Riding With Robots
@ridingrobots.bsky.social
Robotic solar system exploration, night sky photography, exasperating earnestness. My day job is impersonating some of your favorite planets and spacecraft on social media for one of your favorite government agencies. Opinions here are my own.
"More or less agog"
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"More or less agog"
Juno takes close-ups, too
Processed by Gerald Eichstädt
Processed by Gerald Eichstädt
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Juno takes close-ups, too
Processed by Gerald Eichstädt
Processed by Gerald Eichstädt
Started / going
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Started / going
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
A view from my favorite planet
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A view from my favorite planet
The smallest glimpses can mean so much
Jupiter rising in Millcreek Canyon, Utah
Jupiter rising in Millcreek Canyon, Utah
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The smallest glimpses can mean so much
Jupiter rising in Millcreek Canyon, Utah
Jupiter rising in Millcreek Canyon, Utah
Warm light and lavender as a tonic
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Warm light and lavender as a tonic
Frosty dunes in Hooke Crater, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in September.
The area shown is about a kilometer across. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...
The area shown is about a kilometer across. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Frosty dunes in Hooke Crater, as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in September.
The area shown is about a kilometer across. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...
The area shown is about a kilometer across. science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...
VR look at Perseverance's recent location, built by Neville Thompson www.flickr.com/photos/nev-t...
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
VR look at Perseverance's recent location, built by Neville Thompson www.flickr.com/photos/nev-t...
Waiting for tonight's moon
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Waiting for tonight's moon
Book recommendation: Orbital by Samantha Harvey, winner of the Booker Prize. I'm not an expert in human spaceflight, but not only is this novel beautiful, I didn't detect a single factual inaccuracy, which is pretty amazing even among the most earnest texts.
bookshop.org/p/books/orbi...
bookshop.org/p/books/orbi...
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Book recommendation: Orbital by Samantha Harvey, winner of the Booker Prize. I'm not an expert in human spaceflight, but not only is this novel beautiful, I didn't detect a single factual inaccuracy, which is pretty amazing even among the most earnest texts.
bookshop.org/p/books/orbi...
bookshop.org/p/books/orbi...
My interest is planetary exploration, but when people ask what NASA has done since Apollo, I like to mention that it led the construction of a massive international space station and in the past quarter century NOT ONE DAY has passed without an astronaut in space. www.nasa.gov/reference/as...
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
My interest is planetary exploration, but when people ask what NASA has done since Apollo, I like to mention that it led the construction of a massive international space station and in the past quarter century NOT ONE DAY has passed without an astronaut in space. www.nasa.gov/reference/as...
If ghosts aren’t real then explain this.
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If ghosts aren’t real then explain this.
Ah well, you’ll join us someday…
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Ah well, you’ll join us someday…
IMHO, still the reigning Halloween space image, an Arecibo radar view of a dead comet that had shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the Sun and passed by Earth on Halloween Day.
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
IMHO, still the reigning Halloween space image, an Arecibo radar view of a dead comet that had shed its volatiles after numerous passes around the Sun and passed by Earth on Halloween Day.
I appreciate this statement by the mayor. Like a lot of people, still wondering what else we can do.
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I appreciate this statement by the mayor. Like a lot of people, still wondering what else we can do.
The other thing to remember is that every deep-space fuzzy dot in the sky is actually a world of one kind or another. For example, this is a what an active comet looks like up close. This is comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by ESA's Rosetta probe.
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The other thing to remember is that every deep-space fuzzy dot in the sky is actually a world of one kind or another. For example, this is a what an active comet looks like up close. This is comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as seen by ESA's Rosetta probe.
Just a quick-n-dirty single exposure. Unremarkable in every way except that it's MY quick-n-dirty single exposure. Still amazed we can look up and see the solar system in motion. Working on real images; just taking out the swarm of satellites. 🙃
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Just a quick-n-dirty single exposure. Unremarkable in every way except that it's MY quick-n-dirty single exposure. Still amazed we can look up and see the solar system in motion. Working on real images; just taking out the swarm of satellites. 🙃
Multidisciplinary special collection: Io and other Galilean moons of Jupiter as observed by NASA's Juno mission
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
JunoCam image of Io and Europa processed by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
JunoCam image of Io and Europa processed by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Multidisciplinary special collection: Io and other Galilean moons of Jupiter as observed by NASA's Juno mission
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
JunoCam image of Io and Europa processed by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
JunoCam image of Io and Europa processed by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Dunes in Dulovo Crater, seen in August by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The area shown is about two kilometers across.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_089432_1...
www.uahirise.org/ESP_089432_1...
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Dunes in Dulovo Crater, seen in August by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The area shown is about two kilometers across.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_089432_1...
www.uahirise.org/ESP_089432_1...
Airglow to the north
Near Alturas Lake, Idaho
Near Alturas Lake, Idaho
October 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Airglow to the north
Near Alturas Lake, Idaho
Near Alturas Lake, Idaho
May your travels this weekend take you somewhere amazing.
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
May your travels this weekend take you somewhere amazing.