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Phobos over Mars! Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2qQGtTG Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY ESA Mars Express HRSC 2014-05-31 Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int My album about Phobos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL #planetsci 🧪 @esa.int @dlr-en.bsky.social

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The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

submitted 19 hours ago • 90 comments

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months and will be presenting at the conference. This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop in Gale crater, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes. #planetsci 🧵

submitted 23 hours ago • 14 comments

I've never seen a nation torch its reputation the way Musk and Trump are torching that of the US. Every day they find a way to make a new segment of the world population detest them. Makes Brexit look like a PR triumph.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

The Moon and Mars tonight.

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Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods. Source: NYT

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

This is so damn frustrating. Like having NASA prove Earth isn't flat.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Jupiter’s north polar region, Juno Perijove 70. flic.kr/p/2qQzn5s

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Another way to #StandUpforScience is to buy and read science books. And give/recommend them to others to read. Have a science book you've written? Drop a link below! I've written two books on natural history. Here are mine, which you can buy directly from me. www.metrofieldguide.com/shop/

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

A real chant from today's Standing Up for Science rally in Salt Lake City. Megaphone: Somewhere, something incredible is... Crowd: ...waiting to be known!!

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to not consider starting to freebase heroin

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Europa Clipper: A Mission to Explore Ocean World Habitability - open access. Reference for the mission’s science objectives, the instruments used to achieve them, the spacecraft carrying and operating the payload, and the overall mission design. link.springer.com/collections/...

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Civil servant source says DOGE has made agencies much less efficient: "Work has ground down to a stunning degree and management is spending a significant amount of time responding & preparing to respond to the chaos incited by the never ending barrage of EOs & accompanying memos" Many make no sense🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 343 comments

"brains leaking out of his ears" may be too generous a description at this point

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Rider of the Purple Sage - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2jmBrzN

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 4 days ago • 1572 comments

I’m working on a piece about funding basic science and if you’ve never explored spinoff.nasa.gov, I would really encourage you to do so. Even though I’ve been doing this for 20 years, it really is humbling and informative to see the ways in which space science works its way into our daily lives.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

A nice little example of the toots of the Northern Pygmy-Owl from my encounter the other day. #birds #owls #nature

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Without Katherine Johnson, we might never have ever heard of John Glenn or Neil Armstrong. To believe there are no qualified Black/African Americans in STEM is to believe American history and achievements exist without Black people. This is Elon Musk’s apartheid South Africa America. #DOGE

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"Twitter was purchased in one day for $44 billion; NASA science took sixty-five years to spend the equivalent on multiple probes, visiting Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Moon, and half that price tag again bought breath-taking visits to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto."

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Well said!

submitted 5 days ago • 1288 comments

On March 7, 2025, there will be rallies across the US to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress. #standupforscience2025 Find your local event: standupforscience2025.org #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Can't stand this kind of sentiment, common in discussions about space. No Earth means no blue whales, no bluebells, no Blue Danube Waltz, no Blue Öyster Cult. No you. No one wants a galaxy with no you.

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From Voyager 1 — To extend my mission, my team has turned off another science instrument: The Cosmic Ray Subsystem helped confirm my passage into interstellar space. Now, I continue forward with three instruments still gathering data from the great beyond. go.nasa.gov/4koaCpV

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NASA's Dawn mission, which used ion propulsion for its expedition through the asteroid belt, arrived at the dwarf planet Ceres 10 years ago today. I loved working on this pure exploration mission that was so cool, yet so undersung (despite our best efforts): science.nasa.gov/mission/dawn/

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The thing which is bugging me about this is foregrounding a scientific defence against "Empathy is bad" rather than noting that a society that values Empathy is the only society worth living in and the only one worth fighting for.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Jupiter PJ70_26 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast acquired by JunoCam from 51143 km at 2025-03-02T15:23:23

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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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I hope someday someone can write about how my federal scientist colleagues are just gritting their teeth, continuing to do science, no matter how many wrenches are thrown at them. They'll keep collecting data for the public good until the very last minute. They are heroes.

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The International Owl Center in Houston, MN has an annual Children's International Owl Art Contest and here are some of the winners. More details and art in the link 🪶 www.festivalofowls.com/kids-art-con...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.

submitted 6 days ago • 62 comments

"Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence.” @voosen.me reports on some of the climate-forecasting impacts of the NOAA firings 🧪

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Another nice one from Friday of the 1.2% crescent #moon #photohour

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Deep in Saturn’s northern hexagon is a 2,000 kilometer (1,250 mile) wide high-wind vortex, seen here in infrared false color. Imaged by Cassini. flic.kr/p/2g5dxDw flic.kr/p/2g4xyyQ

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

According to the USDA, total ag exports in 2023 were just a hair under $179 billion. In case you're curious...

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

The Social destabilization timeline just keeps accelerating.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Morning at Mare Crisium. Minor tonal adjustments have been made, for some reason the cameras on Blue Ghost from which we have so far seen images from the Lunar surface don't show white, only a light blue gray.

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“Cuts at NOAA/NWS are spectacularly short-sighted and ultimately will deal a major self-inflicted wound to the public safety of Americans and the resiliency of the American economy to weather and climate-related disasters” www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments