A. Sokołowska
@sokolowska.bsky.social
Im a physicist working in planetary science at Imperial.
Repurposing mission debris | Is space debris left behind on other planets and moons just waste, or can it be repurposed as a scientifically viable experiment? We asked ourselves that question in a recent study in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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I'm giving a talk at the @europlanetmedia.bsky.social Science Congress 2026 on Thursday, 10 Sep, 11:48–12:00 (CEST) Room Jupiter (Jazz 1 & 2). Come and find out what "blast zone streaks" are, and how we think that they formed! #EPSC2026
Check out this tapestry inspired by HIRISE @uahirise.bsky.social @nasaupdates.bsky.social Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images and created by my former student Ian Haut at @brown.edu deeps.brown.edu/news/2026-05... As he says, it all started with looking at rockfalls on Mars!
FOLIATION: Tapestries of Earth Science
DEEPS is proud to present our newest Lincoln Field Art Show, "FOLIATION." This series of tufted-rug tapestries are created by Ian Haut '26, inspired by remote sensing satellite images of Earth and pla...
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I'm supporting a new initiative of many prominent Polish scientists to popularise impact science in Poland. A donation campaign is now running for organising the next pop science event near a famous European strewn field of craters in the forests of Morasko. pomagam.pl/en/p64fcy
Kratery Meteorytowe Morasko: Najkosmiczniejsze Miejsce w PL | Pomagam.pl
Zbieramy na popularyzację wiedzy o Ziemi i Kosmosie w najbardziej kosmicznym miejscu w Polsce: kraterach meteorytowych Morasko! Meteoryt Morasko należący do astrofotografa Michała Zimnego. Około 4,5 t...
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Happy news, I was awarded the Ernest Rutherford Fellowship for my new project SPACEFORCE, funded by @ukri.org, and the additional Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowship to help me start up my group by @glasgow.ac.uk. For the next 5 years, I will be investigating impacts and airbursts in the Solar System
NASA Earth Observatory image of the day Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... Credits: images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. 🧪🔭
Locations of my research talks of the last two months (mid Jan-mid March), I’m currently speaking about “From Ejecta to “Wind Streaks”: Interpreting New Impacts on Mars and the Moon”. Full abstract below. If you want to invite me to speak at your institution, feel free to reach out!
Roses are red Violets are blue Mars is a cold hell hole And will absolutely fucking kill you
It made me laugh. I think it was a laughter of relief that I am not crazy seeing the same thing... www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademi...
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Isn't it ironic that the community's asked to help determine priorities for the next decade for free & later gets served a catastrophic bill "we will need to make difficult choices... ceasing or reducing investments [in funded projects]" Never seen anything like this... ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Proposed budget cuts a catastrophe for UK astronomy
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is gravely concerned at the drastic cuts to support for UK astronomy outlined by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (...
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Beautiful aurora seen last night during high geomagnetic activity❗ Automatic auroral recognition routine classifying All-Sky Camera images acquired at the Kevo station in Northern Finland by FMI as a demonstration product👇 🌐 swe.ssa.esa.int/fmi-federated
I submitted an abstract to LPSC 2026. I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment. (1/2)
#PPOD: This image shows a new impact crater on Mars that formed between July and September 2018. It's notable because it occurred in the seasonal southern ice cap and has apparently punched through it, creating a two-toned blast pattern. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
My deepest condolences to everyone affected by the events of last night in the Brown University community. Words escape me. Nobody's safety should be violated in this most despicable way. Reach out to your friends and colleagues, take some time to process and grieve. Your wellbeing comes first.
The registration for the 2026 @planetarymapping.bsky.social Winter School is open: www.planetarymapping.eu One just needs a very affordable @europlanetmedia.bsky.social membership Materials will be of openly available after the school @coop.planetary-research.org @openplanetary.solarsystem.social
2026 Winter School
General information and registration for the 2026 Europlanet Winter School in Planetary Geologic Mapping
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Great news for the UK planetary defence and research involving asteroids / comets and impacts: during the NEO Community Day at the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social a group of folks from academia, industry and government mapped the capabilities of the community and made ambitious plans for the future.
Cuts to geology programmes, departmental mergers and shrinking university support threaten the long-term health of the discipline. Now, Jan Zalasiewicz examines the developing situation at the University of Leicester: geoscientist.online/sections/vie... #Geology #Geoscience #HigherEducation
Geology imperilled - GEOSCIENTIST
In recent years, universities across many western nations, including several in the UK, have closed Earth science courses and downsized their geology departments. The University of Leicester is the la...
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Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.
Two years ago, asteroid 2023 CX1 was spotted seven hours before it struck Earth's atmosphere over northern France. Now, researchers have published an analysis of the event and the recovered meteorite that challenges our asteroid hazard models: www.esa.int/Space_Safety... Image: M. Uzzal
Mars rover Rosalind Franklin: chances of finding evidence of past life on Mars boosted by two studies www.europlanet.org/how-the-stuf... #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci
I love my job as a professor, but increasingly it feels like being a lottery winner in the academic hunger games. The best advice for most people thinking about a PhD is: don't. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Don't Do a Ph.D. Now
At least in the United States
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Ania Łosiak introduced the plans to build a new educational center in Morasko, Poznan, where a very rare strewn field of craters is located. impakt-morasko.pl #EPSCDPS2025
Our research paper on rockfalls near the landing site of @esa.int rover is now covered in the press release from @europlanetmedia.bsky.social Come see me at my poster this evening! #EPSCDPS2025 www.europlanet.org/how-the-stuf...
How the Stuff of Life Could Be Brought to Europe’s Mars Rover by Rockfalls and Ancient Floods – Europlanet
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Im in love with Finland (exhibit a for context) but... Ill be on my most social behavior when I present my poster about the discovery and characterization of rockfalls (exhibit b) in the region of explor. of a future European rover on Thur. Come see me at #epscdps2025
Impact crater caused by (possibly) a piece of #PerseveranceRover cruise stage. Comparison between HIRISE images from 2012, 2021 and 2024. Approximately 70km NW of #JezeroCrater: muted.uni-muenster.de?x=76.208&y=1... 🧵 1/2 #PlanetaryScience
I'm finishing slides for the @europlanetmedia.bsky.social & @aas.org EPSC-DPS 2025 meeting. I'll speak on Monday at 15:27 CEST in TP3 - Impact processes in the Solar System. I'll show the analysis of too many hardware impacts from Mars2020, incl. HiRISE data analysis and numerical sims with iSALE
The clouds cleared away for a portion of last night and the meteor cameras recorded more Perseid meteors. The first pair of images were acquired from within the city of Calgary. The second pair of images were recorded by a camera south of Calgary. Moonlight was still a factor last night.
Fireball and probable meteorite fall in Scotland on July 2nd. #Meteor #Astronomy #Space www.imo.net/fireball-and...
Fireball and probable meteorite fall in Scotland on July 2nd | IMO
What a show! On July 2nd, 2025, 23h 50min UT (which equals July 3rd, 00h 50min BST) a dramatic fireball enlighted Scottish skies and was reported by nearly 150 people all over Great Britain and Irelan...
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