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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 4h

Very interested in what you learn

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 8h

Juice xkcd.com/3308/

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people, one with a ponytail, sitting and typing at terminals opposite each other. A sign on the wall reads “Juice Mission Control,” with JUICE in huge letters.] PERSON 1: Jupiter Icy Moons Exploder checkin is complete. All systems nominal. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail. [People turn to look at each other.] PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: Jupiter Icy Moons *Explorer*. (3) [Person 1 turns back to his terminal.] (4) PERON 1: Control, everything is fine, but I need to schedule an urgent spacecraft update. [Person 2 facepalms] PERSON 2: Oh no.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 9h

As the days go by Water flowing underground

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 9h

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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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 9h

Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #Yosemite

This webcam, located at about 8,000 feet in elevation, shows Half Dome and the surrounding high country.
This webcam image is provided courtesy of Yosemite Conservancy.

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 13h

#Artemis II - Exploration Mission-2 2026-04-02 Inst: opnav pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/atlas/... Artemis II/ NASA JSC / ESRS / j. Roger

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, it IS desolate, and Mars is a piss-poor replacement for Earth. But this scene is also wondrous, and miraculous in the sense that we can even witness it.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 14h

Right? It IS desolate, but also wondrous.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! But it's strictly BYOO2 (bring your own oxygen).

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 15h

I think this has to be rage bait, but good goddamn. Even if just for the hate-clicks, what kind of misanthropic asshole do you have to be to proudly dismiss reading to an infant, one of the unalloyed joys of parenthood? Parenthood "hits different" when you *parent*

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 21h

Solar Orbiter tracks the origin of the Sun's mysterious magnetic switchbacks ☀️ Back in 2022, Solar Orbiter spotted a kink in the solar wind’s magnetic field known as a ‘switchback’ and confirmed it to be S-shaped: something scientists had predicted but not seen directly. 🔭 🧪

An image showing the Sun glowing yellow in the top right, with a blue S-shaped burst extending to the left

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow, I just discovered this fabulous reprocessing of the Voyager approach movies by Ian Regan. Go give it a watch! #planetsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn6t...

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10 Jovian Days: The Voyager 1 Jupiter Rotation Movie

YouTube video by Ian Regan

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 16h

High clouds on Mars again 😆 #NASA's #Mars rover #Curiosity 2026-10-07 Sol 5037: Right Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1... NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not *everyone* was moved. Here are some of my favorite actual comments we got on the official accounts. Rather desolate. Looks depressing. Just another desert. With apologies to Subpar Parks:

Poster roughly in national park style showing the yardangs of Gale Crater. Text reads: rather desolate

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

From NASA The Space Apps Challenge is NASA's annual hackathon for anyone with an interest in space to address real-world challenges. This year, there are several Red Planet-related projects. It's a great chance to get involved with Mars science, engineering, storytelling, and more! bit.ly/4hgFZly

NASA Space Apps Challenge graphic showing five thumbnails of scenes in space representing 14 different challenges in the program

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Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Dean Barnes)

Wide shot of Jupiter, taken from high above its southern hemisphere. The angle created by the Sun-Jupiter-camera system shows Jupiter as a distant crescent shape, showing many of its cloud bands.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, OMB is using the apportionment mechanism to stop funding. Here it is the Smithsonian. I would note: they are not legally binding if exercised out of the scope of the President’s authority.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'll never forgive MAGA for the cruelty, the hatred, the regression to fascism...or for making anyone associated with the human quest for knowledge to have to listen to the stupidest motherfucker of all time keynote a science conference.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(And that using his official agency social accounts to do it is intensely cringe. And I'm pretty sure illegal.)

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I know he's *far* from the worst appointee in Washington, and I concede he's done some good things. But I just think the NASA administrator and the world's most obedient simp for the most anti-science, anti-public sector, anti-human decency president of all time should be two different people.

social media post showing Trump talking with Elon Musk, whom Trump is giving the National Medal of Science

Isaacman praising Marc Rubio in a social post

Isaacman inexplicably reposting a Trump social media post about a speech at a shipyard

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As a test of planetary defense, NASA's DART mission moved an asteroid in 2022. Now ESA's Hera mission will go back to the scene to study the asteroid's binary system in detail and how the test affected it.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 06/10/2026

Bepi and Mio are almost at Mercury, and they would love to hear from you 💌 Send them a #WelcomeToMercury message for a chance to win a trip to ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, this December. Wish them well 👉 esa.int/WelcomeToMercury 🫶 🔭

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

God's cursor spotted on Mars. www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_07...

