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Studying planets and moons at University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Lab. Also cats, nature photography, and life around Tucson. #TeamRadar #BacktoVenus
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Oh and TGO is cassis right? So we are on that as well.
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KPLO... This is an impressive chart.
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But yes, I think Congress could still stop it, if they really wanted to.
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It's the president's proposal, but my understanding is that since that is the FY26 budget, it would take effect Oct. 1, so they are planning now. I have been told, if a CR is passed, then that gives NASA broad flexibility to implement what the president wants, if within the continued budget.
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I would also like to point out that while it is important to get numbers correct, the difference between 40%, 45%, 48% and 50% is not that different when considering the functioning of the center. And small differences could depend on details of retirements, contractors, etc.
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The engineers on my project are all over-subscribed on projects already. If they all lose their job, all the projects they worked on will also abruptly end with no one left to take them over.
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I've worked on developing radars with people there for a decade. The entire program could come to a sudden end without ever having a capability to use the technology from all that work, which is incredibly wasteful.
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At least this way it doesn't fall out onto any airplanes, islands or boats!
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UTM. We can define the grids for each planet. 😂🤪
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That is a pic of white gneiss, quartzite etc. fragments In a dark matrix of basement rock. The impact happened in the water. Then it was buried, then planed off by glaciers. Cool you can even see it after all these years.
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Also this looks like a useful (free) textbook in statistics: www.statlearning.com
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1. Don’t unknowingly use data. When doing data science, you need to know, and understand (at least at some level), the data collection methods, and document them for later reference (write it down now and save yourself time later!).
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We still have the mirror lab and a great space program with large telescopes and missions. The history is amazing here. Awesome that you are a graduate!
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Those of you who follow this account know that I'm a big fan of Venus, in no small part because NASA hasn't flown a Venus mission since *1994*.
Both DAVINCI and VERITAS have already been delayed, and VERITAS was "soft-cancelled" for a year.
This is wanton, and for what?
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Picking this back up.
One of the, in my view, cruelest things that's been cut is the trifecta of Venus missions, which had been paid from the Discovery budget line:
"...to achieve cost savings, the DAVINCI, VERITAS, and EnVision missions are eliminated."
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Yes, and corrupt enrichment of certain people and companies!
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The funds we spend on science ripple out through communities attached to NASA centers, universities, and private companies, providing incredible economic returns as well as cutting edge information that is freely shared with everyone.
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Wow glad you are OK! Tornado in Clayton is pretty weird. Or at least I hadn't heard of tornadoes there.