V Martín

@sharponlooker
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Husband & Empty Nester. Software Engineer. Planetary Science aficionado. Casual artist. Basque/Spanish heritage, assimilated Swede = suecobilbaino. Star Wars sequelist. Kindness; common sense; 🙃-marked shitposting. All my art & photos licensed CC BY-NC-SA
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Location#Småland, Sweden
Tags#PlanetArtober #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroRimScience #JezeroRimSpherules
Webhttps://sharponlooker.net
@sharponlooker It first entered the Pluto lexicon through Jeff Moore (NH Geology Lead), who has an extensive background in Mars geology, is a former Patton tank commander, and can quote any Kubrick film in its entirety.
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Impact melt from the Gale crater yardangs as a possible source of that stunning pure sulfur #CuriosityRover crushed many sols ago. 🤯

Rapin (@irap ) et al: "Native Sulfur Deposit by Impact Melt Flow from Yardangs Unit at Gale Crater"
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2026/pdf/1036.pdf

Random fact: The Earth has been orbiting the Sun for the last ~5 billion years. During that time, it travelled ~0.2 Megaparsec along its orbit. This is about one fifth of the distance to the Andromeda galaxy.

Hey look, I made some plots that aren't about super depressing satellite shit!

(These ones are the result of hilariously complicated orbital dynamics. Please just enjoy how pretty they are and don't make me explain it.)

Updated shape model for #Arrokoth in arXiv

@simonbp et al: "The Shape of (486958) Arrokoth"
https://arxiv.org/html/2605.30069

First analysis of the #JezeroRimSpherules by the aptly-called " #PerseveranceRover Crater Rim spherule beds analysis team" in a recent #EGU26 abstract. It favours the impact spherules scenario but doesn't rule out volcanic origin.

Mangold et al: "Four-billion years old spherule beds revealed by Perseverance on the outer rim of Jezero crater"
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-6455

#JezeroRimScience

Abstract EGU26-6455

Tonight's Moon and a watching companion 🙃
My FIL's flightpath when they discovered a wildifre this evening in one of their sentry rounds. Must have been a bumpy ride with the wind gusts. Brushfire risk is off the charts again.