A desert landscape on Mars seen from above. Among hills of layered rock are several sand dunes. One of them is shaped like a triangle with a small line below it, almost like the appearance of a pointer icon on a computer screen.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 07/10/2026

It's #Spacetober day 7, Venus. #SciArt #spaceart Artwork of the Venera 9 spacecraft on the surface of Venus. The Venera probes were a series of ten successful missions sent to Venus by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Venera 9 was launched on 8 June 1975. 1/2

A, hazy, yellow and rocky landscape, barren of life. The surface of Venus. Left of centre, sitting on an outcrop of rock, is the Venera 9 lander. There is lightning in the sky, although whether Venus has lightning is disputed.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very sad to hear that Margaret Hamilton has passed away. Here's a short thread about her role in the Apollo mission, and her lesser-known work on the simulations that led to the discovery of Chaos Theory. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, pointer is the right term, I know.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

God's cursor spotted on Mars. www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_07...

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 07/10/2026

hey 🫵👁️ your art is awesome. keep making it.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Artemis II camera bundles have hit the PDS! pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/art...

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PDS Imaging Node Home Page

Online data volumes from NASA missions.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today, on the anniversary of the 1st photo of the Moon's far side (in 1959 from the USSR's Luna 3 probe), NASA released the preliminary science report and data from the #ArtemisII mission in April. Re-live the #Moon joy: science.nasa.gov/feature/arte... 🧪🔭🌘

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Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report - NASA Science

What did four NASA astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon? Here's your guide to Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 07/10/2026

Mars’s oddest cloud may be even odder than we thought 🤔 Every spring and summer in Mars’s southern hemisphere a spectacular cloud emerges: the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, the most visually striking cloud on the Red Planet. 🔭 🧪

Tan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. On the right is a ring of concentric circles that indicate a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just above the cloud itself. CREDIT: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

Tan-coloured horizontal rectangle showing part of the surface of Mars imaged by an orbiting satellite. Above the curved horizon is space. To the lower right of the image is a volcano. Stretching to the left of the volcano is a long wisp of white cloud, which seems to emanate from the volcano. We also see the shadow of the cloud just below the cloud itself. CREDIT: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For too many days to count, too many days to even comprehend, the sun rose in this place every morning. The only difference is now someone is watching.

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hudson Point, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument #NPS #NationalParkService #GrandCanyon-Parashant

Elevation: 6,724 Feet
View looking west across the Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness.

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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial) @dscovr-epic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

8:48:15 PM on Sunday, October 4, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

Earth from space, centered on the North Pacific Ocean, captured on Sunday, October 4, 2026 at 8:48:15 PM by NASA's DSCOVR EPIC camera.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/10/2026

Since Trump and his ilk came back to power he's been working to cut science across the federal government. This withdrawal from an international partnership is directly the result of that. NASA has little choice, but it still sucks—especially since I am (or, was) on the VenSAR science team. (2/2)

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 07/10/2026

At today's National Academies CAPS (Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences), NASA planetary leadership all but confirmed that the agency is no longer providing the VenSAR radar for the @esa.int ESA EnVision mission. This isn't a surprise, but it's still hugely disappointing. (1/2)

An artist's rendering of the EnVision spacecraft. The antennae on the upper right part of the main spacecraft bus represents the VenSAR instrument.

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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got my images off the camera and did a little cropping and "timelapse-ing". Occultation of Jupiter by the Moon this morning seen from Williamsburg VA. Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm, 1.4TC. Cropped in Darktable, Animated in VideoPad.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From NASA This summer, NASA scientists spent six weeks chasing fire clouds. 🔥☁️ Using planes and trucks, the team studied several dangerous, smoke-infused clouds generated by wildfires. The data will help predict where these clouds may form and improve climate and atmospheric models.

Aerial photograph of a fire-generated cloud. Near the ground, dark brown smoke shows the location of the Widemouth 2 fire in Utah. The smoke rises high into the atmosphere and spreads out. Above the smoke layer are puffy white clouds, including a puff of very tall clouds. Credit: INSPYRE / Bernadett Weinzierl

Photograph of NASA’s ER-2 aircraft on the runway. In the foreground, a person holds two orange lights to signal to the plane. The sunset is orange and pink in the background. Credit: NASA / Milan Loiacono

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