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Brian Swift
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Whatevs... JunoCam raw images ain't gonna process themsleves. Intel • fmr NASA JPL Radar Science SRTM • CDC Cybers anyone? • Santa Cruz (California)
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Wasn't expecting Kpop Demon Hunters Chili at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's chili cook-off today.
October 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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An intriguing hi-res photograph of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite with its 12m antenna fully unfurled in space. The pic was taken on Aug 21 by one of the earth observation satellites in the Vantor (formerly Maxar) Constellation.
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1. The NISAR image taken by one of the WorldView Legion satellites 2. Same image with vector info showing orientation of NISAR relative to its imaging targets. Source: Vantor
October 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Good turnout for #NoKings march in Santa Cruz California.
October 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Shooting through a little marine layer to #observethemoon from Santa Cruz California.
The moon
October 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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“Missed it by that much”
2008 Mazda 3 odometer reading 333334
October 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Vid of @spacejammie.bsky.social showing off cool Burning Man Informal Outreach projects youtu.be/dkGPpcjIsN8?...
Science Outreach at the Burning Man Art Festival (Jamie Molaro, 09/17/2025)
YouTube video by Planetary Science Institute
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September 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Also, join Candy for a discussion on JunoCam on the PSI-produced show CosmoQuest After Hours. This one is titled "JunoCam: Seeing Jupiter through the eyes of multitudes" and it airs Friday, Sept. 26 at 11am MST/2pm EDT. 🔭 🧪

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Xenomythology with Jason Batt
In this episode of CosmoQuest After Hours, we introduce you to Dr Candy Hansen, a Senior Scientist at the co-leader of the JunoCam investigation payload on t...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Tour of the Texas dark skies telescope ranch starfront.space www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktd...
A Tour of Starfront Observatories!
YouTube video by Bray Falls
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August 31, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The Burn Sequence Episode 3: Jeff Armstrong
YouTube video by United Launch Alliance
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August 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Congrats to JPL radar peeps and everyone responsible for REASON instrument and creation of radargram captured during Europa Clipper March 1 Mars flyby. Strip image at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... REASON (open access) paper at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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+1 to Anthropic for naming their agentic AI infra Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) which non-coincidentally also stands for Master-Control-Program, the protagonist in Tron. EOL
August 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it.

From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han

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A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.
July 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-sh...
NASA Shares How to Save Camera 370-Million-Miles Away Near Jupiter
An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Happy Moon Day. First photo of a human taken from surface of another world. Buzz Aldrin egressing from Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle on 7/20/1969. Full Rez at flic.kr/p/2gDbHUn
July 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Since JunoCam hasn't been feeling well for the last two perijove passes, here's a rewind back to Perijove 1, August 2016. Image JNCE_2016240_00C06160 acquired 2016-08-27T11:59 from altitude 73,009 km.
July 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Animated gif of Juno/JIRAM 3.5-micron observations of Io from December 27, 2024. This gif covers roughly 45 minutes of time as Juno passed Io at a distance of 74,444 km. The eruption at West Illyrikon was so intense that it saturated the detector and caused internal reflections within JIRAM's optics
July 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Now hear me out - interstellar spacecraft the size of a comet, covered in solid volatile fuel, with reflective panels for controlled heating and thrust during a close stellar flyby, falling from one system next...
July 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Texas dark skies telescope ranch (from x.com/astrofalls/s... )
Many remotely accessible amateur owned telescopes in row of buildings with slide-over roofs.
July 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory press conference live at www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Am...
First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook
YouTube video by Rubin Observatory
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June 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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San Jose Giants @ Modesto Nuts
June 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Happening now: NASA's Juno mission is closing in on Jupiter for the spacecraft's 73rd close encounter with the giant planet.

Follow along virtually in real time at eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_juno

See the latest real images from Juno at missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
June 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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JunoCam Jupiter images from PJ72. Exaggerated color/contrast. Full resolution version at flic.kr/p/2r9L22Y
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Cool Io flyover. "Dis Mons on Io – Revised Visualization of the ‘Steeple’ Mountain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rh9... with description at www.weareinquisitive.com/news/hidden-...
Dis Mons on Io – Revised Visualization of the ‘Steeple’ Mountain
YouTube video by Konstantin's video archive
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May 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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JunoCam is back! PJ72_21 Jupiter image, exaggerated color/contrast. Altitude 40325km, image data captured 2025-05-07T02:26 (51.3 hours ago)
May 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM