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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Guess who got to chat with ISS and space shuttle engineers about cool sensors??? 😎

Excited female scientist wearing space shirt in front of bookcase and work desk

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Happy West Virginia Day! 💙 💛 My home among the hills!

Rocky ledge overlooking green valley below at Seneca Rocks State Park

Green Bank Telescope at the Green Bank Observatory, Pocahontas County, WV

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture

Silly orange tabby laying on top of an unfinished jigsaw puzzle

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Working on some lunar LOLA stuff and listening to the Iron Lung soundtrack. It then occurred to me that the LOLA data looks eerily similar to the X-ray ocean (also a moon!!!) images from Iron Lung game and film #IronLung #markiplier

Black and white dataset of the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter slope data at the Moon showing craters and some geologic features

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is how your email currently finds me 😬

Comical picture of a T-Rex pen gasping for air being smothered by other colorful pens and pencils in an office pencil box.

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

What’s really cool is that structures like these would probably show up quite bright in the infrared spectrum! Like take a look at Voyager 2’s IR image of Neptune’s thin rings! So pretty!

Voyager 2 IR image, 1989. Credit: Voyager 2/NASA

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Hey if I’m gonna have a day full of virtual meetings on Halloween, you better believe I’ll have some fun with it!

Handmade crocheted teal octopus with orange tentacles hat on top of woman wearing headphones.

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Wearing my rainbow donut Saturn socks for my presentation today! 🤩

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

“That fish was so big! You should have been heron earlier, but I egret to inform you, that I ate the fishy”

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We were spacey guest speakers for the Brass Band of Northern Virginia’s “Brass in Space” event! May the Fourth be with you! #StarWarsDay was very fun!

An orchestra of brass instrument musicians in a performance hall in front of a screen of Storm Troopers from Star Wars

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Through all the stress, here’s my latest painting 🎨 😊 No idea if I’ll ever get my works to an art fair, but I’d like to someday! 🤷‍♀️ #ArtVibes #Painting

Acrylic paint on canvas with metal gold accents

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Had a marvelous time volunteering at Death Valley National Park for the Dark Sky Festival with some amazing NASA activities and presentations!

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Dr. Caitlin Ahrens @ahrensscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Presented (virtually) on uncertainty of lunar resources at the DMDU Conference! This is a newly funded project that our team is SUPER EXCITED to develop!

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