Kathleen Mandt, PhD
@mommascientist.bsky.social
Planetary scientist and Yorkie Mom. Exploring the solar system. Opinions are my own.
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Wow! Bluesky is like a whole new world compared to a week ago! Im feeling inspired by the new energy to re-engage with social media for #SharingScience. Let me introduce myself and tell you how I got here. 🧵
Congratulations to Michele!! I first met her when I was a graduate student working on Cassini. She was awe-inspiring then and continues to be now. 🧪🔭🪐
July 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Congratulations to Michele!! I first met her when I was a graduate student working on Cassini. She was awe-inspiring then and continues to be now. 🧪🔭🪐
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Earlier today, a small meteoroid exploded high in the atmosphere over northern Georgia.
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Earlier today, a small meteoroid exploded high in the atmosphere over northern Georgia.
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
Good morning! Last week I had the honor of speaking at the #Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum #NASM for the final talk in their lecture series "Oceans Across the Universe" 🪐🧪🔭
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June 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Good morning! Last week I had the honor of speaking at the #Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum #NASM for the final talk in their lecture series "Oceans Across the Universe" 🪐🧪🔭
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I had the honor to speak at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum about this paper last week. 🧵 coming soon 🧪🪐🔭
🚨🚨New paper alert!! 🚨🚨🧪🔭
Today we published exciting new results from the Rosetta mission! These results have big implications for where the comet formed and for whether comets could have supplied water to Earth. #PlanetaryScience #Rosetta 🧵1/n
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Today we published exciting new results from the Rosetta mission! These results have big implications for where the comet formed and for whether comets could have supplied water to Earth. #PlanetaryScience #Rosetta 🧵1/n
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A nearly terrestrial D/H for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Analysis of Rosetta measurements suggests that Jupiter family comets could have delivered much of Earth’s water.
www.science.org
June 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I had the honor to speak at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum about this paper last week. 🧵 coming soon 🧪🪐🔭
#NASA funding boosts the economy across the entire US 🧪🔭🪐
Don't miss our new NASA Science spending and economic impact resource at dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science.html — see space science spending in every state and congressional district and custom reports for each region. A unique resource.
June 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#NASA funding boosts the economy across the entire US 🧪🔭🪐
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Don't miss our new NASA Science spending and economic impact resource at dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science.html — see space science spending in every state and congressional district and custom reports for each region. A unique resource.
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Don't miss our new NASA Science spending and economic impact resource at dashboards.planetary.org/nasa-science.html — see space science spending in every state and congressional district and custom reports for each region. A unique resource.
#NOAA funding is valuable because it predicts #SpaceWeather events that could threaten satellites and power grids. 🧪🪐🔭
NOAA issues a prediction for a severe geomagnetic storm for Monday that could result in aurora being seen as low as Alabama and northern California.
May 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#NOAA funding is valuable because it predicts #SpaceWeather events that could threaten satellites and power grids. 🧪🪐🔭
#NASA and #NSF fund research into multiple aspects of these types of events, including lifesaving work that predicts their occurrence 🧪🔭🪐
This footage of a rock and ice #landslide from the Birch Glacier in Switzerland is spectacular. There seems to be a lake forming behind the landslide fill in the valley floor, so the sequence of events may not be over. #Geomorphology is exciting. #geology #geography ⚒️ #geoscience
Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...
Properly staggering! 😮😱
Properly staggering! 😮😱
May 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Did you know that #NASA has a program called #PlanetaryProtection? This program not only protects Earth from #asteroid and #comet impacts but also helps us to understand how the solar system formed based on where all these small bodies ended up 🧪🪐🔭
Are Potentially Hazardous Asteroids behind #Venus?
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
May 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Did you know that #NASA has a program called #PlanetaryProtection? This program not only protects Earth from #asteroid and #comet impacts but also helps us to understand how the solar system formed based on where all these small bodies ended up 🧪🪐🔭
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Are Potentially Hazardous Asteroids behind #Venus?
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
May 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Are Potentially Hazardous Asteroids behind #Venus?
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
#NASA funds research that no other agency can do. We work at the crossroads of #Earth and #Planetary science to search for life in the universe #Astrobiology 🧪🔭🪐
"An Arctic analogue for the future exploration of possible biosignatures on Enceladus" #astrobiology #planetaryscience 🔭🧪 @europlanetmedia.bsky.social
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An Arctic analogue for the future exploration of possible biosignatures on Enceladus
Methane-rich emissions to the seafloor along the Arctic mid-oceanic ridge hold strong astrobiological significance, as they may represent analogues of…
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May 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#NASA funds research that no other agency can do. We work at the crossroads of #Earth and #Planetary science to search for life in the universe #Astrobiology 🧪🔭🪐
The National Science Foundation #NSF funds research that enriches and even saves lives #ScienceMatters 🧪🔭🪐
Thank you to the US National Science Foundation for funding such an important project!
May 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The National Science Foundation #NSF funds research that enriches and even saves lives #ScienceMatters 🧪🔭🪐
@berndporr.me.uk Hi Bernd. James Heathers suggested I contact you. Would you be willing to give me a follow so I can message you?
May 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
@berndporr.me.uk Hi Bernd. James Heathers suggested I contact you. Would you be willing to give me a follow so I can message you?
