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Erica Nathan

@thaterican

Geophysicist | Planetary Scientist | Brown University '23 | Colgate University '18 Opinions my own

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Woman wearing dark red dress, black cardigan, knit ombre red orange yellow fingerless gloves, and a crocheted witch’s hat with flowing yarn lava and a puffy white cloud.

Woman wearing dark red dress, black cardigan, knit ombre red orange yellow fingerless gloves, and a crocheted witch’s hat with flowing yarn lava and a puffy white cloud.

Not super active on social media these days, but thought my geo friends on here would appreciate my crocheted volcano witch hat 🎃🌋

Happy Halloween!

31.10.2025 21:49 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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NASA Budget Cuts Could End U.S. Exploration of the Outer Solar System The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years

Scientists who study the outer planets are desperate for a new mission, but they rely on nuclear power units, the use of which Trump's budget request proposes abandoning. What are would-be explorers to do? 🧪 🛰️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

14.08.2025 18:39 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Astro News - Mercury: Astro News

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine just published a news article about my Titania paper that came out in PSJ yesterday!
www.mercury-messenger.org/astro-news/#...

19.01.2024 02:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On a more personal note, this is my favorite chapter from my PhD thesis and I’m so glad it's finally published. It was such a joy to be able to bring my outside-of-science interest in photography/image processing to my research. (4/4)

18.01.2024 03:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Our mapping of Titania’s surface reveals a more extensive fracture network, proposed new multi-ring impact basin, and catenae. Our findings suggest the missing large craters in Titania's crater population does not require cryovolcanic resurfacing.
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18.01.2024 03:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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We applied modern image reprocessing techniques to Voyager data to take a less-blurry look at Titania. Here’s a little before and after from our proof of concept for Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, where we have the benefit of more recent images to compare with:
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18.01.2024 03:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Delighted to say that my paper on Titania (Uranus’ largest moon) is now out in PSJ! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

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18.01.2024 03:39 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0