Dr. Caitlin Ahrens
@ahrensscience
Planetary scientist, lunar exploration and sustainability policy. Lunar architecture and risk analysis nerd! UMD-CRESST-II Asst. Research Scientist at NASA GSFC. Science Outreach! Ten Outstanding Young Americans 2018. WVU alum. Views are my own.
Guess who got to chat with ISS and space shuttle engineers about cool sensors??? 😎
This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture
Working on some lunar LOLA stuff and listening to the Iron Lung soundtrack. It then occurred to me that the LOLA data looks eerily similar to the X-ray ocean (also a moon!!!) images from Iron Lung game and film #IronLung #markiplier
What’s really cool is that structures like these would probably show up quite bright in the infrared spectrum! Like take a look at Voyager 2’s IR image of Neptune’s thin rings! So pretty!
Hey if I’m gonna have a day full of virtual meetings on Halloween, you better believe I’ll have some fun with it!
Wearing my rainbow donut Saturn socks for my presentation today! 🤩
“That fish was so big! You should have been heron earlier, but I egret to inform you, that I ate the fishy”
We were spacey guest speakers for the Brass Band of Northern Virginia’s “Brass in Space” event! May the Fourth be with you! #StarWarsDay was very fun!
My copy of the @cambridgeup.bsky.social Ganymede book came! Hooray! 🥳
Had a marvelous time volunteering at Death Valley National Park for the Dark Sky Festival with some amazing NASA activities and presentations!
Presented (virtually) on uncertainty of lunar resources at the DMDU Conference! This is a newly funded project that our team is SUPER EXCITED to develop!