Planetary
Wandererings

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...

Science Definition Team work room, 2013. Photo by S. Milkovich In February 2013, I had a new routine: upon arrival at JPL each morning,...

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...

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...

In 2009, I became the HiRISE investigation scientist for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a role I’ve described in a few other places. I’ve...

I forgot to mention here that I was interviewed over at the Planetary Society –  Interview With A Mars Scientist! #HiRISE #interview...

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...

There is a room at JPL that is currently covered in printouts – covering the walls and taped to the windows, stacked on the conference...

I’ve got a post up at The Space Place’s Mission Chronicles on my work for the Curiosity Rover. #Curiosity #mars #MSL

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...

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...

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....

(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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...