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Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All I planned was a Sol 5000 morning postcard......credit to Kevin for adding the PM poscard on 5003 and doing the processing on this one.

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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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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hi everybody, I organized the #Artemis2 photos for you. Index pages containing all ~10,000 images in chronological order with time stamps and focal lengths, color coded by which of three cameras was used to shoot them. countlessworlds.com/data/artemis/

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Emily's data pages: Artemis

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Great interview with Steve Squyres on the Blue Origin podcast. Its been too long since I last heard him talk! First five minutes are on MER and oh man does that bring back the memories! youtu.be/cJS9F5mRnFk...

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

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Episode 2: Steve Squyres, Blue Origin Chief Scientist

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Abigail Fraeman @abbyfrae.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

After exploring the surface of Mars for 20 years maybe you think we've seen it all? Lol, definitely not. This morning's view from Curiosity is WILD.

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Cloudy Mars: Olympus and Tharsis, ESA Mars Express HRSC Massive 220MP image on Flickr ➡️ flic.kr/p/2seL8ss 🔭🧪 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 2025-08-02 North is down HR242_0000 ND3+GR3+BL3 Notes: Cool cloud formation over the North Pole and a dust storm-like feature over Olympus Mons!

View of Mars from orbit. Colours are rusty red and pale white from cloud cover and atmospheric haze. Bright white polar ice caps swirl near the top, while thin cloudy streaks drift across the surface. Four large circular volcanoes are arranged in a broad triangle across the planet’s face. The scene feels dry, vast and softly hazy. Notably, a very cool spiral-like cloud formation appears over the North Pole, along with a dust storm-like feature near Olympus Mons.

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Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Rock off. 🤘

A square black and white fisheye camera view of Mars. A dark patch from where a rock got picked up, and a broken up rock from where it dropped off a drill visible at the top of frame.

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Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Collected on April 23, 2026, by one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites, this image of the Hubble Space Telescope from above was acquired from only 61.8 km away.

Picture of the Hubble Space Telescope from Orbit.

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Beautiful pics of the Artemis II astronauts, captured when they arrived on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha, after returning from space (1/3) Photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class August Clawson, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/image/960862... #Artemis 🧪🔭

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026. John P. Murtha is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission, retrieving the crew and spacecraft following their return to Earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts on a flight around the moon in the Orion space craft, marking the first time humans journeyed to deep space in over 50 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class August Clawson)

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Awesome pics of the Artemis II recovery by the US Navy divers (1/3) Photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class David Rowe, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One. www.dvidshub.net/image/960910... #Artemis 🧪🔭

The Orion space craft parachutes toward the ocean near the amphibious transport dock ship USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from the Artemis II lunar mission on April 10, 2026. John P. Murtha is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission, retrieving the crew and spacecraft following their return to Earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts on a flight around the moon in the Orion space capsule, marking the first time humans journeyed to deep space in over 50 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David Rowe)

U.S. Navy divers, attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group (EODGRU) 1, transit to the Artemis II crew module landing zone, to recover the Artemis II crew after returning from its lunar mission on April 10, 2026. John P. Murtha is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission, retrieving the crew and spacecraft following their return to Earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts on a flight around the moon in the Orion space capsule, marking the first time humans journeyed to deep space in over 50 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David Rowe)

U.S. Navy divers, attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group (EODGRU) 1, conduct a hazardous material detection sweep of the Artemis II crew module after its return from its lunar mission on April 10, 2026. John P. Murtha is underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations supporting NASA’s Artemis II mission, retrieving the crew and spacecraft following their return to Earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts on a flight around the moon in the Orion space capsule, marking the first time humans journeyed to deep space in over 50 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David Rowe)

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Love this! One of the best pictures from the whole mission!

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Fun fact: many of the prettiest photos taken by robotic spacecraft were similarly framed ahead of time by humans using simulators of view geometry to pick when the spacecraft should shoot the photo. Case in point: this photo of Europa over Jupiter from New Horizons science.nasa.gov/image-detail...

New Horizons Spies Europa
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Europa hanging above Jupiter's cloud tops with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) at 11:48 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, six hours after the spacecraft's closest approach to Jupiter. The picture was one of a handful of the Jupiter system that New Horizons took primarily for artistic, rather than scientific, value. This particular scene was suggested by space enthusiast Richard Hendricks of Austin, Texas, in response to an Internet request by New Horizons scientists for evocative, artistic imaging opportunities at Jupiter. The spacecraft was 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Jupiter and 3 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Europa when the picture was taken. Europa's diameter is 3,120 kilometers (1,939 miles). The image is centered on Europa coordinates 5 degrees south, 6 degrees west. In keeping with its artistic intent - and to provide a more dramatic perspective - the image has been rotated so south is at the top.

