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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Real starlight, explained with AI ✨ M20, the Trifid Nebula: glowing gas, dark dust lanes and scattered starlight.

tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Andromeda, ~2.5 million light-years away ✨ 18 minutes of real starlight captured with iTelescope T26, processed by Codex Astra. An RGB view from 9 exposures, with a light final enhancement.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Eagle Nebula — brought to light by Codex Astra ✨ AI processing of 7 hours of real telescope observations. Custom SHO false colours, with star colours from RGB data. Data: iTelescope Processing: Codex Astra

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Neptune’s Great Dark Spot and companion clouds, seen by Voyager 2 on 22 August 1989. 📸 NASA/JPL/Voyager 2/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Clouds and shadows on Neptune, seen by Voyager 2 on 25 August 1989. 📸NASA/JPL/Voyager 2/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Neptune’s south polar region - Voyager 2, August 17, 1989. Enhanced processing highlights bright clouds and subtle atmospheric bands toward the south polar region and hints at a subtle central darkening, whose nature remains uncertain. 📸 NASA/JPL/Voyager 2/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Miranda - Voyager 2 RGB with two images, green and violet / enlargement - Images taken on 1986-01-24 / Partially enhanced OPUS ID: vg-iss-2-u-c2684411 vg-iss-2-u-c2684413 Credit : NASA/JPL/SETI/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mars, as seen by the Hope probe on August 21, 2023. Color-enhanced RGB composite created using the F635, F546, and F437 filters. Image credit : Emirates Mars Mission / EXI / UAE Space Agency / MBRSC / LASP / EMM Science Data Center / Thomas Thomopoulos

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Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / @tthomopoulos.bsky.social)

Cropped view of an extremely turbulent region in Jupiter's northern hemisphere with enhanced colours. Various shades of brown, orange, beige, and blue-green tint the countless cyclones and turbulent weather systems in the area, some of which may be as large as an Earth continent.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The North Pole of Mars, as seen by the Hope probe on May 29, 2023 - orbit 380. Enhanced RGB (F635, F546, F437), cropped and enlarged ×4. Image credit : Emirates Mars Mission / EXI / UAE Space Agency / MBRSC / LASP / EMM Science Data Center / Thomas Thomopoulos

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · 23/09/2026

This #JunoCam image captures Jupiter's dynamic northern cyclones. It was taken on July 16, 2024 at 7:20 a.m. PDT (10:20 a.m. EDT) as the Juno spacecraft performed its 63rd close flyby of Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mars Curiosity - Mastcam - Sol 5010 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mars Curiosity - Mastcam - Sol 5013 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sol 5013 on Mars. More than 14 years of exploration, and the journey continues: the layered terrain of Mount Sharp as seen through Curiosity’s Mastcam. 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Clouds Along a Jovian Front — Jupiter PJ37 📸NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Europa 📸NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For this one, the processing is tailored to the image and guided by its own RGB strip, with AI assistance. I’m not retraining a neural network on a collection of HiRISE images. It’s still an experimental approach 🙂

