My Own Tiny Superbloom
I grew up a long way from Southern California, in places where you felt the changing seasons in your bones: the dancing colors of autumn...
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Feb 28
The Only Constant is Change
I’ve been thinking a lot about where identity comes from. For most of my life, I have chosen to focus my identity on what my brain could...
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Feb 18, 2022
How it Started, How it’s Going
Science Definition Team work room, 2013. Photo by S. Milkovich In February 2013, I had a new routine: upon arrival at JPL each morning,...
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Dec 19, 2021
Cores of Rock
I stand in the back corner of the small elevator, holding my son’s hand as we rattle our way down and slightly sideways to the 27th...
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Oct 10, 2021
A Rebalancing
Like everyone else fortunate to have a steady paycheck that allows them to shelter-in-place this last year and a half, I’ve been doing an...
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Oct 30, 2014
Ending on a HiNote
In 2009, I became the HiRISE investigation scientist for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a role I’ve described in a few other places. I’ve...
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Jul 15, 2014
Interview at Planetary Society Blog
I forgot to mention here that I was interviewed over at the Planetary Society – Interview With A Mars Scientist! #HiRISE #interview...
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Jul 15, 2014
What is a scientist doing on a mission that does not yet have a science team?
When I tell my scientist friends that I work part-time on the Mars 2020 Rover, I usually get confused looks: “But there’s no science team...
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Jul 13, 2013
Thoughts on a Science Definition Team
There is a room at JPL that is currently covered in printouts – covering the walls and taped to the windows, stacked on the conference...
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Mar 6, 2013
Another Post Somewhere That Is Not Here
I’ve got a post up at The Space Place’s Mission Chronicles on my work for the Curiosity Rover. #Curiosity #mars #MSL
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Jan 26, 2013
Untitled
I’m still putting all my outreach time into other locations, so here are a few places where you can find me around the web: I’m working...
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Dec 21, 2012
HiRISE sees a Winter Wonderland on Mars
One of the tasks I’ve just taken on at work is to spruce up the MRO public website. I want to get more regular updates on there without...
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Nov 12, 2012
Untitled
In lieu of a real post, here’s the audio from last Friday’s Carl Sagan Day celebration held by the Planetary Society’s radio program....
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Aug 17, 2012
Reflections on Landing and Aftermath, Part 2
(This post was split into two parts; Part 1 is here.) In the early hours of August 6, I sat in the back of the Geology theme group...
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Aug 14, 2012
Reflections on Landing and the Aftermath, Part 1
(This got really long so I am breaking it into two posts. I hope to have the second half up in a day or two.) So, THAT happened. …I...
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Aug 5, 2012
Late-night musings before EDL
It is the very early hours of Sunday morning, and the rest of the household is asleep. For the past few nights, I have been staying up...
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Jul 26, 2012
10 Days to Go
First of all, if you haven’t yet seen the “Seven Minutes of Terror” video, go watch it. Now. Today at work, several hundred MSL team...
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Jun 10, 2012
Almost forgot
Here’s a link to a thing I wrote for the “Insider’s Cassini” page over at mission website: How to Plan Your Flyby #Cassini #Enceladus
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Jun 9, 2012
And here we are.
So I’ve finally caught up with my old posts, and am ready to break new ground. But first, a bit of contemplative navel-gazing concerning...
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Jun 9, 2012
Memory Lane: Cassini Scientist-For-A-Day
Note: I am posting my old blog entries from elsewhere on the internet. This entry was originally posted on 10/23/10. I did want to put...
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