Kevin Peter Hand

Scientist. Vermonter. Lover of snow and ice-covered oceans. Opinions expressed are my own.

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

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!

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

How much do you think?

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

Incredibly sad news. Don was such an amazing human being, beyond his pioneering achievements in exploration.

[Victor Vescovo @VictorVescovo]

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.

[Victor Vescovo @VictorVescovo]

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.

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

[1/3] Why Saturn's moon Titan is perfect for #DragonflyMission 🧵⬇️

"Titan is one of the most interesting moons in the solar system because it's the only one that has a thick atmosphere." - #JHUAPL's Shannon MacKenzie, deputy project scientist, Dragonfly

@NASASolarSystem

[Paul Rincon @rincon_p]

Here it is: the first close-up image of the sample of particles delivered to Earth from the asteroid Bennu by the #NASA #OSIRISRex mission.

[Jordan Evans @Jordan2Mars]

Yesterday was “Launch Minus One Year” for the amazing @EuropaClipper team. It’s a professional and personal honor to lead this team. #DareMightyThingsTogether #BestTeamEver #GoPsyche 🚀🚀🚀

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

Asteroids are the building blocks of our solar system, and this asteroid contains the building blocks of life. Our initial analysis of the 4.5-billion-year-old rocks from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by #OSIRISREx shows evidence of carbon and water.
https://t.co/Wg3Zq4dxBP

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

@jwcutler @bethanyehlmann @NatGeo Thanks @jwcutler!

[NASA Solar System @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 nitrogen purge.

Avoiding contamination is the priority and the team is taking every precaution to protect the sample. https://t.co/eLFTQTCFKx

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

@EvilProfApatite Congrats @EvilProfApatite! Incredibly exciting.

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

Amazing! Can’t wait to see pics of the sample. Congrats to the whole team!

[NASA @NASA]

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.

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

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.

[NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb]

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: https://t.co/tGLrJrVsyl

[Meena Wadhwa @minwadhwa]

As we excitedly count down the days to the return of samples from asteroid Bennu (Go OREx!), here are my thoughts about the importance of sample return missions, @OSIRISREx, and #MarsSampleReturn! https://t.co/7hdedarUho

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

@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.

[Astrolab @Astrolab_Space]

Curious about the next frontier in space exploration? Hear directly from our founder, Jaret Matthews, as he discusses Astrolab's lunar payload delivery services and the path to Lunar exploration. 🌙

You can follow the links below or search for the Space Business Podcast to listen on your preferred platform.

https://t.co/ll8xMhizOo

https://t.co/4UtoMMXBeF

#lunarexploration #moonmission #spacetech #spacefans

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

Check out JPL engineer extraordinaire @YazzieSays in this @PBS series, coming out next month:

[Aaron Yazzie (he/him) @YazzieSays]

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!

[Lindy Elkins-Tanton @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...
https://t.co/uh6IH8bqpf

[Kevin Peter Hand @Alienoceans]

Looking for some nice bedtime reading? Might I suggest a report on ways to search for technosignatures from alien civilizations? https://t.co/2fVGVASZOP

[Pierre Deep Sea @pgirguis]

What a fun video! Thanks @SchmidtOcean !!