Carnival of Space #143 @ Next Big Future

The 143rd edition of the Carnival of Space, a weekly series highlighting the best in the astronomy and space blogosphere, is now online at Next Big Future.  You know the drill.  Some great posts on 3D visualization of Martian dust avalanches based on a shape-from-shading DEM from HiRISE data, bad movie science, umbraphiles, and Russia now funding its nuclear programs.

In other news, LPSC started today.  While I am here in Tucson, I've been able to follow the results that have been presented at the conference using Twitter.  You can too using the hash topic, #LPSC.  Today there have been some great tweets from NASA Night when people from headquarters discussed the new NASA budget, getting most of their questions about the change in focus for the Exploration Directorate.  A few people to follow include: @elakdawalla (blogger from the Planetary Society), @jhjones (who set up the Outer Planets missions display), @aggieastronaut, @DAstronomer, @barbylon, @starstryder, @The_Stargazer, @WomenPlanetSci, @astraea_sophia.

Finally, Callisto is today's (March 2) Wikipedia Featured Article. This makes it the last of the four Galilean satellites to be featured on the popular online encyclopedia.

Link: Carnival of Space #143 [nextbigfuture.com]
Link: LPSC news on Twitter [twitter.com]
Link: Callisto (moon) [en.wikipedia.org]

Accepted Inevitable; Now on Twitter

There are some new web trends that I grab onto with both hands. There are others, like Twitter, that I avoid for the longest time before breaking down. Well, I have finally accepted the inevitable and joined Twitter. You can follow me at my twitter page. What in the world will I post on Twitter? Funny stories I see online. Brief mentions on what I am working on now. The occasional reaction to any Io news that comes out before I have the time to write up a longer blog post here. The occasional non-sense. I am not sure yet. I will need to find some desktop app that will allow me to post quick Twitter posts without needing to remember to get the twitter page open...

So, if you use Twitter, you can now follow me... But please, not too closely.

Link: Jason Perry (volcanopele) on Twitter [twitter.com]