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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

How can an ordinary clam (well, actually more than 1,600 of these shells) reveal what the fjords on Svalbard looked like thousands of years ago? 🧵👇

Beautiful left valve of Mya truncata from Svalbard, approximately 10,000 years old

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Just wow. What a beautiful picture! Thanks crew of Artemis II!

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I still can't believe this. WE ARE GOING TO THE MOON! Finally, after so many years... What a time to be alive 🥹. GO Artemis II!

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Take a look at these whale remains. They belong to a creature that once got stranded on a beach and couldn’t make it back to the sea. Except this beach is now several hundred meters inland and dozens of meters above sea level. How is that possible? And why does it matter? New paper alert! 🙂 👇 🧵

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Wandering through hazy volcanic landscape 🥰.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If you’re less than 25 years old, you never experienced a situation in which all the people was present on the Earth at any time! Since today 25 tears ago the Expedition 1 in the International Space Station began! What a feat for the whole humankind 🥰. 🚀🧑‍🚀

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

New book out soon! 📖 (Unfortunately only in Czech) Planet of Melting Ice by Zdeněk Zvonek brings together 19 interviews with scientists from all sorts of fields — from biology to geology to social science — all united by one thing: their work in the polar regions. 🧊 👇🧵

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It’s good to be back around the glaciers 🥰.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Super interesting story about the new interstellar object - 3I/ATLAS 👇.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

He was soooo ahead of his time…

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Not only the Prague planetarium have the most modern LED projection in the world. They also do have these awesome mirrors on toilets! How cool is that?! 😍

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is an awesome accomplishment by our former student! So happy for him 🥹. @esa.int

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Mickey Mouse Spotted on Mercury! - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/bXjnXB

NASA image acquired: June 03, 2012

This scene is to the northwest of the recently named crater Magritte, in Mercury's south. The image is not map projected; the larger crater actually sits to the north of the two smaller ones. The shadowing helps define the striking "Mickey Mouse" resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury's long geologic history.

This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-incidence-angle base map. The high-incidence-angle base map is a major mapping activity in MESSENGER's extended mission and complements the surface morphology base map of MESSENGER's primary mission that was acquired under generally more moderate incidence angles. High incidence angles, achieved when the Sun is near the horizon, result in long shadows that accentuate the small-scale topography of geologic features. The high-incidence-angle base map is being acquired with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel.

The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MESSENGER acquired 88,746 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is now in a yearlong extended mission, during which plans call fo...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

What a joke. If Trump really wanted America First then he wouldn't have proposed absolutely massacring NASA's budget. It's all bullshit.

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Ted Stryk @tedstryk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

May the 4th be with you! (Mimas, moon of Saturn, Voyager 1, 1980)

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Happy B-Day Hubble! #OTD 35 years ago Hubble launched onboard space shuttle Discovery STS-30. Keep those pictures coming ❤️🔭.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I can’t fucking comment on this. Every last one of them, every Russian must be destroyed.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Cool pictures of Luca Parmitano during the training in Orion mockup with his NASA collegaues. They were practicing recovery procedures for the Artemis II astronauts for next year. It is nice to see the @esa.int patch on Orion space suit! I guess Luca is first in the line for ESA Artemis seat. 🚀

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hello Crew-11! 👋 I am so happy for Zena Cardman. After getting bumped from Crew-9 she is finally going! And again as a commander. Polar scientists turned astronauts are the best!

From left are Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Commander NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Pilot NASA astronaut Mike Fincke. Credit: NASA

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🥹 good bye dear Gaia! You were the best. Feel for you @janamulacova.bsky.social

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

China is starting to be serious space explorer. Meanwhile NASA could loose 50% of its science budget (planetary exploration included). What about Europe? We should throttle up!!

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Have you ever seen something like this?! 🤯

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Very cool paper from my dear friend Jeník! Check it 👇.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Just how cool is that? Sun eclipse from the Moon! By Blue Ghost lander @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Beautiful new pictures from @esa.int Hera spacecraft of Mars and its moon Deimos! Hera is on its way to Dimorphos - a small moon of asteroid Didymos. The other spacecraft - DART - smashed to this moon few years ago to test, if we can (unlike dinosaurs) defend ourselves against the asteroid impact!

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It looks like a dog that came back from a vet visit. And just like with the dog, this collar will protect the new SPHEREx space telescope. After a series of delays, it finally successfully launched today! THREAD 🧵👇

The SPHEREx space telescope before the launch

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

She’s sleeping again 🥹. I think Intuitive Machines should put the legs on her side next time. Two times in a row she ended on her belly! Poor Athena. Such a nice science mission and now it’s the end…

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

There are reports The White House is considering a 50% cut to NASA’s science programs, and 25% of its overall budget, which would be catastrophic for both current and planned missions. But, there is still time for the administration to reconsider. Read our full statement ⬇️

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The Planetary Society: reported cuts to NASA would amount to an…

The Planetary Society, the world’s largest independent space interest organization, issued a statement in response to recent reports that the White House…

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is just SO SAD!!!! The display case of US science is going straight to the toilet. Just appaling.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

My beloved wife has a new paper! 😊

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Scott Kelly @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Facts: Putin is a dictator and murderer. Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting for their lives. America used to stand up against tyrants. This is not who we are as a nation. Disgraceful.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is beyond ridiculous. And brutally disgusting and disrespectful to actual great human being and awesome astronaut Andy Mogensen from @esa.int.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot…

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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Changes in NASA's workforce, by year, since 1959. Today will mark the largest involuntary reduction in staffing since the end of Apollo. The difference is that, right now, NASA is trying to spin up a Moon program instead of end one.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

For anyone interested about polar science - check this profile of our Centre for Polar Ecology. ❤️👇

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are expected to do an EVA this Thursday. I guess they did not expect to go outside the ISS when they launched onboard Starliner last June... 😆 Awesome team!

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A part of Antarctica's history is now forever changed. The best and cutest field camp in the Dry Valleys – the famous Lake Bonney Camp – is gone. Well, not entirely gone, just moved a bit further uphill due to Lake Bonney itself.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Very interesting photo by Luca Parmitano from his IG account just dropped. I guess that first assigment by ESA for the Artemis program is done deal?! 🚀👨‍🚀

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Daniel Machacek @danielmachacek.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Mosaics of Titan's surface from DISR imager onboard Huygens probe 20 years ago (2005/01/14). All of them have 2000×2000 pixels (maximum for Bluesky) and they cover areas 64×64, 16×16, 4×4 and 1×1 km. Resolution is 32, 8, 2 and 0.5 meters/pixel. Credit: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona/D. Machacek.

Mosaic of Titan's surface from DISR imager onboard Huygens probe at 32 meters per pixel.

Mosaic of Titan's surface from DISR imager onboard Huygens probe at
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Mosaic of Titan's surface from DISR imager onboard Huygens probe at
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Mosaic of Titan's surface from DISR imager onboard Huygens probe at 0.5 meters per pixel.

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Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

JWST observations of the ice giant Uranus over 1 year! Full size, more info & single images: flic.kr/p/2pUN7Ec 🔭 Credit Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY Raw Data: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI 3 Frames 2023-02-06, 2023-09-04 PI: Klaus Pontoppidan, JPL 2024-02-06 PI: Naomi Rowe-Gurney, RAS

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Voyage of the Moons This is a video I made in 2018 showing moons Europa and Io out in front of Jupiter then Titan with Saturn. Made with still imagery taken by NASA’s Cassini mission. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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