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Bluesky account for the Dallas Mars Society, local chapter of the Mars Society: marssociety.org

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Perseverance Image Bot 📡 @persevereimgbot.bsky.social · 12h
Sol 2006: Right Navcam, taken at 14:40:39.456 (local mean solar time)
An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 10h
HiPOD: Layers in Nili Fossae These beautiful false color cutouts feature a series of layers in Nili Fossae. Nili has often been on the list for potential landing sites for robotic exploration, given its rich landscape of mineral diversity. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077367_2045 #Mars #science
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 10h
Curiosity could reach the base of these cliffs in 2027, giving scientists an opportunity to investigate how they formed and what they reveal about Mars's geologic and environmental history. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Learn more: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-c...
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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-catches-stunning-martian-dawn/
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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 6h
astrobiology.com/2026/10/12/h... #astrobiology #astrochemistry #astrobiology
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Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Active Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Measurements from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft revealed (101955) Bennu as a member of the active asteroid class.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 3h
CRS-35 mission set to resupply the ISS. By Justin Davenport www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/crs-...
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 5h
Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, October 12, from approx. 4:11 p.m. PDT / 23:11 UTC, as SpaceX launches the Starlink Group 15-25 mission. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOy...
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SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with Starlink 15-25
YouTube video by NASASpaceflight
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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 3h
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has earned its name, setting a new "Off-World" record for furthest distance driven by any rover on another world, 28.10 miles (45.22 km), breaking the record of the rover Opportunity at 28.06 mi (45.16 km) from 2004-2018. science.nasa.gov/blogs/persev...
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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven - NASA Science
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has driven farther than any vehicle ever has on the surface of another world. On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached
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Marko Rummelsburg @markorummelsburg.bsky.social · 8h
Another possibly earth-directed filament eruption occurred on the southern hemisphere of the Sun. (SDO AIA 304, SDO AIA 171/193/211 tricolor base difference, GOES X-ray flux long, e-Callisto radiogram)
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 3h
Perseverance has set a new off-world record! 🏅 On Oct. 11, the rover's odometer hit 28.1 miles (45.22 km), eclipsing the distance record set by NASA's Opportunity rover. Longer drives are putting more geological diversity within reach faster science.nasa.gov/blogs/persev... youtu.be/XaxuV6tsIb4?...
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Record Drive Path Animation (as of Oct. 11, 2026)
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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Des Welch, a former space shuttle astronaut instructor, has written a terrific book now available on Amazon: "Geoff Perry and the Kettering Group: How a British teacher and his pupils revealed secrets of the Soviet Union's space program." 1/2
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Launch Alerts @launchalertsbot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🚀 Within 24 hours: SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25 NET Mon Oct 12, 7:00 PM EDT from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg, California. Status: Go for Launch. #SpaceX #Starlink #space
SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
HiPOD: Mounds and Pits The objective of this observation is to determine the nature of a group of mounds, some of which have small pits at their summits. These features may be caused by ground ice melting and possibly turning into steam. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_069669_2220
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Chiricahua National Monument is about to become Chiricahua National Park. After years of pushing, I’m proud this is finally heading to be signed into law. It’s going to create jobs, grow our state’s economy and help preserve one of the most special places in the world.
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An interstellar comet came from another solar system — so how different is it from the comets we already know? In this clip, Dr. Cecilia Tubiana explains that 3I/ATLAS may be an interstellar visitor, but some of its properties look surprisingly familiar. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Phobos (including Saturn and Deimos) in the latest release of @esa.int Mars Express Can you spot Saturn? Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2sFoFaS 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY ESA Mars Express Release September 15, 2026 Note: Saturn has been enlarged by 300%
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 10/10/2026
🔭 Lunar Farside Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ap261010
A mosaic image of the farside of the Moon.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 10/10/2026
And RTLS Booster touchdown on LZ-4E
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 10/10/2026
Stage Separation
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 10/10/2026
LAUNCH! Falcon 9 B1103-6 launches the Tranche 1 Transport Layer A Mission from SLC-4E, Vandenberg.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
See Mars meet the Beehive. Graphic from Sky at Night Magazine. 🔭 🧪
Graphic showing path of planet Mars though the Beehive star cluster. Includes text detailing visibility.
