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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Honestly, I was afraid to find worse down your link, not that bad considering the source material! I had less coverage with insight data! I'll try to have a look at it some day now you put the idea in my head 😅

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

I'm not familiar with Pathfinder and Sojy image data, but if there is a possibility, I would be more than happy to provide 3d outcrop models if I can make some!!

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Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Added some extra ancillary info and slowed it down....so now you can replay the whole mission over about 27 minutes - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8l...

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Mars Pathfinder Full Mission Time Lapse

YouTube video by Doug Ellison

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah j'en sais rien, je suis en congés en ce moment 😅

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

They actually do, but I have to recon that access is less user-friendly than PDS. My chinese colleague greatly helped this happen! The public data are currently hosted at: clpds.bao.ac.cn/mall/MarsDATA

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

I am very happy of having acheived this work and developped new collaborations with Chinese colleagues, and can't wait to see what's next in their Mars exploration program! Please read and share this open access paper and feel free to reach out for comments! 😃 8/8

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

And what's best than being able to "actually" visit these sites? So we embedded the models in #VirtualReality 😎 5/X

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Accurate scaling checked against controlled orbital data also enables science-ready characterization of these models 📏 4/X

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Using these products, we notably show a variety of geomorphologies, including small metric-scale impact craters whose 3D form is only appreciable using these outcrop models :) 3/X

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

On this work, my Chinese co-first author and I worked to propose a simplified pipeline to reconstruct #3D models of various #outcrops visited by Zhurong during its one year mission 2/X

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

I am happy to share my latest open access publication, the first using data from the Chinese rover #Zhurong. It marks a huge achievement: I have now published on all of the current generation #mars rovers! 🥳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/X 🧵

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

And on the other hand, SR-1 and PROMISE are complete non-sensical garbage with no actual science value, and actually poor technical return...

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

Not like if he was more or less personnally involved with cancellation of most of these projects...

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

There's so much wrongs in this proposal to begin with... 😑

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

From NASA: Curiosity has delivered a new 360-degree panorama from Mars. “We’ve seen a lot of fascinating landscapes through Curiosity’s eyes, but this sea of polygons took our breath away,” said the mission’s project scientist. Zoom into the rover's latest views: www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

Panoramic view of a desert landscape with textured ground and distant, layered hills. Part of the rover can be seen in the lower left.

Reddish desert terrain textured with a pattern of small, hexagonal raised ridges. Part of the rover can be seen in the lower left.

Layered rocks in the foreground and smoother, reddish, tooth-like hills along the distant horizon.

A rocky hill about 20 feet (6 meters) tall capped with sand on the pointy top.

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

Loks like corals and (1st and 2nd pic) and a belmenit (3rd) to me ;)

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Cordillera and Cabarya, hard not thinking about replacing Kodiak by Cordillera on my favorite Martian outcrop top ^^

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Do you want to see an exceptional #jurassic #limestones #outcrop? I got you coverd with my latest #DOM on Sketchfab, the Font Froide section! 🪨⛏️ Have a rest on these nice carbonated benches ☺️and browse through annotations for more micro-models 🔬of the embedded fossils! 🐚 skfb.ly/pM6oM

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Font Froide section (Caylus, Quercy, France) - 3D model by Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca (@GCC_mars)

This is a low-resolution version of the Font Froide outcrop, a few kilometers away from the small town of Caylus (Quercy, France). It features a lateral stacking of (sub-)metric limestones beds with s...

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NeV-T @nev-t.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🟠 MSL 4958 MR © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/NeV-T Q-VIEW - live.staticflickr.com/65535/554113... Gigapan - gigapan.com/gigapans/239... GIGAmacro - viewer.gigamacro.com/view/CFtCSRp... Gigapan Website - www.nev-t-gigamacros.com #Mars #science #NASA

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Cité de l'espace @citedelespace.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🟠 OTD, il y a 50 ans, la sonde Viking 1 se posait sur Mars à 11h53 et prenait ce panorama exceptionnel de sa surface. Les sondes soviétiques Mars 1 et 3 avaient déjà réussi à se poser mais Viking 1 est le premier atterrisseur qui a réussi à fonctionner plus de quelques secondes.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

On Mars yesterday science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...

Black-and-white photo of part of the Curiosity rover (an antenna and a wheel) in a rocky desert with layered cliffs

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

Et allez, y en avait pas encore assez de constellations à la mords-moi le noeud...

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

It was during the great storm of MY34 right?

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

These are the mosaics I am currently planning and working on, and as walways wonderfully displayed by @NEVT60138024 🤩

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Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The very best “what the f*}k?…..how on Ares beige planet did this happen?” I’ve seen since we started roving. Literally ran over a white pebble and it was essentially pure sulfur.

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

You forgot the best part: "ran over a white pebble and stalled 2 meters away so we can serendipitously analyze it!"

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

J'aime l'odeur du methanOx au petit matin 😎

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

J'allais dire mais c'est quoi cette merde... 😑

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

I can't say for sure because I'm not an expert on such things, but indeed it has the shine of it, so maybe, possibly ^^ in any case, we shot it with LIBS, I was there to plan it on Monday 😜

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026

Bah, encore une où je suis éliminé d'office... 🤣

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

China’s #Tianwen2 probe has arrived at the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa and begun scientific exploration. After a 400-day journey of roughly 1 billion km through deep space. The image shows the target asteroid, taken by the probe from roughly 20 km away on approach to Kamo'oalewa on July 2.

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Cité de l'espace @citedelespace.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Et voilà où il se trouve. On aperçoit même les traces des roues de Perseverance et ses rotations sur lui-même. L'image a été prise le 14 juin juste avant qu'il franchisse la barre symbolique des 42,195 km.

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A flyby of Holden Crater on Mars HRSC / ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / Seán Doran

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026

Je l'ai vu "à plat" et l'ET pas loin, j'en ai encore des frissons. Si tu cumules avec Independance (la mock-up) au JSC à Houston et Atlantis au KSC en position d'orbite, t'arrives à faire le combo d'avoir la navette dans ttes ses phases de vol 🤩

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The rover was ~120 m shy of a marathon at this location. If you follow the dark streak heading southwest, you’ll see two ‘fresh’ craters of equal size. The ‘finishing line’ was just above them.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Snippets from a 171-images, 360° Mastcam panorama captured two days ago by Curiosity #Mars June 19, 2026 - Sol 4930 🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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Dr. Gwénaël Caravaca 🔴 ⛏ @gccmars.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

Contruire ? Même juste déconstruire ou modifier... Bref, ça m'a tué de voir ça... On l'a fait avec l'ELA4 reconstruit pour A6, mais bon, c'est sûr, c'est oins impressionant...

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 19/06/2026