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conorwhayes.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ York University studying lunar ices and clouds on Mars (among other miscellanea) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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New favourite sign discovered on a GO bus.

Have just realized that the clouds bot doesn't post any of the really old stuff because the SEQIDs were different...

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Big day for fans of windblown particulates.

Taking a moment to breathe and watch the pearly clouds go by (on Mars). www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

Great job by LPI reassuring anyone who might feel like they're putting themselves at risk by travelling to Texas! 🙄 #LPSC2025 (January vs today)

Curiosity rover update - Sols 4441-4442: Winter is Coming by Conor Hayes @conorwhayes.bsky.social, Graduate Student at York University science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44... 🧪🔭 #Mars

www.enr.com/articles/529... Really seems like the three possibilities here are: A) NASA's new Acting Administrator was lying in 2021 B) She's decided that keeping her job is more important than standing up for her beliefs C) This email was sent with her name attached but without her consent

Love getting an email that's basically just "Please report any of your coworkers who are not compliant with our preferred ideology."

Time to send another email to the PDS asking if something has gone awry in their archiving.

Some people would be satisfied with not understanding rover camera geometry. Unfortunately for my productivity, I am not one of those people.

Love it when Curiosity sends back images of wispy clouds in the martian sky... Sol 4423 image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Folks, a huge number of people at JPL have been affected by the LA wildfires, with many losing their homes. If you can, consider contributing to a fund that's been set up to help them: (Link looks sketch but site is legit) caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema...

My friends (and amazing planetary scientists / geologists) Elena & Topher Amador-French lost their home last night in the Eaton Fire. They had to flee with minutes warning. If you’re able, please donate to them and their family. Venmo: Elena-Amador.

Constantly being surprised by how bright Venus is.

Animation des mosaïques acquises par la caméra de navigation du rover Curiosity entre avril 2022 et décembre 2024. Ces mosaïques ont été assemblées Steve Albers qui les poste sur un site permettant de les parcourir facilement stevealbers.net/allsky/sites... © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers

Keeping your MSL images shortcut next to your Messages app means that sometimes you misclick and get a surprise image from Mars delivered to you as a popup.

Still having way too much fun with this.

3-bit ==> 6-bit

Having too much fun learning about image dithering.

For martian cloud fans, some more (older) (less visually spectacular) clouds* ☁️ *research note contains no pictures of clouds, only graphs about them #PlanetaryScience

A recent view of afternoon clouds on Mars, courtesy of the Curiosity rover which captured such cloud views on its 4399th Martian day, or 'Sol' on December 21st 2024. The scenery is from a survey of the same location. Composited and colorized from grayscale wide angle Navcam images.

Thin martian clouds over Gale Crater. Imaged as part of a twilight cloud movie sequence by the Mars Curiosity Rover on Sol 4400.

Described as "extremely rude."

Clouds in the martian sky, as seen by the Curiosity rover on Dec 21st... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

Maybe I should add twilight movies to the Clouds Bot...

Ya se han descargado las imágenes completas #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity Sol 4398-4399: Right Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA / JPL-Caltech /j. Roger

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Venus from 35000 feet.

We're advertising the concept of maple on the TTC now.

Son solo los thumbnails por ahora pero se esperan vistas espectaculares #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity Sol 4398: Right Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA / JPL-Caltech /j. Roger

Hoy sí unas vistosas nubes marcianas #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity Sol 4396: Right Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA / JPL-Caltech /MSSS/j. Roger

Activity in this week's group meeting was writing poetic summaries of our research.

Encountered the Council of Birds

🔴👽 Getting started into #SpaceArt to try something new Here are some Martian landscapes, showing some of the red planet's diversity, each associated with a rover mission: Opportunity, Sojourner, Curiosity and Perseverance 🧵Small explanation thread: