #TeamIo

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6 years

Just submitted an @LPSC2018 abstract ( #2981 ) about sketching science! I plan on showing our evolving views of Pluto and Ceres over the past three years, as recorded by my sketches!

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7 years

“Absurdly ludicrously brilliant” Sarah Hörst @PlanetDr —Titan’s atmo is a veritable wonderland of crazy chemistry. We need to go back #DPS17

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5 years

Signal lock! @NewHorizons2015 has checked in, and it survived the #UltimaFlyby , and has memory banks full of #UltimaThule science! @NASANewHorizons

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James Tuttle Keane

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3 years

Returned to JPL for my first day on lab since March 2020—and now I have an office with a view!

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2 years

Buckle up folks, we're going for a drive on the Moon. NASA's next strategic lunar mission: Endurance—a concept for traversing the Moon's South Pole–Aitken Basin and delivering ~100-kg of samples (!) to @NASAArtemis astronauts at the south pole. #PlanetaryDecadal (1/20)

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I LOVE THIS. Look at what my partner (a professional artist) made to perk me up after a long day working on @NewHorizons2015 ! I will forever see #MU69 as a goofy lil KBO with googly eyes! (Aaron Rodriquez, IG: DearestAntoine) @NASANewHorizons @JHUAPL @NASA #UltimaFlyby

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The interior structure of Pluto, revealed by @NewHorizons2015 - Nimmo et al. & Keane et al.

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Mars 2020 heat-shield and aeroshell in the @NASAJPL high-bay!

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4 years

The end of my first day! @NASAJPL

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5 years

Picked up some tailoring ahead of Star Trek Las Vegas. #STLV #STLV2019 @startrekcbs @StarTrek

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One of my personal highlights for the #PlanetaryDecadal — it contains my first real collaboration with @dearestantoine ! Here's some beautiful mixed-media schematic diagrams for the interior structure of Io and Europa (from Q8 [Chapter 11] in the #PlanetaryDecadal ):

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5 years

Visited the #StarTrekDiscovery exhibit at the @paleycenter . Biggest takeaway: @gershaphillips (costume designer) and her team are gods. Such beautiful costumes!

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The current and future @NASA missions to the small bodies of the solar system. Counting down to #UltimaFlyby ! #UltimaThule @NASAPsyche @NASALucy2Trojan @OSIRISREx @NASANewHorizons @NewHorizons2015 @ltelkins

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A key part of the #PlanetaryDecadal is prioritizing future robotic missions for exploring the Solar System. Buried in the new report are a set of 12 concept studies that were done in secret during the report. These complement the set of pre-Decadal concepts...

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As of right now, we have no idea what #UltimaThule looks like. Occultations gave hints, Light curves are flat, and Ultima is smaller than 1 LORRI pixel. That will hopefully change tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ll draw all the shapes! #UltimaFlyby @NASANewHorizons @NewHorizons2015

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Blueprint of Arrokoth (with the Enterprise D to scale) #Arrokoth @NewHorizons2015

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Topography of Pluto and Charon at the same scale. @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons

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My #UltimaThule menagerie. @NewHorizons2015 ’s first science images will arrive later today, and we’ll finally figure out what it looks like. Anyone want to bet? #UltimaFlyby @NASANewHorizons @JHUAPL

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2 years

My latest paper was published in @jgrplanets , so it's time for a thread about the geophysics of the most distant object ever explored up-close: Arrokoth! ⛄️🚀 (1/15) @theAGU @NewHorizons2015 @JHUAPL #MU69Flyby

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Finishing a long night of analyzing new images of #UltimaThule . I can’t wait for you all to see. For now, here’s a teaser... @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons #UltimaFlyby

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3 years

I just found out that the IAU (International Astronomical Union) named an #asteroid after me! 36773 Tuttlekeane!!!! 🌠 I'm honored to be listed with so many awesome scientists— @HannahSus @spacejammie @schmemela @RalucaRufu @WaltHarris et al.

