Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson

“Even today, when the planet is dark, there still is hope. Don’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing” Don't lose hope. Also, send Musk and Trump into space on a one-way ticket. 😍

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

Why oh why must I choose between thou two? There are few who could swing me away from #kyanite, but #taenite is one of them. So I will (heartbrokenly) vote for the spacerock #TeamTaenite #MinCup #MinCup25

The Cassini Saturn probe swept its cameras around #OTD in 2017 to collect some of its last images.

A few days later it would end its twenty year mission by plunging into Saturn's atmosphere, a fireball flashing across the sky at over 70,000 mph. 🧪 🔭

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

Also the civil servants who are fleeing NASA out of fear of more budget cuts. Instability is poison to scientific research.

We have to seriously consider the possibility that the muddy sediments of both Earth and Mars were inhabited by microorganisms more than three billion years ago, and that both groups of creatures were making their livings by eating and breathing similar things.

Our paper (led by Joel Hurowitz and with a large team of Mars 2020 scientists) describing potential signatures of past life on Mars was just published: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These roads are an underrated part of the basin experience. One highway gets to 4900 feet just a few miles past sea level at stovepipe wells.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Ohhh easy choice. If you need another reason to vote hematite: how about SPECULAR hematite? That's right, it has a sparkly variation!! #mincup25

I can't add a photo and a video, so I'll add a photo with an information card in a reply.

A striking thing reading about Norwegian resistance in WWII was, after reprisals put armed resistance on the back foot, the people still made life unbearably difficult for the occupiers with 10,000 tiny acts. Even if you can't sink the figurative battleship, you can still foul its hull and screws.

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Io in front of Jupiter. This is a color-composite made from images captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in red, green, and violet wavelengths on September 6, 1996. Io is the most volcanically-active world in our solar system.

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

sending you hugs. I completely understand this feeling.

Sea Level

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What a view captured yesterday by Curiosity

#Mars Sep. 1, 2025 - Sol 4647
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

2 hours left on the clock

oooh, the color shift across both sleeves and the body! Very nice!

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording