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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 3h

Go Phillies! Way to support LA in the quest to have your wild card series go the full 3 games! Also please win tomorrow as well, even though I’m more scared of your pitchers because I don’t want to have to listen to the Tomahawk Chop ever.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 22h

Wanted the Phillies to win just because I’ve hated the Braves since I was a kid thanks to Ted Turner pushing them on us. But White Sox won so that’s good.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 28/09/2026

First day of the new fiscal year should be a holiday.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 24/09/2026

Why do I get tickets for midweek concerts?

Lit up marquee saying Beck live at the Greek Theatre with glowing BF seats behind it.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 23/09/2026

Nicky Fox (the head of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate) showed up in person to JPL’s all hands meeting to let us know that PRIMA had been selected for the first ever Astrophysics Probe mission. It’s not my field, but this is a big deal. Cool new space telescope! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class - NASA

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to

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Dr. Wendy Panero @mineraltoplanet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Want to hear from NSF program directors about the latest at NSF in Earth Sciences? Come hear updates and hear us answer your questions. October 6, 3 pm EDT. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events?f%5B0...

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 20/09/2026

For other runners out there, how do you react to dogs along the route? I go in the road to leave them the max space. Ever since I ran close to a seemingly friendly dog that seemed friendly and then just snapped at me and I jumped just clear enough that it only tore a big hole in my shorts.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 19/09/2026

2026 JPL night at Dodger Stadium for the Dodgers-Giants game. And a very bright Hawaiian shirt.

Selfie with the beautiful wife at the JPL night at the Dodgers. Both wearing very bright JPL and Dodger-themed Hawaiian shirts

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is shocking to hear! Einstein kept a picture of Maxwell on his office wall and admired him more than any other scientist. Every fall I teach a whole course about his work. This is like hearing that Westminster Abbey might be purchased so a new car rental place can built on Newton’s grave.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 17/09/2026

This stuff is cool. The two large craters on Mars (~100m) which were also detected by InSight’s seismometer were amazing. I want to catch these on the Moon. Imagery, lunar impact flash, and seismic detection combined could better define the seismic efficiency factor and the physics of impacts.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 16/09/2026

While giving a talk at the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) meeting today at Purdue University, I decided to do a dramatic reveal of putting on my hat of my (national champion) alma mater at the beginning of the talk.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 15/09/2026

Does it mean something that I have the lucky 13th row all to myself?

An image of the view from my window seat showing no one in any of the other seats. Lots of space to spread out!

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 15/09/2026

This is a great product, and I love the topography of California.

Color relief map of the most varied relief state of the contiguous 48 states, i.e. California. it’s from the USGS, and it’s beautiful with purple-red Sierra and dark green Central Valley and desert valleys.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 15/09/2026

Off to LEAG (the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group). After a flight delay, I should make it to my hotel around 3am! What could be better?

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Andalusite “Chiastolite”, was a very popular stone among 16th-century religious pilgrims traveling through Spain due to its unique appearance. And the stones, although not holy, are certainly mineral miracles. #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋

A wooden bowl with andalusite “chiastolite” stones with cruciform patterns in pinkish white stone with black crosses.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 07/09/2026

I think this perfectly describes one of my usual Spotify daily recommended list.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 07/09/2026

Vote #andalusite. I fight for these polymorphs every year like I did when I made this stupid edit a couple years ago when kyanite was the underdog in a late cup matchup (it lost).

2 year old stupid edit of Russel Crowe with a blue kyanite blade with the andalusite/sillimanite/andalusite phase diagram on his shield on top of a scene from gladiator.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 07/09/2026

For me, it’s usually been about guaranteed ways of predicting natural hazards. Even since I switched to planetary work.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 06/09/2026

9 miles in the rain. September rain is actually perfect running weather. Too bad it almost never happens without weird Pacific hurricane action. Also the Rose Bowl loop which is part of my runs longer than 6 miles or so is a whole lot less crowded when it’s raining.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 04/09/2026

Given how many places I’ve lived, I’m not surprised it didn’t get where I’m from (Indiana). At this point, though, I’ve lived in California about as long as I lived in the Midwest, so I guess it makes some sense. Florida also got a little red patch somehow, but New Jersey didn’t stick.

A map of the US with the brightest red in California, but red extending across to the Great Lakes region. The darkest blues are the Southeast and the Dakotas and the northeast. There’s a little red patch in Florida. The scale goes from Blue “Least like you” to red “Most like you”

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's #anorthite for me today, because of labradorite, iridescent blue and made in part of anorthite. It's beautiful, and I have a more reaching reason as well... www.mindat.org/min-2308.html

Labradorite, deep iridescent blue with a little green sheen and mottled darker parts, looking a bit like islands seen from space.

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Cas✨// Snap @snapcracklepoppies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 3 This one was a tough choice because I love a good dodecahedral cleavage (Sphalerite) and memorizing the ternary feldspar compositional phase diagram in uni was rough, BUT CaAl2Si2O8 is literally in space rock, so it’s got my vote 😉 Team #Anorthite

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Maia 🏳️‍🌈 @maiainmi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Anorthite is found in lunar highlands, and in a comet and meteorites. Gotta vote for the space rock.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 03/09/2026

Vote anorthite because Moon. Always because Moon.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 02/09/2026

I arrange my window Legos from Mars to LEO assets to Apollo project items. How about you?

View out a JPL office window with a growing collection of Lego models including (from left to right) an InSight lander, the ISS, the Discovery Space Shuttle including the Hubble telescope in the payload bay, the Apollo 17 LRV, the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander, and the Saturn V rocket.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 31/08/2026

Do you ever read a mysteriously angry reply on here and then look at their profile and see they really are just angry at everything? I mean, I can look around and see that’s actually not totally irrational, but I still just block, because I can’t handle that energy…

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 29/08/2026

It’s done! Here it is in both driving mode and launch configuration

Lego Apollo 17 LRV configured for driving with all the instrument packages attached.

Lego Apollo 17 LRV with instrument packages removed and in the folded launch configuration.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 28/08/2026

iPhone doesn’t seem able to get a picture that really shows the eclipse.

Picture of an almost total lunar eclipse. You can’t really tell, though.

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Jason Perry @volcanopele.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ontario Lacus is a hydrocarbon lake near the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. Measuring 235 kilometers long by 75 kilometers across, Ontario Lacus is slightly smaller than its terrestrial counterpart, Lake Ontario. Lakes on Titan are named after lakes on Earth that are roughly the same size.

RADAR SAR image of Ontario Lacus. Ontario is a dark, footprint-shaped feature in the middle of the frame. Hills surround Ontario Lacus to the north, marked by bright, rough terrain in this SAR image.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 23/08/2026

Up to about 2/3 of the way through the build with the bulk of the rover built and the front instrument package. Basically just the aft instrument package and various signs to go

Another process picture of the Apollo 17 LRV. This is how it looks after bag 8 of 12.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 22/08/2026

Back to forward progress on the build. Now with seats and wheels!

A developing build of the Lego Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle. It has a full frame and wheels and seats and a little monitor. Don’t you just want to drive it around?

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 20/08/2026

The stickers are here! The stickers are here!

Sticker sheets for a Lego set freshly arrived! They show various Apollo 17 labels and other things for the build.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 19/08/2026

Just saw some great new images of the new crater on the Moon formed a couple weeks ago when a Falcon upper stage crashed in at a low angle. lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1499

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 18/08/2026

Newish plane and it seems to actually have decent and free WiFi (24 Mbps). What a world!

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 15/08/2026

I was just at a comedy show with my daughters at a bar in Chicago, and I think we flipped out the comedian because my daughters look much younger than their actual age and he thought we were there with our young kids.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 12/08/2026

As a geophysicist with an undergraduate music minor who started grad school working on the Earth’s normal modes, this is very cool and right up my alley.

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Mark Panning @markpanning.seismology.space · 11/08/2026

Haven’t posted any of these thoughts lately not because I haven’t been running, but because I’m currently visiting family in the Midwest, and my California adapted body can think of nothing while running around here beyond “oh my god, it’s so humid, I’m going to sweat out my soul.”

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Is this anything? Did somebody beat me to it and do it better?

It's the "Saddam's Hiding Place" meme, with Donald Trump hiding next to a fan and air vent and his entrance hidden by a tablecloth and savory snack mix.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/10/2023

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse  🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse  🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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