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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

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The latest on Lunar Trailblazer: The ops team at @caltechipac.bsky.social continue to work on reestablishing communications with the small satellite, with ongoing support from NASA's Deep Space Network and ground based observatories: blogs.nasa.gov/trailblazer/...

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On March 1, the Europa Clipper spacecraft will soar past Mars, using that planet’s gravity to shape its trajectory, sending it first back by Earth, then on toward its 2030 rendezvous with Jupiter. Onward and upward! #Europa #EuropaClipper www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

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It has been quite the week. After the Intuitive Machines IM-2 launch on Wednesday, mission operators at @caltechipac.bsky.social received telemetry from NASA's Lunar Trailblazer that things weren't right with its power system. They then had communications issues with the spacecraft.

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Led by Caltech and managed by JPL, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is launching (no earlier than) Wed., Feb. 26, as a rideshare on the Intuitive Machines mission to the Moon, IM-2. Apart from the awesome science Trailblazer will do, its journey is quite interesting, too: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nas...

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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

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Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

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Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."

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More information about how CNEOS assesses the impact probability of newly discovered near-Earth objects and the development of the Sentry system: How we monitor impact hazards: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-n...

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NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL has stood up an information page about asteroid 2024 YR4. The near-Earth object's probability of impacting our planet in 2032 has risen to more than 1% and is now a 3 on the Torino Scale. CNEOS is monitoring: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news210...

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Rain! 🥲

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During the Sol 4432 drive this week, the Mars Curiosity Rover stopped to take updated images of the wheels. This is a MAHLI image of the largest break. flic.kr/p/2qH9LCv

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Dumb ideas yield dumb (and predictable) results 😆

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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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probably my favorite part of doing these pop-sci press pieces is seeing just how many strange things I say off hand make it into the paper without context

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What? According to my calendar, it's Feb. 1. #dryjanuaryfail

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Mars is getting a lot of hate online these days thanks to Musk, and that breaks my heart. I hate that the awe and wonder around space that was once captured by inspiring voices like Carl Sagan has now been so thoroughly corrupted by the likes of space billionaires. 😔

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Remember that "mini-moon" excitement from last year? Well, it's called asteroid 2024 PT5, a 10-meter-wide space rock, and, while it's not REALLY a mini moon of Earth, it could actually be a chunk of Moon rock. Neat research by Lowell Observatory and NASA JPL: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/study-f...

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So many JPLers' lives have been upended by the #LAFires. AT LEAST 150 of our colleagues have lost their homes, and the scale of loss in Altadena will reverberate for years to come. If you can help, here's a resource: The Caltech JPL Relief Fund. giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

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I'm going to be more active here and on Threads when I get back to the US. Just traveling through the UK right now, so here's a jolly golden postbox to reawaken my BlueSky feed for the time being 😊

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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is nearly complete after integration of its Lunar Thermal Mapper. Planned to launch in 2024, the mission is tasked with understanding the nature of water on the Moon’s surface 🧪🌕🛰 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-lunar-trailblazer-gets-final-payload-for-moon-water-hunt

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This could be the first tropical storm to make landfall in SoCal since... 1939 😦 https://www.nytimes.com/article/tropical-storm-hilary-hurricane-california-mexico.html

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This season of @StarTrekOnPPlus #StrangeNewWorlds is ridiculously entertaining. And for reasons I never anticipated 💯

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I asked an Indigenous colleague in Hawai'i where people can donate to and these were his suggestions (1/2): Hawaiʻi People's Fund: https://hawaiipeoplesfund.networkforgood.com/projects/200566-maui-aloha-the-people-s-response-fund ʻĀina Momona: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kokuamaui

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NASA is about to launch its most sophisticated laser communications tech demo yet. The Deep Space Optical Communications (#DSOC) experiment will launch with NASA's Psyche to test broadband comms out to Mars distances: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-deep-space-communications-to-get-a-laser-boost

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NASA is sending a trio of miniature rovers to the Moon to see how well they can cooperate with one another without direct input from mission controllers back on Earth. Introducing CADRE (by Melissa Pamer, JPL): https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-trio-of-mini-rovers-will-team-up-to-explore-the-moon

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NASA is supporting the wine industry by helping California grape growers know about vine infections before disease takes hold. Fascinating research. Written by Sally Younger @NASAJPL https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-helps-spot-wine-grape-disease-from-skies-above-california

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An “interstellar shout” or perhaps a good ol’ Aussie “coo-ee” to #Voyager2 😁 Either way, an awesome job by the Voyager team NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and our very own CSIRO crew here at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , restoring full contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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Another day, another social network. So let's kick this one off with some fantastic news from beyond the heliosphere: NASA has reestablished communications with Voyager 2 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-mission-update-voyager-2-communications-pause 🙌🥳

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