Andy Tomaswick

@mileswilhelm @fcain 21 as of when I wrote this!

@fcain @AndyTomaswick Excellent! How many flights so far?

NASA is extending Ingenuity's mission. Next up is finding a path toward the river delta for Perseverance - UNIVERSE TODAY universetoday.com/155074/with-21… by @AndyTomaswick

@Toshogu @universetoday Sorry that should have said reorganizing!

NASA is reorganization its human space flight directorate - Universe Today universetoday.com/152705/nasas-h… by @AndyTomaswick

@decaelus @BoiseState @BroncoPhysics @NASAPersevere You're welcome Dr. Jackson! Keep up the great work!

@DonStockbauer @universetoday Maybe! Don't know until you try!

A new biomining experiment on the ISS extracted vanadium from basalt - Universe Today universetoday.com/152594/astrona… by @AndyTomaswick

@GuppyShark @fcain Maybe that's what socks are made out of.

@fcain @AndyTomaswick Pretty sure washing machines contain a lot of dark matter

Looking for dark matter in the unlikeliest of places - under the ice at the South Pole - Universe Today universetoday.com/151994/searchi… by @AndyTomaswick

@rrguedes @universetoday Those are the best kind! He did some great work.

@universetoday @AndyTomaswick Clever graduate student!

The weather on the night side of Venus is...weird - Universe Today universetoday.com/151951/observi… by @AndyTomaswick

@jsjogre11433 @fcain That's the trick - he has us writers to tweet for him 🙂. Hope he's enjoying his vacation though!

@fcain @AndyTomaswick Shouldn't you be on vacation Fraser? 😉

Solar sailing isn't just for other star systems - it could be useful in our own too - Universe Today universetoday.com/151936/forget-… by @AndyTomaswick

@juhariis @universetoday Agreed - wasn't my intention to indicate any specific precedent or importance - a lot of times I change the order of lists like that to make it clear that it wasn't just copied from the original article. My apologies!

@universetoday @AndyTomaswick Somehow I think your story reverses the order of the points made by NASA. Most important (first) are greenhouse gases, the increase has impact on clouds etc.. then there is natural variability on top (pdo)..

Earth now stores twice as much energy annually as it did 15 years ago - Universe Today universetoday.com/151792/the-ear… by @AndyTomaswick

@CriticalCripple @fcain Potentially - it didn't seem like the model they defined in this paper went that far, but it would seem to be a logical conclusion

The Sun's magnetic field might have helped form the iron core of the rocky planets - Universe Today universetoday.com/151804/does-me… by @AndyTomaswick

@CodysLab @fcain Hi Cody! Not quite - the curve isn't linear so it probably won't be exactly twice as much in another 15 years. But our own actions will have a big impact on that, so it's hard to tell.

@fcain @AndyTomaswick Does this mean that in 15 years it will be storing about twice as much as now?

Earth now stores twice as much energy annually as it did 15 years ago - Universe Today universetoday.com/151792/the-ear… by @AndyTomaswick

@Tom_Ruen @fcain True - the details of the actual numbers are in the paper which is linked in the article if you're interested.

@fcain @AndyTomaswick A tricky claim. If it was storing zero net energy 15 years ago, and one joule of net energy annually now, we could accurately but ridiculously claim it is storing infinitely more net energy annually.

@KalebAxon @universetoday Haha, sorry, bad phrasing on my part. 😅

New NASA CLPS missions will land on and measure the interior of the far side of the moon - Universe Today universetoday.com/151608/nasa-is… by @AndyTomaswick

@sfiscience @ChrisKempes @fcain Thanks for the shout out! I'm glad I didn't completely forget my high school chemistry class!

Solid short explainer article from Universe Today on new #astrobiology research led by SFI's @ChrisKempes — @AndyTomaswick on #stoichiometry & #powerlaws, with supplementary videos on the search for life in space by @fcain:

@Iamgsk_ @universetoday There's four more that aren't out yet for a total of 30!

@universetoday @AndyTomaswick 26!

The first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey have been released and analyzed in 26 different papers - Universe Today universetoday.com/151315/dark-en… by @AndyTomaswick

@fthsglm @universetoday If only game physics worked in real life.

Lockheed Martin and General Motors are teaming up to design an autonomous, electrically powered lunar rover - Universe Today universetoday.com/151311/self-dr… by @AndyTomaswick

@DJSnM @fcain Yep! Nickel and iron specifically in the non-Borisov ones!

@fcain @AndyTomaswick To be clear, actual metals, rather than just stuff that’s not hydrogen and helium.

There's some metal in the atmosphere of comets, including Borisov, even when they're far away from the sun - Universe Today universetoday.com/151257/comets-… by @AndyTomaswick

@lyledal @universetoday Not sure to be honest...the press release didn't mention that unfortunately. Good question though!

Image of a new crater on Mars looks stunning - Universe Today universetoday.com/151214/bright-… by @AndyTomaswick

@RadGfx @fcain Thank the graphic department at APL! There's more on their website which you can find in the article.

@fcain @AndyTomaswick Thanks for all those nifty pictures. 🙋🚀🙋

NASA is assessing a mission that would study the solar system from 1000 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. - Universe Today universetoday.com/151029/nasa-is… by @AndyTomaswick

@rocketeersindia @universetoday Yep! Estimated to take about 15 years fr launch to arrival.

@universetoday @AndyTomaswick This will take very long time. Isn't it?

NASA is assessing a mission that would study the solar system from 1000 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. - Universe Today universetoday.com/151029/nasa-is… by @AndyTomaswick

@SmileSimplify @fcain @AlanStern Not that I saw unfortunately. That would have been awesome though. Let me know if you find one!

@fcain @AlanStern @AndyTomaswick Any chance there’s a time-lapse of the solar panels deployment somewhere?

Lucy has deployed is majestic solar panels for the first time - Universe Today universetoday.com/150861/trojan-… by @AndyTomaswick