"cut here"

Some good news from space, as the NASA-ISRO NISAR mission publishes its first synthetic aperture radar images of Earth. This spacecraft has a heckin' big antenna (a dish 12 meters across) for bouncing L- and S-band (25- and 10-cm) radio waves off the surface www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-is...

It seems like the beavers are maybe not big fans of permafrost
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I wonder how beavers feel about PhD research about permafrost...

I recommend saving a local copy of both the old and new versions.

Agreed. State and national level censoring and firewalls may be impractical for stopping 100% of all "undesirable" traffic... but it doesn't need to. It just has to stop *enough* to slow and stigmatize the free flow of info. Someone finding a workaround does not mean everyone does.

I think that depends on how the stories from the data are told, in conjunction with the incentives the leaders face for action (or inaction).

Bear is driving! How can that be?!?

Good luck, babe 😆

My friend's book debuts today, available via ebook or paperback! Check it out!

I am *so* excited to see this mission launch! Earlier this year I spoke with several #NISAR scientists about how this satellite is going to change the game, and it really is going to be a data powerhouse for understanding the Earth system. 🧪🛰️❄️🌳

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Liftoff! The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission has launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. #NISAR will scan the entire globe twice every 12 days to measure changes in Earth’s ecosystems, cryosphere, and land surface.

“It’s orbiting magic.” —Alex Gardner, NASAJPL

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I've been waiting for #NISAR to launch for many years... looking forward to what it can provide the world of earth observation!

Have a safe ride uphill!

Will the protagonist have to keep their sanity with the help of their robot friends?

I remember reading about comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacting Jupiter in the newspaper and seeing clips on the news. (I may still have some of those articles in my scrapbook!) Absolutely wild to see an impact scar on Jupiter the size of the Earth!

I thought about posting about exactly this yesterday.

Most EV guidance is "just charge at home/work." If that doesn't work, advice goes downhill quickly into "join your HOA board and change the policy" or "buy a different house" territory. Between family, work, and school... not practical for me.

#asteroid #Apophis, at naked-eye brightness (mag 3.1) races across Barcelona's night sky on the evening of Friday, April 13, 2029 as it comes closer to Earth than our geosynchronous satellites.

This is amazing, thank you

“Do you know of any challenge in the history of humankind that was successfully overcome that began with pessimism and defeatism?

There isn’t. So optimism is a choice.”

— Christiana Figueres, who knows what it looks like to tackle seemingly impossible challenge – and succeed!

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the engulfment of a planet by its star – thought to be the first observation of its kind!

Read more 👉 esawebb.org/images/plane...

🔭 🧪

Magnifiques aurores filmées depuis l'ISS par l'astronaute Don Pettit

Who do you really trust to carry the next message in a bottle?
And will anyone be left listening when it comes back?

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"