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Loren Grush @lorengrush.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Um OKAY. Breathtaking photos from the Artemis II crew's lunar flyby and eclipse viewing

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barbylon @barbylon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Look, I know I am biased, but the #ArtemisII crew don't talk about wastewater dumps with unbridled joy. They don't do suit tests with a grin that will break their face in half. Our human space flight serves many purposes, but SCIENCE is undoubtedly the shiniest. 🧪🔭🚀🌘

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Home. Earth, but in my case, that particular bit down there. #ArtemisII #Australia

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Geraint Jones @baralawr.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

London's BT Tower silhouetted against the disk of the rising Sun, with the sunspot groups of active regions AR13720 & 13719 prominent. 2024 June 25. Taken from the Hog's Back, Surrey, about 50km from the tower; 150 million km from the Sun #london #bttower #sun #astrophotography #sunspots #astronomy

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 22/02/2026

🔭 Shadow of a Martian Robot Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Mars Exploration Rover Mission apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...

A black and white image shows an unusual landscape with a
bright ridge across the top and texture like small sand dunes.
The shadow of something unusual dominates the image center.
Wheels are visible at the bottom of the image. near the middle.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Too faint for the naked eye, but on the phone camera, #AuroraAustralis is clearly visible from #Melbourne (40°S).

Purple pillars of Aurora light embedded in more diffuse purple with green through the silhouetted trees closer to the horizon. Many stars are visible, including the Southern Cross.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is what it would look like to fly over the Martian North Pole aboard @esa.int's Mars Express orbiter. This sequence of 117 images was captured by the VMC camera on June 14th, 2019 over the course of 3 hours and is played a 1200x speed. #planetsci Credit: ESA/Simeon Schmauß flic.kr/p/2rQAPdw

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"You know what makes us happy? The Sydney Opera House! We should show you that." "Your nation enjoys opera?" "*chuckles* Nah." www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2uv...

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The Happiness List - 2026 Australian Lamb ad

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Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Kudos to our project scientist who helps advocate for these every ~year when I think the view might work and we've got a little bit of energy and time spare in a plan. Doing the science on the day to day is important. Taking a moment now and again to do something just for art is important as well.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The MER rover Opportunity photographed the lengthening shadows on its 2847th Martian day, or 'Sol'. I combined 6 images making this view while fighting the wildly different contrast and exposures in the preliminary jpegs. Two versions are on the ASU PANCAM site: pancam.sese.asu.edu/2847B_P2445....

The MER rovers brought us a great variety of views of Martian scenery. This mosaic of 6 frames show the shadows lengthening across the interior of 14 mile (22 km) wide Endeavour Crater. This is the initial 'Monument Valley red' version I made, later I reconsidered what the colors should be and both versions appear at the Arizona State University of Arizona PANCAM page. This image was picked up all over the place, and appeared on the cover of the Summer Solstice 2013 issue of the Planetary Report.

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Doug Ellison @dougellison.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Of course Earth is my favorite planet. It's home. But Mars is where my imagination lives. I've dedicated the last 8 years of my career to its exploration. I refuse to let billionaires ruin the home of my imagination and defile the frontier of the human experience.

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Dr. Fred J. Calef III @mapperwocky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Everyone is dealing with the US Presidential inauguration in their own way. My version, for now, is to express my thoughts as a citizen of the USA. Feel free to ignore this deeply political post, but as they say, “buckle up” if you choose to read through. 🧵

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Managed to catch Comet ATLAS fortuitously through the only tiny gap in-between trees as seen from my balcony here in Melbourne. Pretty ancient Nikon D90, f/5 4”. 21:37 AEDT (58 mins past sunset) 6° above horizon, just about to enter cloud. #comet #cometc2024g3

A grey sky framed by silhouettes of trees on either side and by lot clouds at the bottom. The comet is just above the clouds with a tail extending towards the upper right.

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James Canvin @nivnac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today I finally got to meet Glen Nagle in person after nearly 20 years of knowing each other online! He gave us an amazing tour of Canberra DSN complex. The amount of space history artefacts that Glen has been able to save, both in the visitor centre and in his archive is staggering.

Glen Nagle (left) and myself standing at a gate. Behind us is DSS36 one of the 34m antennas in the DSN network which is pointing to the upper right.

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