Kevin M. Gill
@kevinmgill.bsky.social
Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL, Los Angeles. Curiosity Rover ECAM PUL. Saturn native, commutes to Jupiter. USMC vet. Opinions are mine https://apoapsys.com
This is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.
Aperiodic reminder that Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus has a subsurface liquid water ocean that it's blasting into space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
Red Sox just swept the Dodgers
Sheldon: What is happening?
ALT: Sheldon: What is happening?
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The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4970 drive this week. flic.kr/p/2ssyijV
Unexpected science lesson! We just found an owl pellet outside my backdoor. My daughter pulled it apart and found the bones of a recent meal.
I like this shirt. It's comfortable. But it is wildly inaccurate.
A butte, named Tolhuaca by mission scientists, up ahead of the Mars Curiosity Rover. Imaged using MastCam this past weekend on Sol 4966. flic.kr/p/2srD6xq
From NASA: Curiosity has delivered a new 360-degree panorama from Mars. “We’ve seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity’s eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away,” said the mission’s project scientist. Zoom into the rover's latest views: www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...
Some bits of epidote found near Pasadena, CA. flic.kr/p/2srSgaB flic.kr/p/2srLqoX flic.kr/p/2srSgcR flic.kr/p/2srSgbd
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains.
Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s.
While I was in New Hampshire recently, I found this nifty rock right in my in-law's backyard. I think it's a form of quartz monzodiorite* with big microcline crystals. Lots of time in the deep crust gave it abundant almandine garnet and sphene.
Another chunk of 1.2 Ga anorthosite/leucogabbro from the Anorthosite-Syenite-Gabbro Complex in Los Angeles' San Gabriel Mountains. It has these big chunky andesine or labradorite crystals.
Some nice colors in a cloud below the Sun near Los Angeles.
Some close-up shots of a chunk of talc-actinolite found in Los Angeles County (part of the Pelona Schist Formation). flic.kr/p/2sr2Rfu flic.kr/p/2sr1suQ flic.kr/p/2sr1K5u flic.kr/p/2sr2Rfu
Orthoceras fossils in limestone tiles at the dentist office.
Circles in the sand made by the Mars Curiosity Rover's spinning DRT brush over the weekend on Sol 4958. flic.kr/p/2sq1mXb
The @redsox.com are 17-2 since I posted this, have a 12 game win streak. Best team in baseball right now.
Kevin M. Gill@kevinmgill.bsky.social · last mo.The Red Sox this year...
Some neat shots taken from the International Space Station taken over the last two weeks by astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams. flic.kr/p/2spxB2B flic.kr/p/2spxB1K flic.kr/p/2spwvY6
Los Angeles County Fire helicopters fighting a fire that broke out today in Santa Clarita, CA.
Photographed some molten sunset clouds during a recent JetBlue flight to Boston. The third shot taken a few minutes later is above Grand Rapids, Michigan. flic.kr/p/2smdcdy flic.kr/p/2smdohy flic.kr/p/2smcoXf
Backyard fireworks to celebrate whatever you may be celebrating today.
