What thermal inertia actually means (and what it doesn't)
March 2026 · 8 min read
Thermal inertia gets thrown around as if it were a single rock property. It isn't — it's a convolution of grain size, packing, and induration, all baked into one number. A short walk through what the diurnal temperature curve really tells you.
LPSC 2026: five posters worth your time
February 2026 · 12 min read
Notes from the Mars ice and thermophysics sessions, with full citations and the ideas I'm bringing back to my own work.
Teaching planetary science with real PDS data
November 2025 · 6 min read
Designing a one-week classroom module where high schoolers actually open MCS profiles. The hardest part wasn't the science — it was the file formats.
Why I keep coming back to the Viking mosaic
August 2025 · 4 min read
A 1980 dataset still teaches us things HiRISE can't. A short love letter to global context.
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