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Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL. Travels to Jupiter every 53.5 days. USMC vet. Opinions are mine. @kevinmgill .bsky.social

Los Angeles, CA
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Composite view of Europa, @NASAJuno Perijove 45
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People seemed to like the Europa/Io/Titan gifs, so as an experiment I went and made a short video of them. The Voyage of the Moons. Image data via @CassiniSaturn
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Shot of Jupiter, Saturn, and the kids from Los Angeles using a 600mm lens.
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Martian afternoon sun in Jezero Crater, via @NASAPersevere on Sol 4
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@PAYOLETTER Science. I work at NASA/JPL now, so...
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The Sun being eclipsed by Mars' moon Phobos, captured by @MarsCuriosity 's MastCam on April 4 2020 (Sol 2723). Adjusted for true time rate (39 seconds start to finish).
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Renders of @MarsCuriosity 's home in Gale Crater using new @HiRISE DTM data -
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Awww, it looks like @NASAPersevere found a tiny fossilized brachiosaurus on Mars ❤️
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Happy Holidays from Mars 🎄
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how it started how it ended
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The Mother and Child. @NASAPersevere Sol 46
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Mental health check
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And the Pleiades cluster because it makes my daughter happy :-) 👨‍👧
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A shot of our moon while I was at it...
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What is the best planet in the Solar System and why is it Jupiter?
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The shadow of Io. @NASAJuno Perijove 22 -
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Those final images from Cassini... 😥
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Here's Jupiter's North Pole, enhanced for your phone's wallpaper... @NASAJuno Perijove 33 Enjoy!!
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How it started How it's going
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Europa passing over Jupiter's Great Red Spot as seen by @CassiniSaturn in January 2001
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Saturn's North Pole in enhanced color, processed using Cassini data from July 2013 -
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Saturn and Titan, processed using near-infrared filtered images taken by Cassini in May 2015.
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Well weathered pebbles on Mars, imaged by @MarsCuriosity 's MALHI camera on Sol 2356 (March 24th) -
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Wow, finally have some raw data from @NASAPersevere hazcams. In shockingly good quality! Just goofing with the data here, eyeballing the lens distortion correction...
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I'm loving this butte nearby to @NASAPersevere . Seen here using MastCam-Z images taken on Sol 4
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Lost
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Name the TV show...
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The Eastern Great Red Spot on Jupiter, @NASAJuno Perijove 12 - April 1st -
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Sol 404: Parachute Found. @NASAPersevere Sol 404
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Storms on Jupiter are a mood @NASAJuno Perijove 35
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I just got a really nice email from the pilot of this exact plane. I'm so excited he got to see it! 🙂
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A pan across Jezero Crater using a wide panoramic view taken by @NASAPersevere Mastcam-Z on Sol 96. Rendered sorta slow. Take your time will all that detail!
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Ganymede, @NASAJuno Perijove 34 -
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Polarized Near-Infrared view of Saturn, processed using Cassini data taken in November 2012
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Fun Space Fact: Jupiter is larger than all planets in the universe that are smaller than Jupiter.
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Here's an enhanced Jupiter view for your devices wallpaper. @NASAJuno Perijove 36. Enjoy!
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A tri of dust devils in Jezero Crater caught on camera by @NASAPersevere on sol 372
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Cone Nebula, processed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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A Martian Flower 🌻. Imaged by @MarsCuriosity yesterday on Sol 3397 using MAHLI and ChemCam.
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Ok, here's a @NASAJuno wallpaper for your device using a fish-eye marble view of Jupiter from Perijove 29. Enjoy!
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Saturn in near-infrared, processed using data taken by Cassini in July 2017
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Earth. @NASAJuno Flyby, October 2013
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Sol 82 @NASAPersevere SuperCam shot of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
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Stunning morning clouds over Jezero Crater, captured by @NASAPersevere 's NavCams a few hours ago on Sol 738 NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill
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Testing my new camera out on Jupiter and Saturn last night. Not too bad :-)
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Io over Jupiter in January 2001 as seen by @CassiniSaturn
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Shot of the Great Conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn. With moons! (I love moons ❤)
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The eye of a northern hemisphere storm on Jupiter as seen by @NASAJuno . Formatted and enhanced for your phone's wallpaper. Enjoy!
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Jupiter and Saturn last night from Los Angeles.
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Boots in the sand :-) Color navcams, I love it! ❤️
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With nods to @BackyrdAstroGuy for the idea, here’s some Jupiter for your phone’s wallpaper image. @NASAJuno Perijove 26
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Hey, @elonmusk , as the artist who created the Mars canvases by your office, I urge you to please sit and read this and know what you've created and how it's hurting good people. Please.
