Alex Innanen

@transmartian.bsky.social

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knitter, gardener, planetary PhD candidate Head in the (martian) clouds they/them 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 acinnanen.ca/

Two pink cherry blossoms in a small beaker on a desk
a photo of the crescent moon behind pink clouds in a pale blue sky
A gif showing several red, green and blue laser beams criss-crossing while particles drift through causing them to sparkle
A photo of me holding two timbits stuck to each other
A 22 degree halo going about three quarters of the way around the sun against milky white clouds. The sun is covered in part by a streetlight
A video looking towards a building with lots of snow being lofted and swirled by the wind
A video looking over a snowy field towards buildings with lots of snow being lofted by the wind
A photo looking over city lights. The sky is a pretty gradient from orange to teal-y blue, and there's a thin crescent moon with a little bit of earthshine.
A photo of a snow leopard looking into the distance
A photograph of two hand drawn postcards on a corkboard. The first is JUICE with Europa and Jupiter drawn in marker. The second is some light clouds above a cliffface on Mars with the Remote Sensing Mast of Curiosity in the foreground, drawn in pencil crayon.
A photo of some little yellow flowers covered in snow
A photo of an oak tree with entirely green leaves against a backdrop of a pale blue sky
A cardboard rendition of the Canadian Lunar Rover with duct tape solar panels and paper cameras. It has a name tag hanging on it that says 'Hello my name is' and then a big 'classified' stamp.
A photo of a very sad harvest of small potatoes covered in soil in a plastic lid of some sort
A photo of the moon
A silent video of a TTC line 6 LRT passing at an intersection. It has signs on the side that say "Be alert!", "À savoir!" and "Be aware!"
A screenshot of a tumblr post by peacozy that reads "whenever i see the moon its like ok i want sox blurry pictures of that on my phone so bad"
An A0 size poster titled "Examining Cloud Opacity and Morphology with MSL and TGO/CaSSIS". The poster is hung on a board labeled L32.
A photo of a faint red moon above some bright buildings in Helsinki
A photo of the pre-dawn sky with two bright planets (Venus, lower and brighter, and Jupiter) above two cranes.
A photograph of a groundhog standing upright on its hind legs with its front paws held under its chin
A time-lapse video of the sun setting
A photo of me (in a bright red jacket) playing with a methane spectrometer (not pictured) against the stunning backdrop of the Wolf Diapir on Umingmat Nunaat, Nunavut. In the distance are mountains and stormy clouds. The foreground is taken up by a large gypsum cone.
A very haphazard clay rover. Despite being made by a 29 year old it has the appearance of being made by a motivated child.
21 images of the same tree. The tree starts off bare and gradually gos leaves
A group of cherry blossoms in the crook of a tree
A pigeon perched on a sign in Wilson Station. There is a large green P below the pigeon.
The title slide of a presentation titled "Examining the Temporal Variation of Methane Plumes at a Martian Analogue Site in the Canadian Arctic"
A scientific poster titled 'Examining Martian Cloud Properties with TGO/CaSSIS'. The poster has several labeled CaSSIS images of clouds.
A photo of the sky after subset. There are some low, red-pink clouds against a yellow sky which fades into darker blue further up. Venus is visible near the top of the photo.
A yellow elections ontario sign with the word 'vote' in big round letters on it shoved haphazardly into a tall snowbank
An intricate snowflake on a black glove
A video looking across grass dusted with snow showing a tiny little bit of snow being puffed into the air by the wind.
A photo of a crescent moon and Venus seen through tree branches. There are clouds in the sky and the silhouettes of cedar trees in the foreground.
An image of a dome of greyscale clouds with terrain around the base.
Four phase functions marked Mars Year 34 through 37. Yellow lines represent morning data and blue lines represent afternoon. For Mars years 35 through 37, the morning and afternoon lines overlap but for Mars year 34 they diverge at the beginning of the curve.
A photo of a yellow round cake with a hole in the middle dusted with icing sugar. It's photographed outside against a backdrop of a snowy spruce tree.
Two fairly sad looking crocus blooms amongst dead leaves
A digital drawing of the planet Mars with a firework coming off it
A photo taken from above of a concrete wall and metal chairs and trees hanging over. There are two jack-o-lanterns sitting on the wall and one on a chair.
Several pigeons many of whom have their feathers fluffed up sitting on a Toronto Transit Commission sign outside Bay Station
A black fox with a white tipped tail crossing a cobblestone path
A photo of green streaks of the aurora behind the silhouette of cattails
A photo of the sky fading from orange at the bottom through yellow into blue
A photo of the full moon with the top in shadow
A cirrus cloud that covers much of the sky. It's got a very distinct curved edge.
A photo of a digital screen on a line one TTC subway train which says only 'inconvenience.'
A rainbow arcing all the way across a cloudy sky above a plaza parking lot (with a very large shoppers drug mart storefront)
A large yellow summer squash
A screenshot of an email which reads: "Due to your involvement in the field and the research you published in your paper, "Possible Atmospheric Water Vapor Contribution from Martian Swiss Cheese Terrain," IntechOpen invites you to contribute a chapter to "Recent Trends on Cheese As Functional Food With Great Nutritive and Health Benefits," an Open Access book edited by Dr. Adham M. Abdou."
A two panel cartoon meme. The first panel shows hands holding a piece of paper with a scatter plot with many colours and shapes of markers. The second panel shows a person holding out the paper. It is captioned "Woah. This is worthless!"
A photo of the total solar eclipse - the fuzzy white light of the corona
Meringues shaped like clouds arranged on a green lid
A photo of the sun. A small blobby sunspot is visible in the upper right side
An edited screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first part reads: "people who celebrate mars specific anniversaries of spacecraft landings are annoying pass it on." The second part reads: "FUCK this post and happy mars birth sol Curiosity!"
A pumpkin carved with an image of the Curiosity rover from the side