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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 5h

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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"smokey stevenson" @kurtblumenau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

temporary scoreboards: so awesome. Pull up your flivver and watch the World Serious with all your neighbors

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HiPOD: Trundling Boulders These trundling boulders left behind conspicuous tracks, up to a kilometer long. The tracks resemble dashed lines or perforations, indicating that the boulders bounced as they trundled down the slopes. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_046381_1665 #Mars #NASA #science

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

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Letter to Charles Lyell
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hinted that there would be more images from the Juice flyby, so here is the timelapse of the full event! It's always amazing to get these views of our fragile Blue Marble from the spacecraft we send out to explore the solar system! 🔭🧪 #planetsci

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

HiPOD: Sediment Layers in a Xanthe Terra Crater This image is a followup to a previous observation that we acquired in 2007. There is opportunity for fine scale analysis of dune and ripple migration over two different types of sediment. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077319_1780 #Mars #NASA

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 30/09/2026

Q: why can’t orangutans play comic songs? A: because there’s no ook allele.

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 30/09/2026

Happy New Mars Year! 🥳 At exactly 10:16 CEST/08:16 UTC on Earth, the Red Planet begins a new orbit around our Sun. Join us in celebrating martian year 39 🎉

Infographic with facts and figures about New Mars Year 39.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Sunset of September 27, 2026 was an epic spectacle whose intensity and beauty were memorable. The cloud ceiling had a wide opening toward the West that admitted Sunlight which underwent progressive color changes as it briefly in turn illuminated layers of otherwise invisible cloud textures.

The Sunset of September 27th, 2026 was one of the greatest visions the sky has ever opened up and revealed to me. It was a sunset like few I can remember in many years. I knew early on what was likely as a heavy cloud ceiling was opening up far to the West with the underside textures in that part of the cloud ceiling catching the light early on from the distant sunlit clouds.

Vast connected cloud formations were in turn bathed in the last sunlight which progressively turned from a golden to orange to very red, in as pure a spectral filtering of Sunlight as I can recall seeing. One layer of cloud formations after another caught the light as the rays steadily angled upwards. The most distant yellow gold clouds were dazzling, like incandescent molten gold that defied photography. Lower layers were bathed in the reddest light that contrasted in hue with the more orange colors in the illuminated parts of the broken cloud ceiling above. Wide areas of the field of view were thus illuminated, appearing and fading one after the other like a parade of vast apparitions coming and going.

The last lit clouds gave up their lurid radiance reluctantly and with a very red final flourish. But the brilliance was still happening, withdrawing beyond the Western horizon as Earth's rotation carried us into the realm of the night. The Sunset lit clouds far away were still in itself illuminating clouds nearby. From their altitude the brilliance and colors along the horizon hundreds of miles away dominate the ambient lighting. This brought an extended 'echo' of the Sunset as every cloud surface facing West shone with that fading lurid glow, like a long slowly fading piano note after a great symphony.

I have seen many hundreds of Sunsets and sunrises, but something about this one struck me as almost like a kind of religious experience. Awestruck wonder and numbly bathing in the experience while periodically trying to preserve a visual record.

An all sky frame of the Sunset of September 27, 2026. Canon 6D with a fisheye lens. I now shoot most such sequences aimed straight up to show the entire horizon. Unfortunately due to a technical issue this became the first frame of the time lapse sequence, but I did get the extended 'afterglow'.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Interesting rock seen by Perseverance on Mars yesterday (sorry, don't know the scale, just thought it looked cool!) Processed mosaic of several images. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/S Atkinson

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night's gorgeous #HarvestMoon, photographed from Kendal using my Seestar S50 (mosaic of two images, cropped and processed)...

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 02/09/2026

Same release date in the UK (Oct 2, Prime rather than AMC+) but… UK gets all 8 eps at once, America gets ‘em weekly. (Still won’t make you a better person. At all.) youtu.be/dKgTyq2-4w0

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Kill Jackie | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Amazon Prime Video UK & IE

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026

I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 25/09/2026

Earth and Venus may have started out as near twins, but today one is full of life and the other is a scorching greenhouse world 🌋 ESA's Envision launches in 2031 to find out why they turned out so differently. Discover more here 👉 esa.int/envision 🔭

An image of Earth and Venus on a black background, with the Envision spacecraft in the foreground. The left half of Venus shows what it looks like from space, enshrouded in a thick cloud cover (image by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft), while the right half shows a map of the surface terrain as reconstructed from radar data recorded by NASA's Magellan mission.

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 25/09/2026

"Day 224 orbit 3472 — ESTEC, ESA’s technical heart, is located in Noordwijk, in the Netherlands, and sits just behind the sand dunes, with the North Sea beyond", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 👋 @technology.esa.int 📸 ESA/NASA – S. Adenot Zoom in: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Noordwijk, The Netherlands

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And one is in the middle of a tectonic plate over a hotspot, the other split in half by a major plate tectonic boundary. ⛰️ You're welcome. 😆

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nimbleasanimbus.bsky.social @nimbleasanimbus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the plus side we got a new Disney meme.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No, seriously - whatever you're doing just stop and take a moment to admire the pure beauty of these ancient Martian rocks, seen by Curiosity just a few hours ago... Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson (that big twisty, dark, knobbly one HAS to be a meteorite, surely?)

