New Io images from Juno
Look at these amazing mountain shadows!
Prometheus
I like the subtitle the editors picked for this article, it reminds me of the last Calvin & Hobbes comic:
OSIRIS-REx!!!
So so awesome
Io and Jupiter (from Juno)
Gillis-Davis on Lunar Sulfur
Jeff Gillis-Davis wrote a great article for The Conversation on sulfur on the Moon, what it means, and what we can do with it.
Mars Sample Return Science Definition Team
Kun Wang and I were chosen to be a part of the Mars Sample Return Science Definition Team. I’m excited to working out all the analyses we’ll do on these samples, currently being cached by Perseverance, to maximize the science return of MSR.
Welcome Tansu!
We have a new professor in the Laboratory for Space Sciences at Wash U: Tansu Daylan! Tansu is an expert in exoplanets and will help us generalize our understanding of the Solar System to other planetary systems in the Galaxy. So excited to have Tansu here, and his office is next door to mine, how cool is that?!
Juno is approaching Io!
The Juno mission made remarkable measurements of Jupiter and its magnetosphere. For its encore (extended mission), Juno is getting closer and closer to Io. Excitement awaits, Io never disappoints!
Where is the 26Al in Cometary Material?
Grad student Mary will present her work on the lack of 26Al in cometary rocks at the Meteoritical Society meeting in Los Angeles. This is a fascinating mystery, and now we have the tools and samples to solve it!