Dr. Paul Filmer

Engineers have repaired an issue affecting telemetry data from @NASAVoyager 1 that was identified earlier this year. While the team continues to investigate the root cause, the spacecraft appears healthy and continues to gather and return science data. go.nasa.gov/3R2vfZH

RT @GLOBEatNight: btw 18-27 Aug, measure night sky brightness w @GLOBEatNight from ur computer, tablet, or smartphone 2 raise public awareness abt light pollution. We’ve reached 12k data points. Let’s reach 20k by the end of 2022! globeatnight.org

@drspacejunk I’m not sure I’m ready to endure the commentary if I have V2 retweet this one.

I've never claimed my sense of humour was sophisticated.

Voyager 2 is a spacecraft that lives always in my heart. In 2012, six years before it passed the heliopause, I interviewed the spacecraft through its Twitter avatar. theconversation.com/an-interview-w… #Voyager45 @NSFVoyager2 @pffli

This diagram, from the 'The Voyager Uranus Travel Guide', shows the different trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. I love the shell-like graphic. #Voyager45 @NASAVoyager

The Earth portrayed on the Golden Records will probably be unrecognisable even 100 years from now. theconversation.com/after-45-years… #Voyager45 @NASAVoyager

The Voyager Golden Records are endlessly fascinating. In the 90 minutes of music, there is 1.24 seconds of Yolngu music from Milingimbi Island in the Northern Territory of Australia. Who were the Aboriginal musicians who are going to the stars? #Voyager45 theconversation.com/beyond-the-mor…

But of course I love Voyager 1 as well - its 45 launch anniversary is on Sept 5 - here @lucidkevinor and I talk about the spacecraft crossing that invisible line between our world and the next theconversation.com/voyager-1-is-l… #Voyager45

This is my long interview with Voyager 2, through the amazing @pffli who continues to represent the spacecraft on Twitter. I think you'll agree that Voyager 2 has a diffident charm that is utterly beguiling. zoharesque.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-gh… #Voyager45

This galaxy is so far away that the expansion of the universe is causing it to recede from us faster than the speed of light. Weirder: it has ALWAYS been receding faster than light. When the photons we are now seeing were first emitted, they were moving directly AWAY from us.

@NASA_ICE Leech = invertebrate; leach = dissolve substrate.

Meltwater from the ice sheets is generally very pure and fine to drink, but when this water flows subglacially, it picks up sediment and leeches chemicals from the rock below. The result can look like very cold chocolate milk!

Earth’s polar regions may be mostly frozen, but we’re still celebrating #WorldWaterDay! Did you know one of the best places to search for water on an ice sheet is beneath the ice? We call this subglacial water.

RT @charliegiattino: Excess mortality @OurWorldInData just updated for this week Model estimates of cumulative excess deaths globally from @TheEconomist (chart: #estimated-excess-mortality-from-the-economist" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ourworldindata.org/excess-mortali…) Details & limitations about estimates here: economist.com/graphic-detail…

@AlexKp87 @NSFVoyager2 I’d love to see this work up close to see all the details. Someone will eventually get this as a tattoo. That will take a while…

How did Carl Sagan inspire you?

@carolynporco @_TheSeaning Sounds like us funding science done w NASA data. I fought lots of battles after HQPAO would announce “NASA funded scientists found...” and then “...we don’t correct old news” after we protested. This happened so often I’m sure it was deliberate.

@_TheSeaning Ha! You sound like me. Time and time again no credit for Cassini images goes to my CICLOPS group or my imaging team. Infuriating, isn't it?

@drspacejunk Aînés by iself works...

How would I say 'Elders' in French? Les anciens? Google says aînés d'hier and that doesn't sound right.

@esascience @AstroEmz LOVE the Rosetta Stone mug linkage...

Philae left its imprint in billions-of-years-old ice, revealing that the comet’s icy interior is softer than #cappuccino froth or the foam in a bubble bath or on top of waves at the seashore ☕️🛁🌊#RosettaLegacy (photo courtesy @astroemz)

Are you ready for an early #Halloween story? Turn on your pumpkin lanterns, because the ghosts of our spacecraft past have a story to tell… 💀🛰👻🎃🤖☄️🕯 #RosettaLegacy #TrickOrTreat #MysteryStory

RT @NASAWatch: This from @SpaceXStarlink TOS. Yes, people will b arguing abt the Outer Space Treaty but it is interesting 2 see a company thinking ahead 2 providing services 2 people offworld. Or maybe this is a @SpaceX lawyer having a little fun. Or both.

@jansky_girl @NSFVoyager2 @GreenBankObserv Figured you might have spent some time at GBO...I spent time in T.O. and Pasadena, took courses with Chuck Elachi.

A question to my peeps: where have you visited a scale model of the solar system, and what was your best memory/take-away?

@mleary2001 @NSFVoyager2 @NASAJPL Ha! No...the monitors from 1977 were long ago junked! The SPARC Stations were a big upgrade. Think green lettering on a burned in screen...

@NSFVoyager2 @NASAJPL Thanks for the quick reply! The monitors must have been built by the same team that built the spacecraft.

I am currently 17 hrs 20 mins 21 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2020:284:000000:2L)

HT @NewsfromScience: A shiny green beetle is eating its way through N American forests, leaving a wake of dead ash trees. A new analysis predicts ash might not recover. ow.ly/Y8hr30rbpyd I have some of the last living American Ash trees on my property in WV... ;'(