Instead of following accounts that post space images without proper credit, or flat out get the captions/credit wrong like the example @doug_ellison notes here, follow these folks instead: A thread. (1/n)
(Using a screenshot below so as not to promote the other account.)
For amazing photos and cinematic videos of Earth & beyond, check out @_TheSeaning. His processing of Juno images of Jupiter in particular are *STUNNING.* (2/n)
Astrophotographer, image processor, and JPL-er @kevinmgill also posts amazing pics and videos that he's created from data across the Solar System. (3/n)
If you're a fan of the outer planets, or the Voyager missions in general, @tsplanets is one of the best folks out there bringing new life to these old images of these distant worlds. (5/n)
Some of the best planetary astrophotography I've ever seen comes from @peachastro—I'm biased by Mars, but he's posting some epic shots of Jupiter and the Galilean moons lately! (8/n)
For cool images, space news, and tips on learning how to do your own space image processing like the folks in this thread, @elakdawalla is the hands-down expert! (11/n)
The best colour images of Mars from orbit I've ever seen are from @jccwrt, who works magic with data from Mars Express (among other satellites, but HRSC stuff is my fav). (12/n)
Are you a space image processor or astrophotographer? Share your stuff in the replies! I'd especially love to see more women out there, because it doesn't seem like there are many women on the image processing side. (The only ones I know of were in this thread!) (21/21)
Oh, hahaha I guess I should add that I used to do some of this stuff too! Haven't had the time in ages, but I used to make giant mosaics from Mars Recon. Orbiter Context Camera (CTX) images when I worked in mission ops for the camera. (22/22)
(And I know there are certainly more folks out there that I didn't mention—these are just the folks whose work I know best and who I've followed for awhile through Twitter or elsewhere!)
Like @corrinerojas who I can't believe I forgot but is posting cool pics and animations from Mastcam on Perseverance!
China's Zhurong rover released its first images from the surface of Mars! It touched down in Utopia Planitia, in the northern plains of Mars.
Let's take a little tour of Utopia Planitia today. (Thread: 1/n)
If Utopia sounds familiar, it's probably because (A) you're a #StarTrek fan, or (B) you remember that Viking 2 landed in Utopia back in the 1970s—but it's much farther north than Zhurong.
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Utopia Planitia, like a lot of Mars' northern plains, is pretty broad and flat at the large scale, which makes it an excellent landing site from an engineering safety standpoint.
Zhurong's area of Utopia is *much* less boulder-strewn than Viking 2's though!
Thread: Since #LPSC2020 was cancelled, some of us held an online conference over the weekend to present our work. Here's the presentation @DannyBednar and I had about the process behind writing "For All Humankind": forallhumankind.space
Part of the inspiration behind writing "For All Humankind" was the plaque left behind on the lunar lander: #lpsc2020
The lunar plaque reads:
"Here men from the planet Earth
first set foot upon the Moon
July 1969 A. D.
We came in peace for all mankind."
The mission also carried a disc of goodwill messages written by leaders around the world.
Michael Byers: Since the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite weapon test, not a single nation has tried a similar test b/c nations realize that generating more space debris harms EVERYONE, not just the nation whose satellite was targeted. #OSI2018
The overarching theme of this panel has revolved around "Kessler Syndrome": Density of objects in low Earth orbit increases → collisions b/t objects cause a cascade effect → collisions generate space debris that increase the likelihood of further collisions. #OSI2018
.@AaronRosengren: Space may seem really big, but the locations of useful orbits are not. #OSI2018