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That moment when you realize they lit Phobos on fire for the #StarTrekDiscovery poster. #STLV #StarTrek

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4 years

😍 Look at all of the volcanoes, especially as Io falls into Jupiter’s shadow! #TeamIo

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4 years

Los volcanes de #Io un perijovio antes que en este tuit ¡se aprecia como entra en la sombra! #JUNO #Jupiter orbiter TARGET #IO DISTANCE 290913km 2018-12-21 ORBIT N. 17 #JIRAM / #JIR NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM/j. Roger

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Just watched the new episode of Star Trek: Discovery, and I thought I recognized a map they showed of some uninhabited world that featured prominently in the episode. They used a map of Pluto!!!! @startrekcbs @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons

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So... I may be a prophet. My 2017 sketch of a bilobate #UltimaThule is scarily similar to the real thing. #UltimaFlyby @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons

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5 years

My latest @NatureGeosci Sketch-Up is out, and it’s about @OSIRISREx and Bennu—a rubble pile asteroid with a complex history! The authors presented this work this morning at #LPSC2019 , and more sketches are coming! Shareable PDF: . @DSLauretta @kwalsh4

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7 years

The topography data currently on my computer: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, Pluto. I need to add more icy worlds...

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AGHHH! WE’RE ON OUR WAY TO IO! 🌗🚀🌋 #TeamIo #AmericasNextDiscoveryMission

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Alissa Earle—Pluto’s climate changes on a variety of timescales, from diurnal (Pluto day = 6.4 days), seasonal (Pluto year = 248 yr), to Milanković-style cycles (t~3 Myr). These varying insolation geometries likely control volatile transport and geology. @NewHorizons2015

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My graphical summary of #LPSC2017 . There was a lot of exciting science, resulting in lots of fun sketches!

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Dante Lauretta @DSLauretta — @OSIRISREx has arrived at Bennu, revealing a world dominated by boulders. Possible wobble detected, and some odd N–S ridges. We’re going to learn so much about this asteroid. #AGU18 #WelcomeToBennu

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6 years

felt like sketching this morning

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Throwing together a little summary graphic of the worlds I've worked on this year...

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Junichi Haruyama—SELENE radar has detected a lava tube off the Marius Hills skylight. Big enough to contain the #LPSC2017 venue #LPSC2017

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The #NASApride pins are returning! Support our KickStarter, so we can share these at forthcoming conferences! #Pride #STEM @DrAstroStu

Pride Pins

Rainbow pride pins with a swoosh!

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#AGU19 abstract submitted! Standby for geophysics at the edge of the solar system! @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons #MU69 #NewHorizons

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Linda Spilker—new gravity science results from Cassini’s grand finale! Saturn’s winds are deep, and the rings are young. #LPSC2018

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7 years

"The senior author provides relative scale of near-field boulders." #HumbleBrag

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4 years

I decided our home office needed a space rug.

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3 years

Every time I see a photo from the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, I can’t help but see the shadow of a Cylon Basestar flying over Mars.

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3 years

A dozen for the books!🚁The #MarsHelicopter ’s latest flight took us to the geological wonder that is the “South Séítah” region. It climbed 32.8 ft (10 m) for a total of 169 seconds and flew ~1,476 ft (~450 m) roundtrip to scout the area for @NASAPersevere .

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Io in color, topography, and colored pencil. #TeamIo

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Hanna Sizemore—Ceres has a significant cryosphere (even though it wasn’t immediately obvious). Latitudinal trends in debris flows and topography, and sporadic cryovolcanic mounds and bright spots. #AGU17

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Gosh, I love making planetary science graphics. Here's EVERY mission to the Jupiter System. 🚀 Figure created by me for a #TeamIo paper I'm writing. Data from @NASAJPL Horizons. @EuropaClipper @NASAJuno

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Our current hypothesis for the formation of 2014 #MU69 ! I made a simple version of this back at encounter, but had to update it (i.e., flatten MU69) for #LPSC2019 . I look forward to updating it in the future, as our hypotheses evolve! @NASANewHorizons @NewHorizons2015

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Alan Stern ( @AlanStern ) & Jeff Moore—A first look at #MU69 ’s geology! Big craters, small pits, bright and dark bands, distinct geologic units, and more! We’re going to be busy figuring this one out for a while! #LPSC2019 @NASANewHorizons @NewHorizons2015

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Lynnae Quick—Europa’s domes are consistent with eruption of a cryovolcanic slurry, filled with ice and/or salt particles. #AGU18