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I interrupt today's Marsfest to bring in some Jupiter, freshly down from @NASAJuno
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Ingenuity helicopter, @NASAPersevere sol 46 (White balanced processing)
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The Earth and Moon visible as points beyond Saturn's Rings, via @CassiniSaturn in April 2017 -
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🔘 Saturn . 💍D-Ring 66,900 km 💍F-Ring 140,000 km . 🌖Mimas 185,000 km . 🌖Enceladus 238,000 km . 🌖Tethys 294,500 km . 🌖Dione 377,000 km . . 🌖Rhea 527,100 km . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 🍊Titan 1,221,500 km . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 🌖Iapetus 3,560,500 km
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New @MarsCuriosity MAHLI selfie taken on Sol 3070 (March 26th) with the rover proudly standing next to it's newest drill hole and Mont Mercou.
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Dust devils caught by @NASAPersevere 's NavCams on Sol 151
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Crescent Moon tonight from my backyard in Los Angeles.
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OMG, this is the best I have ever done with the Orion Nebula! This is with a 600mm lens and 180 seconds of exposure (18 x 10sec, mean stack)
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Uranus, rings, and moons as seen by @NASAHubble on August 31 2006.
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This one fucking rock... ( @MarsCuriosity Sol 2620)
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The Ingenuity helicopter on Sol 47 (this morning!). Post blade release checkout images with the Navcams. @NASAPersevere
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Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt and the Shadow of Io, @NASAJuno Perijove 22 -
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So amazing that this is on Mars now. 😮
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Tada!!! Unveiling the #Mars2020 aeroshell and heatshield at @NASAJPL !!!
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Solitude. Enceladus showing off it's south polar plumes and the diffuse E-Ring of it's own making. Processed using false color IR+UV data taken by Cassini in May 2006.
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Jupiter and the shadow of Ganymede, @NASAJuno Perijove 40
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New Jupiter! The first images from @NASAJuno Perijove 23 are available
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So, Adobe added a Sky Replacement function to Photoshop. So, to abuse this new power, here's Gale Crater (on Mars) as a lake and with nice puffy clouds overhead.
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On June 16 2017, Cassini aimed its camera towards the rings as it descended between them and the planet's cloud tops. This is what it saw.
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The Moon and Mars 💕
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A northern wide angle fish-eye view of Jupiter's folded filamentary region, processed using imagery taken by @NASAJuno on Perijove 29.
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I caught Jupiter looking. 👀 @NASAJuno Perijove 33
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Folks, it's #Jupiter 's Great Red Spot from @NASAJuno Perijove 7!!!!!!! -
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Here's a mobile-friendly wallpaper featuring Jupiter's northern filamentary region, @NASAJuno 40 Enjoy!
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The best part about Rosette Nebula: It's an evil skull! 💀 Check it out, it's looking to the lower left.
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"Dogshit Rock" on Mars @NASAPersevere Sol 125 via Mastcam-Z
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Saturn as seen by Voyager 2 in August 1981
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Ok, Jupiter is just showing off at this point. @NASAJuno Perijove 35 -
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Welp, ok, I think I'm done. I think I've processed all the color images from Cassini. Huh. Do we get to launch a new mission to Saturn now?
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Was just playing around with the descent images from @MarsCuriosity , trying to smooth out the low frame rate. Figured I'd share...
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Here's a close-up shot of Jupiter's North Temperate Region, optimized as a phone wallpaper. @NASAJuno Perijove 33 Enjoy!
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Seeing Saturn though the lens of Titan. Processed using Cassini imagery taken on March 31 2005.
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OK, I had to try and colorize it myself. Also tried to linearize some of the fisheye effects. Original:
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Good morning from Mars! 👋 @NASAPersevere Sol 45
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Interesting "holey" rock imaged by @NASAPersevere 's Mastcam-Z in a multispectral observation on sol 37 (March 28th). The rover's first meteorite??
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Southern view of Jupiter, @NASAJuno Perijove 34
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A New Dust Storm Selfie from @MarsCuriosity is coming down from Mars :-)
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Crescent view of Jupiter, @NASAJuno Perijove 34 Enjoy! #WallpaperWednesdayButOnAFriday
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Sorry about all the clouds over Los Angeles lately. It's my fault, I bought a new astrophotography camera
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Best Planets Ranked: 13. You 12. Can't 11. Rank 10. Them 9. Because 8. Planets 7. Are 6. All 5. Awesome 4. In 3. Different 2. Ways 1. Saturn
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Oh, hey, look, that's totally a little doorway for little aliens that totally exist, like, on Mars!
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This is Earth as seen by Apollo 16. Note you can't see borders. You can't see walls. It is one place. One people. One world. We need to treat it as such. Take care of it and each other.
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AVALANCHE!!! On Mars ;-) @MarsCuriosity Sol 1349
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A meteorite. On Mars. @MarsCuriosity Sol 604
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Earth during the @NASAJuno gravity assist in October 2013.
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Sirius was really twinkling last night so I grabbed the camera. Defocused a bit and opened the aperture to capture some of those colors :-)
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This is Saturn. I promise. Processed using calibrated methane-absorption band (near-infrared) images captured by Cassini in July 2016
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