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Paul Cornish @paulgcornish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Had a dream last night that I was watching a harrowing drama about Frasier Crane. Frasier is in a wheelchair & living in an isolated mansion with his wife. He is beaten by a home invader, who steals his house. Niles must teach him to fence so he can win back both his home & his self respect.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

HiPOD: Ridges near Vernal Crater In this scene, there is contact between a ridged unit and a presumably underlying non-ridged unit. Our observation can help to see if ridges penetrate both units or are confined to just the upper unit. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065223_1855 #Mars #NASA

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HiPOD: An Interesting Mesa The objective of this observation is to examine a layered mesa with an interesting cone-shaped hill at its top. This footprint is in Nepenthes Mensae, which is the largest mensae on Mars, covering 2,176 km (1,352 mi) in length. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077286_1855

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"You know, I'm something of a blockhead myself."

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As you read this, 261 million km away on Mars, a nuclear-powered robot geologist/astrobiologist called Curiosity is looking down at the ground between its torn and weary wheels and seeing this beautiful sight... NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

HiPOD: Troughs in Elysium Fossae These troughs are tectonic features, likely formed by the stretching, tearing and subsequent collapse of the crust resulting from the rise of the nearby Elysium volcanic province. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_044884_2050 #Mars #NASA #science

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To be honest, I'm not really sure why, but I *love* this new image from Curiosity showing Martian rocks and pebbles covering a low dust dune, high up on the slopes of Mt Sharp... Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/S Atkinson

Image taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, currently working its way up a valley, high up on the slopes of Mt Sharp in the centre of Gale Crater.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12/09/2026

My wife just described the original Planet of the Apes as “like Star Trek but with monkeys” which is sort of hard to argue against.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

HiPOD: He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Neighbor Two neighboring, approximately 3-km diameter craters have different interior deposits and structures. Some of the features may be gullies. Our image can better provide details about crater evolution. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077291_2210 #Mars #NASA

Grayscale aerial view of two large crater side by side on the surface of Mars.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

HiPOD: A Small Network in Terra Sirenum The objective of this observation is to examine a small channel network located in Terra Sirenum. A Context Camera image showed some small branches, but HiRISE is able to see more branches and details. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077257_1360 #Mars #NASA

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Perseverance rover team are paying a lot of attention to this rock.Just look at the stunning detail visible in this close-up image, taken just a few hours ago on Mars... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HiPOD: Scarp of Ages Scarps such as this have either active landslides or the potential for such. When this occurs, it’s likely the result of the sublimation of ice that dislodges darker subsurface material. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077256_2655 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An update on Rocket Lab's project to send a privately-funded spacecraft to Venus, working with MIT's Sara Seager and others. Everything is waiting on the Neutron rocket. www.space.com/astronomy/ve...

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Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Honoured to be conferred this Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences. Bittersweet at a time when my university is decimating its world leading social sciences & humanities depts.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wow... look at the gorgeous detail on the surface of this rock seen in close up by Perseverance yesterday! In years to come there are going to be some *gorgeous* polished Martian kitchen tops aren't there? Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yesterday, the NASA Perseverance rover captured this view of Mars' moon Phobos. The large crater Stickney is visible in the top left of the moon. 🔭🧪 flic.kr/p/2sxUsq4 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

A potato shaped object with small dimples and craters is seen against a black sky.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 19/07/2025

The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons. And crossing in front of it, one of the smallest moons, Phobos. Photographed from Mars orbit. Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck (@andrealuck.bsky.social) CC BY

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HiPOD: A Confluence of Features The objective of this observation is to examine a small spot of ribbed terrain. It is where debris aprons from two mounds are meeting and makes for an interesting landscape in this part of Deuteronilus Mensae. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077250_2235 #Mars #NASA

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

HiPOD: Gullies at the Start of Martian Spring In this image, we can see dark spots where gas is breaking out from under the frost and taking sand and dust with it. HiRISE will try to take more images this year to see how the surface changes,. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_090596_1115 #Mars #NASA

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

HiPOD: Down in the Paleochannels Transverse aeolian ridges—or TAR—are mysterious, wind-blown features that are intermediate in size between ripples and much larger sand dunes. More: uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_042625_1655 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

HiPOD: Exposed in Oxia Planum This crater contains exposures in the rim that can corroborate prevailing hypotheses for Oxia Planum’s geologic history ahead of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover’s landing, currently planned for 2030. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077239_1965 #Mars #science #NASA

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

friendly reminder, @bbl-astrophyscs.bsky.social and I are studying the 2026 baseball! some of the first arrived today. we’d like to know what’s happening, but we need your help! If you want more info, DM me, email bwdconnect@proton.me and of course: keep up with the ongoing series at [eyeblack]

there’s a big hole in MLB’s yellow ball defense

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Dan Holley @danholley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Partial Solar Eclipse of 12th August 2026 over east Devon – maximum obscuration around 94% ☀️🌗🌍

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched tiny shadows on a piece of paper through a kitchen utensil near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 13/08/2026

A 300 mm composite of the partial solar eclipse seen from Herne Bay yesterday evening, peaking at 90.83%.

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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

HiPOD: Sine of the Times At the southern section of the floor of an impact crater is this stunning lobate (tongue-shaped) debris apron with surface banding showing high sinuosity. This is might be the result of glacial or periglacial processes. uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_077210_2140 #Mars

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy #StandingStoneSunday to all who celebrate 🥳 The atmospheric stone circle at Castlerigg, Keswick, last June - in anything but a heatwave Very much looking forward to revisiting this majestic site in a few day's time 🤗 📷 My own

A moody photo of a great stone circle with wet ground & clouds above

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