Little Witch Academic 🧙♀️
@mars_mapper
Rachel 🏳️⚧️ Just a mess living her best life. planetary science, birds, fermentation, and some things in between.
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"Perseverance Has a Pet Rock!" I had a lot of fun writing the latest #Mars2020 blog! 😀 For the last 4 months, @NASAPersevere has had an unexpected traveling companion... want to hear all about our Martian hitch-hiker? Check out the blog here: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/missi… 🪨🔴
science.nasa.gov
Perseverance Has a Pet Rock! - NASA Science
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don’t— it chooses you.
Need help distinguishing Common ravens from American crows? I promise this will help corvidresearch.blog/2020/04/16/the…
My analysis on these two good birbies!!
Went on a birding walk today and learned so much! Ran across a Ruby-Crowned Kinglet AND a Hutton’s Vireo (lifer!). Can you tell them apart from my photos? 😉 It makes no damn sense. Compels me, though. 🕵️♀️📸
Went on a birding walk today and learned so much! Ran across a Ruby-Crowned Kinglet AND a Hutton’s Vireo (lifer!). Can you tell them apart from my photos? 😉 It makes no damn sense. Compels me, though. 🕵️♀️📸
A California condor who did it by herself
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Scientists at SDZWA discovered two California condor chicks have hatched from unfertilized eggs. This sort of asexual reproduction, known as parthenogenesis, is a first for the species and provides new hope for their recovery. Read more: sdzwa.org/condorchicks
Me: I will take care of it tomorrow. Tomorrow:
You can also count the number of long “finger feathers” (primaries). While both crows and ravens each have ten, on crows feathers 9-5 are typically quite long and obvious while on ravens feather # 5 is noticeably shorter. So crows looks to have 5 fingers while ravens only have 4.
Many Indigenous people live in dark-sky communities & they're already noticing impacts of satellite constellations amidst the stellar constellations we all know & love. Calling it "astrocolonialism" isn't an exaggeration. Excellent story by @beckyferreira. vice.com/en/article/k78…
This is what I spent my day doing today. I'm still trying to come up with an effective way for me to understand the paths trans-Neptunian objects take. This one has a line for each TNO, spanning its perihelion to aphelion distances from the Sun, at its inclination angle.
I successfully defended my PhD on Tuesday and I am really proud of myself! 🥰
The gremlin himself after a nap and before his brushing!
Update on my first sampling attempt: looks like the rock I drilled was too crumbly and broke into small fragments/powder, instead of producing an intact core. Pushing ahead to find my next target, expected to be more like rocks we cored on Earth. More: go.nasa.gov/3xDY8ka
I need some fellow queer geeks to appreciate this new shirt with me. (It's less fun when I have to explain it)
What are you NOT supposed to do with it is really the question Use this information for: Homework assignments Impressing dates Existential reflections Appreciating nature Distracting enemies Making friends Internet clout Becoming a crow person Becoming a crow
Regina Giménez - Geometría cósmica - gouache and collage on paper, 95x68 cm (2017)
Tiny rabbits enjoy eating prickly pear flowers.
Training a machine learning API for my birdfeeder Twitter bot at 2 AM after working an M2020 shift while on Mars time is a VIBE 🐦💻🚀💫
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