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Kevin M. Gill
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Engineer, data wrangler, and martian photographer at NASA-JPL, Los Angeles. Curiosity Rover ECAM PUL. Saturn native, commutes to Jupiter. USMC vet. Opinions are mine https://apoapsys.com
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I was actually able to get a few shots of last night’s aurora!

I drove up to Castaic (northern Los Angeles County) with the family to find a darker sky. Couldn’t see much but the camera did.
A cloudy sky with a pink glow. A cloudy sky with a pink glow. A cloudy sky with a pink glow. A cloudy sky with a pink glow.
November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4711 drive last week.

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Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Actinolite schist from Acton, CA. Associated with the Pelona-Rand-Orinoco Schist series.

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A rock composed of green needle-like crystal A rock composed of green needle-like crystal A rock composed of green needle-like crystal A rock composed of green needle-like crystal
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Sol 1675 Navcam mosaic from the Mars Perseverance Rover. White balanced color.

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Rocks and sand out to the horizon. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4709 drive last week.

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Rocks, sand, and rover wheel tracks. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Some actinolite, amphibole, and serpentines I found today in Acton, CA.

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Actinolite rock Amphibole of some sort Amphibole Serpentine rock
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I was rockhounding but I found a bone 🦴
A bone among some colorful gravel
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Some chlorite-actinolite-biotite schist I found nearby in the Sierra Pelonas.

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A rock A rock A rock Still just a rock, calm down.
November 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Found a brown widow spider in my garage. After some pictures, it is no longer in my garage….
A gross spider hanging upside down on a crappy web. I’m not kidding, she did a really lousy job building that thing. It was awful, like she was drunk when she made it. Dumb spider. Either way, I introduced her to the bottom of my shoe so she is no longer among the living.
October 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Liam’s wearing my old cammies to school today for Halloween ❤️
A smart handsome, dare I say awesome, boy wearing a US Marines camouflage uniform
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Comet C/2025 R2 Swan on October 24th. This is processed from 14.5 minutes of integration across 28 images in PixInsight and Photoshop.

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A greenish comet coma among many stars
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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New profile pic: Me trying (and probably failing) to look cool in shadow.
A wall of talc and bits of schist. Dry shrubs at the lower left and upper right corners. The shadow of a person, me, is on the wall. The shadow is wearing a booney hat because his stupid bald head burns super fast in the sun. Fun fact about that: When I was really little I was afraid of bald men. Now I am one. They shaved my head when I went to Marine Corps boot camp (I was 19) and it never quite grew back completely.
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Photo I took yesterday of a chalk dudleya(?) succulent that I found in an abandoned quarry.

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A blue/green rosette flowering plant among dry grass, twigs, and rocks.
October 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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While the telescope was doing its thing, I used another camera to look back towards Santa Clarita, California, and the Big Dipper.

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A nighttime city with bright lights and stars above. The asterism Big Dipper is prominent among the stars.
October 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, 48.5 minutes of exposure across 97 images taken from Bear Divide in Los Angeles. This is the first time I’ve processed a comet observation like this so I had to do some quick learning and experimentation. Hopefully I’ll improve on this in the future.

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A comet, tail, and background stars
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Again with the telescope and pretzels :-)
A telescope, a camera on a tripod, a chair and bag of tasty pretzels
October 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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MAHLI and MastCam images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover as a before & after of the new “Valle de la Luna” drill site.

The first two images are using MAHLI on Sol 4690 and are white balanced. The third is MastCam used post-drill on Sol 4693.

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A rock with a circular patch cleared of dust. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill A rock with a circular patch cleared of dust. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill A rock with a hole drilled into it. The hole is surrounded by a small pile of tailings. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Quick processing of the Triangulum Galaxy (Messier 33) from the imaging we did on Saturday night.

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A galaxy among many stars Credit: Kevin M. Gill/Liam Gill/Andrew Moskal
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A reprojected view of Jupiter centered near the border with the Northern Filamentary Region. This uses image data taken by NASA’s JunoCam during the Perijove 26 flyby in April 2020. I created a simulated terrain relief to provide a sense of vertical scale to the cloudtops.

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October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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So many stars and it’s still twilight.

Andromeda isn’t my target tonight, I’ll be chasing the Triangulum Galaxy
October 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Telescope, my boy Liam, and a bag of pretzels :-)
October 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Here’s another one from the United Arab Emirates’ Hope Mars Mission orbiter taken on February 10 2025. This is centered over the northern hemisphere Utopia Planitia, a vast and flat impact basin.

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Check out that small (from our perspective) line in the southern hemisphere leading to a crater. That crater is Gale Crater, a once flooded crater centered with Mount Sharp. That’s the home of NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover, still performing amazing science and making discoveries after all these years. CU/LASP EMM/EXI ITF/Kevin M. Gill
October 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Went hiking last night in an area with plentiful albite-quartz-muscovite schist and some actinolite-albite schist. I took a few small rocks to document them but nothing particularly impressive. All this is from marine trench sediments subducted with the Farallon plate, metamorphosed, and uplifted.
Sunset picture looking southwest through bouquet canyon (Los Angeles County) Interesting foliation on a boulder Outcrop of the schist with neat foliation Some actinolite schist. Someone before me chiseled out any good stuff and left a bit of a mess
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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This is the image I think he started with. Navaneeth went and provided additional processing on top of it.

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October 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Mars on February 9 2025, imaged by the UAE’s Hope orbiter. In focus ate the large volcanos of the Tharsis Region, including Olympus Mons.

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A crescent view of the planet Mars. Olympus Mons is the large volcanos freshly emerging into the morning sunlight. CU/LASP EMM/EXI ITF/Kevin M. Gill
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM