Kevin Peter Hand
@Alienoceans
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Scientist. Vermonter. Lover of snow and ice-covered oceans. Opinions expressed are my own.
Highland Park, Los Angeles
Joined December 2012
Well, here it is folks. After many, many years of hard work my book it finally out! Can’t believe the timing, and there are obviously much bigger things you need to worry about right now, but if you want to dive into some aliens oceans, here you go!
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Incredibly sad news. Don was such an amazing human being, beyond his pioneering achievements in exploration.
Captain Don Walsh, USN, passed away peacefully at his home in Oregon yesterday. He bravely piloted the first craft to the bottom of the Ocean with his colleague Jacques Piccard. An extraordinary explorer, oceanographer, and human being. I'm so honored I could call him my friend.
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RT @VictorVescovo: Captain Don Walsh, USN, passed away peacefully at his home in Oregon yesterday. He bravely piloted the first craft to th…
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RT @JHUAPL: [1/3] Why Saturn's moon Titan is perfect for #DragonflyMission 🧵⬇️ "Titan is one of the most interesting moons in the solar s…
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RT @LaurieofMars: Great "megathread" on what to expect before and after launch of our #HeavyMetalMission from our fabulous @MissionToPsyche…
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RT @Jordan2Mars: Yesterday was “Launch Minus One Year” for the amazing @EuropaClipper team. It’s a professional and personal honor to lead…
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RT @NASASolarSystem: Asteroids are the building blocks of our solar system, and this asteroid contains the building blocks of life. Our ini…
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RT @NASASolarSystem: Today's goal is to transfer the capsule from the range to a temporary clean room here at UTTR and put the sample on a…
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Amazing! Can’t wait to see pics of the sample. Congrats to the whole team!
After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.
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Excited to share our work using JWST to observe Europa. Our paper came out today. Will share some pics of experiments I did to compare lab/telescope data at some point. The spectra were/are beautiful.
On the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa, Webb has discovered carbon dioxide that likely originated in the liquid water ocean below. Understanding the chemistry of this ocean could help determine if it is a good place for life as we know it:
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RT @minwadhwa: As we excitedly count down the days to the return of samples from asteroid Bennu (Go OREx!), here are my thoughts about the…
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@masahiro_ono Thank so much for the kind words @masahiro_ono . Thrilled that you enjoyed the science heavy parts as well as the more speculative and imaginative parts.
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RT @Astrolab_Space: Curious about the next frontier in space exploration? Hear directly from our founder, Jaret Matthews, as he discusses A…
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Check out JPL engineer extraordinaire @YazzieSays in this @PBS series, coming out next month:
I am honored to be part of an upcoming project with @PBS, the 2nd season of “Native America” premiering 10/24/23! Today, I was reunited with the team for a screening & panel event hosted at @TheAutry. Screening was incredible, & the series is going to be beautiful!
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RT @ltelkins: Hey the paperback edition of my book, *A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman,* hit the shelves today! And it's on sale…
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Looking for some nice bedtime reading? Might I suggest a report on ways to search for technosignatures from alien civilizations?
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