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Perseverance Image Bot 📡 @persevereimgbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sol 2004: SHERLOC ACI Camera, imaged at 21:22:56.730 (local mean solar time)
An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars
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Perseverance Image Bot 📡 @persevereimgbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sol 2004: SHERLOC ACI Camera, imaged at 21:24:08.751 (local mean solar time)
An image taken by the Perseverance rover on Mars
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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10 DAYS UNTIL THE LAUNCH OF THE JAXA MARTIAN MOONS EXPLORATION (#MMX) MISSION! 🚀🛰️ It's a place of evil, but the MMX account has been posting these cute countdown videos every day on twitter (and also instagram and threads, for a different brand of evil). The model in the background is Hayabusa2!
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Launch Alerts @launchalertsbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Next up in orbital launches (times ET, NET): • Mon Oct 12, 7:00 PM ET — SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-25 (Vandenberg, California) • Tue Oct 13, 6:33 AM ET — SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-35 (Cape Canaveral, Florida) #SpaceX #Starlink #space
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/10/2026
At the VEXAG 2026 meeting in Boulder just now, we've learned that NASA's VERITAS mission has been scheduled for a November 2032 launch. Folks, this is CRAZY good news. Earlier this year we were concerned that NASA would *cancel* VERITAS!
An artist's impression of the VERITAS spacecraft above a stylised view of Venus.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If only there had been warnings about this exact issue beforehand.... 🙄 SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink arstechnica.com/space/2026/1...
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SpaceX calls for better coordination in orbit after near-misses with Starlink
These led to conjunctions of tens of meters to hundreds of meters. Way too close to comfort."
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
HiPOD: A Ridge in Arabia Terra The objective of this observation is to examine a straight ridge that might be a dike. Sometimes magma (molten rock) below the surface may fill an existing fracture, even pushing the fracture open in the process. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065300_2100 #Mars
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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Personally I think it is ridiculous that NASA's leaders swoon & obsess over their Fantasy League race to beat China to the Moon yet TOTALLY ignore the incredible work and REAL SCIENCE being done by the Mars rovers. This is Curiosity's latest view. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/SA
Image of layered rocks in a valley on the upper slopes of Gale Crater, sent back from the Mars rover Curiosity. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/SAImage of layered rocks in a valley on the upper slopes of Gale Crater, sent back from the Mars rover Curiosity. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/SA
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
HiRISE 3D: A Small Channel The objective of this observation is to examine a small channel on the wall of an old impact crater. The scene is also visible in Context Camera image data. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09393… NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Launch Alerts @launchalertsbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
✅ Success: SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A lifted off at 3:39 AM EDT from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg, California. #SpaceX #space
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DMS @dallasmars.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What reason was given for this seemingly boneheaded move?
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mastcam imagery captured two days ago in Valle Grande by Curiosity #Mars Oct. 8, 2026 - Sol 5038 🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
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Launch Alerts @launchalertsbot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
✅ Success: Long March 12 | SatNet LEO Group 27 lifted off at 3:27 PM EDT from Commercial LC-2, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China. #space
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Dr Robin George Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: On Oct 20, Japan will launch its most audacious space mission. It’s hoping to fly to Mars, land twice (!) on Phobos (“fear”), steal pieces of that alien moon, and bring ‘em home. That’s right: to pull of this heist, Japan must confront fear itself. @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Audacious space heist aims to bring home bits of mysterious martian moon
Samples from Japan’s MMX mission could reveal how Phobos formed—and may contain pieces of Mars
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The M6.7 CME has been modeled by NOAA SWPC, and it's... interesting! In the model, the CME "catches up" to the slower C7.9 CME out ahead of it, forming a mess of magnetism partially headed towards Earth.