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thanks! 🙂 It’s an AI-assisted experiment using the original RGB strip as a color reference to extend the palette into the monochrome areas, with local corrections. The aim is to preserve the terrain and textures. Colors outside the strip are inferred.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ESP_068260_2565 - Frosty Sand Dunes of Mars 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A new HiRISE color extrapolation test on Mars. The original colors are preserved more accurately. 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 805 Mastcam-Z images with enhanced colors, derived from calibrated RAD products Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 812 Mastcam-Z image with enhanced colors, derived from a calibrated RAD product Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks for the reference. I wasn’t aware of Allen’s 1995 study.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 1965 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 1964 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 1964 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 1964 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mars Perseverance - Mastcam Z - Sol 1964 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In Greek myth, Atlas bears the heavens; Argo carries the Argonauts. Here, ATLAS carries the material weight of Mars exploration: ACL landers, habitats and infrastructure deployed ahead of the crew. A speculative concept grounded in plausible mission logic.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Atlas carries the infrastructure. Argo carries the crew. ARGO is a speculative Earth–Mars transport with a detachable MDAV for descent/ascent, while the transit habitat, radiation shelter and propulsion remain in orbit. Concept art, not an engineering blueprint.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Atlas and Argo Atlas carries a fleet of ACL landers and pre-deploys surface infrastructure. Argo transports the crew. Together they form a speculative Mars architecture - an artist’s concept grounded in plausible mission logic.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ATLAS / ACL 🚀 A speculative Mars logistics system: ATLAS stays in orbit while detachable ACLs handle entry, landing and ascent. The same aeroshell supports two roles: cargo delivery or a pressurized human habitat. One carrier, many missions.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Absolutely, the lunar environment makes autonomy much harder. My point is not that it would be easy, but that the cost of permanent human presence could create a much stronger incentive to develop highly autonomous industry there.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You're right for now, but on Earth the constraints are very different. On the Moon, any permanent human presence changes the equation. That could make a much higher level of automation economically viable and create a strong incentive to achieve it.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Moon does not have to become a human colony. Instead, its first major role could be that of an autonomous industrial world, producing structures and materials for space exploration. No permanent crews. Just machines building the infrastructure for humanity's next worlds.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Off-Earth : a speculative atlas of human habitats A first concept for a future human settlement on Mars: a partially buried habitat protected by the surrounding regolith, built around a large pressurized central dome. First step in a project exploring architecture beyond Earth.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yes, broadly. I keep the original grayscale for the terrain structure and use the central RGB strip to guide the color extrapolation.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A new HiRISE color extrapolation test on Mars. The original RGB strip crosses only part of this crater. I used it as a chromatic reference to extend color across the full scene while preserving terrain and relief. 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Second HiRISE color extrapolation test. The RGB strip crosses only part of this crater. I used it to extend color across the entire crater while preserving terrain and relief. Beyond the strip, colors are inferred—not measured. 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A first experiment in HiRISE color extrapolation on Mars. I used the original central RGB strip as a chromatic reference to extend color across the surrounding map-projected image, while preserving the original terrain and relief. 📸 NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona/Thomas Thomopoulos

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Galileo observing Jupiter, Padua, January 1610. 🔭 Photographic reconstruction based on period portraits of Galileo, his surviving 1609–1610 telescope, and historical records of his observations. An attempt to visualize one of the nights that changed our view of the Solar System.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Autre lecture Sentinel-2 du 26 juillet, en fausses couleurs infrarouges : la végétation apparaît en rouge, tandis que les vastes zones sombres font ressortir les surfaces brûlées ou fortement dégradées. Les nuages masquent une partie du secteur.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sentinel-2, 26 juillet 2026 — vue en infrarouge à ondes courtes (SWIR). Les vastes teintes brun-rouge font ressortir les surfaces fortement affectées par l’incendie au nord du bassin d’Arcachon.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Zoom NASA FIRMS à l’ouest de Cestas : plusieurs détections thermiques restent visibles entre le bois de Lubec, La Renardière et Le Domaine Louis, d’après les passages satellitaires disponibles du 26 juillet.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Les passages satellitaires du 26 juillet montrent encore de nombreuses détections thermiques au nord du bassin d’Arcachon, autour de Saumos, du Temple et sur l’axe Landes des Nargues–bois de Lubec. D’autres anomalies restent visibles vers Biscarrosse.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Image acquise lors du passage de NOAA-21 en milieu d’après-midi le 26 juillet. Elle montre une forte couverture nuageuse et un voile grisâtre s’étendant vers l’est depuis la zone des incendies. Les pixels colorés signalent les anomalies thermiques détectées au cours de la journée

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Copernicus EFFIS, 26 juillet : en rouge, l’estimation satellitaire des surfaces parcourues par les incendies autour du bassin d’Arcachon et de Biscarrosse. Il s’agit de l’empreinte cumulée du feu, pas de zones entièrement en flammes.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

EUMETView à 07h10 : plusieurs signatures thermiques restent visibles au nord du bassin d’Arcachon. Le signal le plus oriental se situe à l’ouest de Cestas, au sud-ouest de Saint-Jean-d’Illac et nettement à l’ouest de Bordeaux.

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tthomopoulos @tthomopoulos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Vers 7h, NASA FIRMS montre une nette extension des détections thermiques vers l’est, jusqu’au bois de Lubec, en direction de l’agglomération bordelaise. Elles se situent encore à l’ouest de Cestas et au sud de Saint-Jean-d’Illac.

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