Robin Wordsworth
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Robin Wordsworth
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Physicist/planetary scientist/astrobiologist based at Harvard. Soccer dad in training. Social media native since 2024.
If you could hear in the infrared, what would CO2 sound like? We calculated this recently for a Gen Ed course, and the result is a little eerie.

Results were generated by mapping IR frequency in inverse cm to sound frequency in Hz.
July 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What does it take to turn Earth into a Snowball? Formation of a volcanic plateau about the size of India at the equator, according to our new study led by Charlotte Minsky:

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🔭 🧪
June 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Proposed NASA cuts in context, courtesy of the Planetary Society #astronomy #science
May 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Sub-Neptunes shrink and oxidize as they cross the radius valley and become rocky planets, in a new paper led by Collin Cherubim

arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05055
#astronomy #science
April 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Our new paper led by Jake Seeley on clouds and convection in H2-dominated atmospheres is out! Technical conclusion: Things get weird when nitrogen is no longer the background gas 🧪🔭

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06648
January 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just finished reading Buhler 2024, a creative new idea to explain how a sea the size of the Mediterranean once formed on Mars because the atmosphere collapsed.

Nice use of cartoons too

#planetaryscience #Mars @bot.astronomy.blue signup

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
December 8, 2024 at 8:48 PM