Alex Innanen

God forbid you try to perform....YUcard fraud? by having two extant cards for a whole week

Truly loved going to renew my YU card, them not letting me renew til i talked to the registrar, then the person I talked to going 'fill out this form', me being like 'I filled this form out three years ago' and them going 'yeah but you have to fill ot out again just for ✨vibes✨'

You're connecting the dots!

York is clearly in the pocket of Big Cell Phone. First they got rid of physical student cards, now theyre moving all their phones to a bold new 'mobile only' format...

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍

Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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This was the second ever thing I posted on bluesky, one Mars year ago.
Happy 7th Mars landiversary, Curiosity 🎉

An edited screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first part reads: "people who celebrate mars specific anniversaries of spacecraft landings are annoying pass it on." The second part reads: "FUCK this post and happy mars birth sol Curiosity!"

I spent way too long making this on my phone
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A grid of eight rows and five columns of images. Every image is of the Moon at different angles, zooms, and exposures.

Can you tell that it's International Observe the Moon Night?

A photo of the moon

I did sneak outside to observe her
#ObserveTheMoonNight
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A picture of Mars taken during astronomical twilight (the sun was 13° below the horizon). It shows a dimly lit reddish landscape with some hills at the horizon. Deimos, Mars' smaller moon shines with a small halo in the pale sky above.

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year.

It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭

Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4668-4674: Winding Our Way Along

by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University
science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi... #Mars @transmartian.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Trains can pass at any time, a passing train told me

A screenshot of a tumblr post by peacozy that reads "whenever i see the moon its like ok i want sox blurry pictures of that on my phone so bad"

A photo of a blurry, dim red crescent moon above city lights

You may need to turn up your phone brightness for this one

Meme that says "Died 2024, Born 2025: welcome back VIPER". On both sides of the image is a rendering of the VIPER rover on the lunar surface.

The full version of this mosaic (in "white-balanced" colours) is now available on the JPL Photojournal: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...

(You'll definitely want to click the link to fully appreciate the incredible detail!)

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

An A0 size poster titled "Examining Cloud Opacity and Morphology with MSL and TGO/CaSSIS". The poster is hung on a board labeled L32.

If you feel like making the trek out to the Lämpiö foyer (near Neptune) this evening, you can chat with me about clouds at L32!
#EPSCDPS2025

A photo of a faint red moon above some bright buildings in Helsinki

Engaged in some light lunar eclipse spotting on the first night of #EPSCDPS2025
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4624-4626: A Busy Weekend at the Boxwork - NASA Science Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4624-4626: A Busy Weekend at the Boxwork
Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto, Canada
@transmartian.bsky.social

Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 8, 2025
science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...

A photo of the pre-dawn sky with two bright planets (Venus, lower and brighter, and Jupiter) above two cranes.

If nothing else being up at 5 will let you see planets

Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills - NASA New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries.

www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...

Our JPL engineers continue to blow my mind with their talent. Squeezing every drop of science out of our wonderful rover that we can!

(h/t to @dougellison.bsky.social for making my late night request to acquire this Navcam postcard a reality. The view was too good!)

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

An image of a martian landscape, handcoloured on twelve sheets of paper. The colours range from pink (representing the brightest areas) to black (representing the darkest areas). The landscape is mostly blue and purple, representing a mostly flat area with some large buttes to the right side. At the bottom right corner, the back of the Curiosity rover can be seen. All twelve sheets of paper are taped together, then taped onto a white cinderblock wall. The colouring styles of each sheet are different, as they were all done by different people. Some are a series of horizontal lines, some are scribbled in, and some are fully coloured in.

Sometimes a group meeting can be seven grad students, three undergrads, a postdoc, and their advisor all working on Mariner 4 inspired art. (Original image: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2...)

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4602-4603: On Top of the Ridge - NASA Science Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4602-4603: On Top of the Ridge

Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto, Canada
Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
@transmartian.bsky.social

science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...

While I techhhnically don't need the code (I mostly just idly went 'huh I wonder how this is different than the packages I'm using') I am tempted to reach out anyway because I spent most of the morning on this rabbit hole (and dragging Conor with me)

A photograph of a groundhog standing upright on its hind legs with its front paws held under its chin

A photo of a groundhog looking to the right

Lunchtime companion

I went looking and I'm disappointed in past me that I neglected to get a picture of the actual literal tree someone had used to block that bridge

Eli saying "why is transgender uniquely an identity that cannot be spoken of historically" really sums up neatly why I love your trans history episodes so much!

They don't want you to know this, but this is actually what the ideal Mars mission looks like.

Solstice sunset, sped up 5x