This beautiful creature is Scaphinotus vandykei, a snail-eating ground beetle from Arizona.
I'm a postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory working on Mars geochemistry.
This beautiful creature is Scaphinotus vandykei, a snail-eating ground beetle from Arizona.
#LPSC2023 Abstract 2440 (two of two!)
Ten thousand tempers
Of wavering wet and wry
Shape smidge salt on Mars.
Abstract title: Simulating Evaporative Wet and Dry Cycles in Gale Crater, Mars Using Thermochemical Modeling Techniques.
#LPSC2023 Abstract 2451 (one of two!)
Sour, bitter flavors
In the soup of Gale crater
Ended up in salts.
Abstract title: Estimating Past Fluid pH and Evaporative Conditions in Gale Crater, Using Terrestrial Analog Evaporites and Clays
#LPSC2023 Abstract 1283
The Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) Sidewalk Campaign in Marker Band Valley, Gale Crater, Mars
The landscape calls out, // "it's worth looking closely at // ground under your feet" #LPSCHaiku