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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They're all out now. In order: Hathaway, Adenot and Fedyaev. News conference at 1:15 pm ET today on this crew return and the upcoming launch of SpX-35 cargo ship next week (Oct 13). Watch on NASA YouTube.
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DMS @dallasmars.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's been over for some time but it'll still be archived up on YT:)
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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
astrobiology.com/2026/10/08/a... #astrobiology #astronomy #SETI @setiinstitute.bsky.social
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A Technosignature Survey Of The Anti-Solar Point: The SETI Institute's Largest-Ever Campaign With The Allen Telescope Array
The ATA-ASP campaign is a radio technosignature survey of the Anti-Solar Point as a "Schelling point", using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA)
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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
astrobiology.com/2026/10/08/t... #astrobiology #SETI
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The First Decade of Breakthrough Listen
Breakthrough Listen is the most comprehensive search for technosignatures ever conducted
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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
astrobiology.com/2026/10/08/m... #astrobiology #Mars
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Mars’ Oddest Cloud May Be Even Odder Than We Thought
Scientists using the European Space Agency's Mars Express, in combination with a state-of-the-art meteorological model of the Red Planet
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UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory @uarizonalpl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
September 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. In the more than two decades since its inception, the mission overcame several challenges to accomplish unprecedented feats of exploration and science. news.arizona.edu/news/tenacit...
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Tenacity, triumph and discovery: Looking back at OSIRIS-REx at mission's end
Sept. 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. This was the United States' first ambitious attempt to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth, and it was led by the Univer...
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Launch Alerts @launchalertsbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚀 Within 24 hours: Long March 12 | Unknown Payload NET Fri Oct 9, 3:25 PM EDT from Commercial LC-2, Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China. Status: Go for Launch. #space
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From NASA A journey to the depths of ancient Mars? Perseverance is exploring a field of light-toned rocks, which are an unusual sight on Mars, a planet dominated by dark-colored basaltic stones. This piqued the team’s interest. What are they? How did they get here? science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...
A desert landscape on Mars, seen from beneath the rover, with its robotic "hand" visible along with and a wheel with tracks in the dirt.A field of light-toned rocks in reddish soil.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Extremely cool mission. NASA’s contributions include the MEGANE gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, the surface sampler mechanism, and comms and navigation support from the agency’s Deep Space Network, as well as funding for participating US scientists. science.nasa.gov/mission/mmx/
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MMX - NASA Science
Japan's MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) will study Mars' small moons Phobos and Deimos, collect a sample of one of them and return it to Earth.
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From NASA Media are invited to join NASA for a teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, which will explore the Red Planet's moons and return a sample of Phobos. go.nasa.gov/4B2qNBI
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NASA Briefing to Highlight Contributions to Martian Moons Mission - NASA
Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace
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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Crew-12 Back on Earth as ISS Keeps Busy spacepolicyonline.com/news/crew-12...
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
HiRISE 3D: Quite Lovely Bedrock in Aureum Chaos Imaging this part of Mars is always a delight with the stunning chaotic terrain and bright exposures of bedrock against darker surroundings. www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_09419… NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
3D image shows large exposures of bright bedrock rising above darker surrounding terrain on Mars. The scene is less than 5 km, or 3 miles, across.
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
HiPOD: Cutting through Lava Flows on Olympus Mons There appears a single deep channel that is cutting through a field of lava flows on the eastern flank of Olympus Mons. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065254_1975 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA
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Launch Alerts @launchalertsbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Next up in orbital launches (times ET, NET): • Fri Oct 9, 3:25 PM ET – Long March 12, unknown payload, Wenchang Space Launch Site, China • Sat Oct 10, 3:29 AM ET – SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5, SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A, Vandenberg, California #SpaceX #space
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Prof. Abel Méndez @profabelmendez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN
The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
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