Doug Ellison
@dougellison.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Mars Rover Crew Chief. Opinions and views expressed are my own. Not a NASA account. Contains strong language. He/Him
After the first inspired amazing folks like @amyraehill.bsky.social to make THIS... amyraehill.com/bowlsandplat... ....well....we just got to keep doing them, right? And yes - that bowl lives on my desk at work now.
Bowls and Plates — Amy Rae Hill
amyraehill.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
After the first inspired amazing folks like @amyraehill.bsky.social to make THIS... amyraehill.com/bowlsandplat... ....well....we just got to keep doing them, right? And yes - that bowl lives on my desk at work now.
And if you say "well - let's split the difference for the green" you get this. If you start with the calibrated data and give it a little more hair and makeup ....well...you end up with our third bi-color postcard.
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
And if you say "well - let's split the difference for the green" you get this. If you start with the calibrated data and give it a little more hair and makeup ....well...you end up with our third bi-color postcard.
If you take the afternoon one and call it red, the morning one and call it blue.....you get something a little like this...
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you take the afternoon one and call it red, the morning one and call it blue.....you get something a little like this...
The raw images are here : mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimed... : and if you stitch the two panoramas...you get something a bit like this -
December 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The raw images are here : mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimed... : and if you stitch the two panoramas...you get something a bit like this -
Kudos to our project scientist who helps advocate for these every ~year when I think the view might work and we've got a little bit of energy and time spare in a plan. Doing the science on the day to day is important. Taking a moment now and again to do something just for art is important as well.
From NASA –
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Kudos to our project scientist who helps advocate for these every ~year when I think the view might work and we've got a little bit of energy and time spare in a plan. Doing the science on the day to day is important. Taking a moment now and again to do something just for art is important as well.
You mean the ‘wrong’ room. I see how it is. 😉
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
You mean the ‘wrong’ room. I see how it is. 😉
Pacific local time :). But the smaller TV on the top right corner of the far wall has rover Mars Time.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Pacific local time :). But the smaller TV on the top right corner of the far wall has rover Mars Time.
It’s more accurate than you think - I bought that clock on Amazon 😂 (screenshot from youtu.be/eH6W39iE5bs )
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s more accurate than you think - I bought that clock on Amazon 😂 (screenshot from youtu.be/eH6W39iE5bs )
Reposted by Doug Ellison
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
How we found them ( and their Siamese looking sister now adopted by a colleague ) in our neighbors yard in June.
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
How we found them ( and their Siamese looking sister now adopted by a colleague ) in our neighbors yard in June.
This is Dusty - and two of her kids Safiya and Bella. We brought them all in (plus one more kitten) as strays when the kittens were 4 weeks old about 6 months ago. We have successfully failed to divest ourselves of the kittens.
November 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This is Dusty - and two of her kids Safiya and Bella. We brought them all in (plus one more kitten) as strays when the kittens were 4 weeks old about 6 months ago. We have successfully failed to divest ourselves of the kittens.
I met a surgeon in the 90s called ''John Alexander Williams'....but everyone called him JAWs.
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I met a surgeon in the 90s called ''John Alexander Williams'....but everyone called him JAWs.
I once had to address someone who was both a military general and a knight of the British empire….. “General Sir Michael”. I’m considering adopting it myself.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I once had to address someone who was both a military general and a knight of the British empire….. “General Sir Michael”. I’m considering adopting it myself.
The last time I heard of an animal breaking into a zoo, it was a mountain line that broke into the LA zoo to snack on a koala bear
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The last time I heard of an animal breaking into a zoo, it was a mountain line that broke into the LA zoo to snack on a koala bear
We have more to do. More things to discover. More art to inspire. So much more to do. I hope I get to continue doing it for many years to come, and I'm giving it everything I've got. Those who got us here but don't get to be a part of it any more deserve nothing less. For them, we persevere.
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We have more to do. More things to discover. More art to inspire. So much more to do. I hope I get to continue doing it for many years to come, and I'm giving it everything I've got. Those who got us here but don't get to be a part of it any more deserve nothing less. For them, we persevere.
On Tuesday I had to wait half a day to get an email to tell me if I was lucky, or unlucky. I got lucky. Most of my MSL family got lucky. Some were not, and my heart breaks for them. But those of us still fortunate enough to call this project home will keep on keeping on.
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
On Tuesday I had to wait half a day to get an email to tell me if I was lucky, or unlucky. I got lucky. Most of my MSL family got lucky. Some were not, and my heart breaks for them. But those of us still fortunate enough to call this project home will keep on keeping on.
Everything else was replaceable. Even if it got broken by some other person packing my stuff into boxes....it was all replaceable. But the bowl isn't. It's unique. It's one of one. It's a little piece of art inspired by the science we do and the new landscapes we seek with our rover.
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Everything else was replaceable. Even if it got broken by some other person packing my stuff into boxes....it was all replaceable. But the bowl isn't. It's unique. It's one of one. It's a little piece of art inspired by the science we do and the new landscapes we seek with our rover.
On Monday I braced for this most recent round of JPL layoffs by looking around my office for what I cared about most to take it home in case I never got to return. I grabbed just one thing - the beautiful bowl by @amyraehill.bsky.social inspired by the false color postcard I took with Curiosity.
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM
On Monday I braced for this most recent round of JPL layoffs by looking around my office for what I cared about most to take it home in case I never got to return. I grabbed just one thing - the beautiful bowl by @amyraehill.bsky.social inspired by the false color postcard I took with Curiosity.
We are all so incredibly tired. The cuts keep coming, the damage to our teams keeps compounding, yet we somehow keep the missions going. Ashley, Abby and I were all on shift together on MSL today. I hope it wasn’t for the last time.
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
We are all so incredibly tired. The cuts keep coming, the damage to our teams keeps compounding, yet we somehow keep the missions going. Ashley, Abby and I were all on shift together on MSL today. I hope it wasn’t for the last time.
It still exists. Its ‘modernization’ has made it unusable. It’s criminal what has been done to content like this. :(. I still can’t get over the older mission websites just wiped out of existence.
October 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It still exists. Its ‘modernization’ has made it unusable. It’s criminal what has been done to content like this. :(. I still can’t get over the older mission websites just wiped out of existence.
It was the last functional web presence of the agency - I’m gutted :(
October 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It was the last functional web presence of the agency - I’m gutted :(
Reposted by Doug Ellison
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
I think we can all agree that the primary reason she made it is her time as an MER ECAM PUL ;). I'M SO HAPPY FOR HER :D
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September 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I think we can all agree that the primary reason she made it is her time as an MER ECAM PUL ;). I'M SO HAPPY FOR HER :D
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Winter is giving way to Spring in Gale Crater. The atmosphere is waking up from its chilly quiescent slumber.
#NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity
Sol 4662 2025-09-17: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
Sol 4662 2025-09-17: Right Navigation Camera
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Winter is giving way to Spring in Gale Crater. The atmosphere is waking up from its chilly quiescent slumber.
That particular hike is SO GOOD. I’ve done it before sunrise a couple of times :)
September 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
That particular hike is SO GOOD. I’ve done it before sunrise a couple of times :)