Riding GRAVITY FORCE ONE with KIRBY RUNYON

Happy New Year, fellow IF-ers! We taped a bunch of shows at the end of the year, so we're starting out 2022 with a bang: a brand new WTIF episode every day this week!

DR. KIRBY RUNYON is a planetary geomorphologist and morphodynamicist seeking to understand the evolution of planetary landscapes and the associated near-surface processes through the analysis of remote sensing imagery and laboratory experiments. He is a science team affiliate on the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt and a science team collaborator on the HiRISE (High Resolution Imagaing Science Experiment) camera currently in orbit around Mars. Kirby is passionate about engaging the general public in the passion, beauty, and joy of space exploration and promoting scientific literacy among non-scientists. He lives in Columbia, MD, with his cat, Nixie, named after Nix, a small moon of Pluto.

Read Kirby's Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun, "Why go to space? You might as well ask: Why make music?"

Visit his website: https://kirbydanielrunyon.space

Follow him on all the socials:

Twitter: @nasaman58

Instagram: @kirbydanielrunyon

Facebook: kirby.runyon

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