If you want to search for lunar water, Christian Tai Udovicic will tell you that perspective is everything. The former student researcher is modeling how water's thermal signature is dependent on the angle of observation and is our #TrailblazerOfTheWeek! trailblazer.caltech.edu/news/christian…

One of the 1st images of Mars ever captured, thanks to our Mariner 4 mission. Launched #OTD in 1964, Mariner 4 gave humanity its initial views of the Red Planet & identified signs that water may’ve once flowed on the surface – information that shaped all Mars missions to follow

Banded fluorite from La Charbonnière, France. Fluorite can be such beautiful colours!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceTwitter

Don't miss the Jan. 31 Watson Lecture if you want to find out how the Lunar Trailblazer mission will determine the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the Moon! If you can't attend in person, there will be a YouTube livestream link. Details: caltech.edu/campus-life-ev…

Applications are open for Spring/Summer 2024 Lunar Trailblazer Internships! PasadenaCityCollege and Caltech students interested in mission operations and science communication are encouraged to apply by February 5th. forms.gle/E7kc7WjvyU66Ky…

This week on Planetary Radio we explore Japan's successful soft landing on the Moon, how eclipses affect spacecraft near the Earth and Moon, and insights from NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission with Planetary Society President Bethany Ehlmann. 🎙️ planetary.org/planetary-radi…

u guys ever just think about how these lads dominated life on our planet for 2 billion years

My first feature of 2024 is live! Really enjoyed learning more about the lunar rocks right in my backyard!

Last week, thank you to all the folks who came to my Caltech #WatsonLecture to hear about our Lunar Trailblazer mission and especially the Caltech IPAC, PasadenaCityCollege, and Ehlmann Research Group, Caltech members who ran outreach activities! Talk is here for your viewing youtu.be/XGNNxd_o98s

Best wishes to my colleagues at Intuitive Machines on their IM-1 lander's journey to the Moon! Lunar Trailblazer rides with IM-2 so looking forward to more launches to come too! 🌚🚀

Annie Easley, born #OTD in 1933, began her 34-year career at NASA in 1955, working as a human computer. When human computers were replaced by machines, she evolved too, becoming a computer programmer. go.nasa.gov/3Ulw2sF

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Former intern Sebastian Cevallos recalls how reformatting 100,000 lines of spacecraft coding commands prepared him for a career in software development. He loved working on Trailblazer's Command Telemetry Dictionary and is our #TrailblazerOfTheWeek! trailblazer.caltech.edu/news/sebastian…

Speaking of blazing trails... #LunarTrailblazer will map the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the Moon's surface, giving future astronauts insight into where water might be found and extracted as a resource. More on this upcoming mission: jpl.nasa.gov/missions/lunar…

Please join me and Christa P. Whitney for our LA premiere of Ver Vet Blaybn? (Who Will Remain?) this Thursday at AMC The Grove 14, hosted by Holocaust Museum LA Holocaust Museum LA. She and I will be doing a Q&A post-screening! Tickets: holocaustmuseumla.org/event-details/…

SO exciting to see Lunar Trailblazer solar array deployment!

Proud to finally share my animation explaining how Lunar Trailblazer's spectrometer will detect water on the #Moon!

🚀🌙 NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission is ready to live up to its name! The small satellite is riding along on Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 launch, part of NASA’s CLPS initiative, which is slated to launch no earlier than Feb. 26. 🧵Check out this thread to learn more about the mission!

Launch window for Lunar Trailblazer opens today! 🚀🌚 Immensely proud of our team and looking forward to getting underway to map water on the Moon. Launching along with IM-2/SpaceX, separating ~48min after launch. NASA coverage starts 6:30pm ET #PI_daily

Tonight, we launch, to the moon! caltech.edu/about/news/nas…