I’m so excited to see Louise take on this leadership role! I had a wonderful time working for her as part of the #Trident proposal for a mission to #Neptune’s moon #Triton. #NASA 🧪🪐🔭 #PlanetaryScience
News from Space Science Week at the National Academies: Louise Prockter is starting as acting NASA’s acting Planetary Science Directorate director next week (April 7th) for a 1 year term!
March 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m so excited to see Louise take on this leadership role! I had a wonderful time working for her as part of the #Trident proposal for a mission to #Neptune’s moon #Triton. #NASA 🧪🪐🔭 #PlanetaryScience
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Nasa rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars
Nasa rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars
Presence of long-chain alkanes in rock raises new questions about possible existence of life billions of years ago
Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic compounds ever seen on Mars, raising tantalising questions about whether life emerged on the red planet billions of years ago.
The compounds were detected in a 3.7bn-year-old rock sample collected in Yellowknife Bay, an ancient Martian lakebed that harboured all the necessary ingredients for life in the planet’s warmer, wetter past. Continue reading...
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March 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Nasa rover discovers largest organic compounds yet found on Mars
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Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
The jury’s out on whether the US is still at the top of global science. Proposed cuts to major agencies could mean completely ceding that title.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US technological competitiveness
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Nature had the conditions to "cook up" the chemical precursor ingredients for life before Earth formed, according to studies published by the sample analysis team of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which is led by LPL's Regents Professor Dante Lauretta. news.arizona.edu/news/asteroi...
Asteroid Bennu comes from a long-lost salty world with ingredients for life | University of Arizona News
Two research publications by the OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team suggest that conditions for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar system.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Nature had the conditions to "cook up" the chemical precursor ingredients for life before Earth formed, according to studies published by the sample analysis team of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which is led by LPL's Regents Professor Dante Lauretta. news.arizona.edu/news/asteroi...
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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2 close perihelions down, 4 more to go on our way to Apophis: blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-apex/...
NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Survives 2nd Perihelion Pass – OSIRIS-APEX
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January 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
2 close perihelions down, 4 more to go on our way to Apophis: blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-apex/...
This is what our neighbor’s dog Sammie does every time he sees #BeauTheYorkie. I didn’t catch it here, but he has the best side eye for energetic young puppies. #DogsOfBlusky
January 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This is what our neighbor’s dog Sammie does every time he sees #BeauTheYorkie. I didn’t catch it here, but he has the best side eye for energetic young puppies. #DogsOfBlusky
The fires in LA are having a big impact on the #NASA community. I'm starting to hear that several colleagues at #JPL have lost their homes. I'm so sorry for what you are going through and I hope that you and your families (including pets) are able to stay safe. 🔭🪐🧪
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab closed due to raging LA fires
"No fire damage so far (some wind damage) but it is very close to the lab. Hundreds of JPLers have been evacuated from their homes & many have lost homes."
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January 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The fires in LA are having a big impact on the #NASA community. I'm starting to hear that several colleagues at #JPL have lost their homes. I'm so sorry for what you are going through and I hope that you and your families (including pets) are able to stay safe. 🔭🪐🧪
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This is so exciting! Wendy Freedman has done some of the most groundbreaking work with the #Hubble Space Telescope. Her work is the first topic I reviewed for a class in #GradSchool. 🧪🪐🔭🛰️
Great news today! Wendy #Freedman has received the National Medal of Science at the White House. Cordial congrats! I highly appreciate the work she has done to advance our understanding of late-universe #cosmology & #astrophysics.
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Wendy Freedman awarded National Medal of Science
UChicago cosmologist honored for pioneering research on Hubble constant
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January 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
This is so exciting! Wendy Freedman has done some of the most groundbreaking work with the #Hubble Space Telescope. Her work is the first topic I reviewed for a class in #GradSchool. 🧪🪐🔭🛰️
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Contributed Jupiter Family Comets to deliver Earth's water? The answer could be positive from a new #ESA Rosetta data analysis made by @mommascientist.bsky.social team.
You can get more details in my @es.theconversation.com outreach article:
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#PlanetaryScience
You can get more details in my @es.theconversation.com outreach article:
theconversation.com/contribuyero...
#PlanetaryScience
¿Contribuyeron los cometas de la familia de Júpiter a traer el agua a la Tierra?
Un nuevo análisis de los datos de la misión Rosetta, que estudió de cerca al cometa 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, aporta nuevas pistas sobre el origen del agua terrestre.
theconversation.com
January 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Contributed Jupiter Family Comets to deliver Earth's water? The answer could be positive from a new #ESA Rosetta data analysis made by @mommascientist.bsky.social team.
You can get more details in my @es.theconversation.com outreach article:
theconversation.com/contribuyero...
#PlanetaryScience
You can get more details in my @es.theconversation.com outreach article:
theconversation.com/contribuyero...
#PlanetaryScience
#BeauTheYorkie is having a wonderful time over the Holidays with his “nephew” (my son’s puppy) Kayce. He’s taught Kayce about “Dog TV” and now they both love watching the world through the front window.
December 29, 2024 at 10:24 PM
#BeauTheYorkie is having a wonderful time over the Holidays with his “nephew” (my son’s puppy) Kayce. He’s taught Kayce about “Dog TV” and now they both love watching the world through the front window.