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Why yes, @JHUAPL , I will buy an awesome #Dragonfly t-shirt from a vending machine. 🪐🚁

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My new overly distracting Zoom background. #PerseveranceRover #Skycrane #CountdownToMars

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The gravity fields of solar system objects—scaled by the resolution of the measured gravity field. #v2050 #ArtOfPlanetaryScience

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Hey #TeamIo ! Our new review paper about Io observations was just published. Check it out! 🌋🌖

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2 years

so Target has Uranus ornaments

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6 years

Pencils sharpened, and ready to sketch some science #AGU17

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Well that looks familiar! @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons #UltimaThule #UltimaFlyby

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Back from the post office- with 3D prints of the Galilean satellites (to scale)! From @planetforgium / @Kupeplex

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Rapidfire sketch of #UltimaThule —now in color! #UltimaFlyby @NewHorizons2015 @NASANewHorizons

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New Horizons—Inbound to #UltimaThule . This may be my last sketch before we actually learn something about Ultima’s shape from @NewHorizons2015 . As I tweet, New Horizons is downlinking pixels... #UltimaFlyby #NYE2019 @NASANewHorizons @JHUAPL

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3 years

Lower Decker, reporting for duty (with my gay phaser—my gayser) #StarTrekLowerDecks

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4 years

Decided I needed a #Pride variant of my 3D-printed #StarTrekPicard badge. #StarTrek @startrekcbs 🖖🏳️‍🌈

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Lori Glaze @loriglaze —there so many reasons we need to go back to Venus. In order to get a mission we must NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER. #LPSC2018 #GalaxyGuest #ByGrabtbarsHammer

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In just one image, @NewHorizons2015 may have provided an important proof of “pebble accretion”. #UltimaThule ’s contact binary shape is characteristic of this gentle formation. #UltimaFlyby @NASANewHorizons

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So it begins... #DPS18

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Nine years ago, I came to @NASAJPL for the first time to develop a “pretend” mission concept in Team-X as a Planetary Science Summer School student. Last week, I went back to Team-X as a customer, developing a new concept that might be real someday. What an amazing ride. 🚀

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I just discovered that @NewHorizons2015 put their topography data online. It's beautiful! Here's Sputnik Planitia viewed from the northwest.

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4 years

Here's a teaser for my hand-drawn #DPS2020 presentation about The Case for Io! (Abstract 320.20) #TeamIo #SciArt 🌋🌖🚀

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Paul Schenk—The recent Ganymede flyby has enabled the creation of new stereo topography for select regions. Lots of interesting things, like a large dome very nearly aligned with Jupiter, and not associated with surface geology. No clue what it is! #LPSC2022

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I’m hijacking #OPAG on behalf of #TeamIo ! Magma ocean worlds are ocean worlds too! Graphic from our @KISS_Caltech report about tidal heating.

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Captain James Tiberius Keane, USS Discovery. Photo by @Miquai , pose by Jaylah. @startrekcbs #StarTrekDiscovery

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Lauren Schurmeier—Radial labyrinth are ~100 km diameter, 500 meter tall, eroded dome structures on Titan. They could be the surface expression of liquid water laccoliths. #AGU17

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Owner found! Mathematician apparently lost track of him on campus. Best part: the dog’s name is Pluto.

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Sean Hsu—Cassini dust analyzer has shown that dust grains get carried off the ring plane by Saturn’s magnetic field, and rain on to the planet at mid-latitudes. Ice rains out at the equator. More dust is raining out than ice (3:1); rings may be self-cleaning!

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7 years

LEGO @psychemission , off exploring a planetary core... @ltelkins @SeseASU

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BEAUTIFUL! Look at this painting of what it would look like if you were standing on #MU69 , viewing it's multiple horizons! @NASANewHorizons @NewHorizons2015

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Getting exited for the new images of Ultima Thule! I decided to do a quick painting, depicting Thule's surface. Hope it has craters! #UltimaThule #UltimaFlyby #NewHorizons

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I'm living for Zibi's joy! #Dragonfly

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6 years

We finished or @Caltech / @NASAJPL inspired chalk mural for #PasadenaChalkFestival ! It’s got everything from an Alan Bean-inspired astronaut, to Juno, InSight, WFIRST, and more! Puppy for scale.