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Some rather gnarly looking rocks near the Mars Perseverance Rover, imaged yestersol (Sol 1799) using MastCam-Z.
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Beethoven Piano Concertos from Romania
Andrei Licaret directs Beethoven's concertos 2, 3 and 4 from the piano.
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
HiPOD: A Light Outcrop in Aurorae Chaos
This observation shows a light, layered outcrop in Aurorae Chaos. The surrounding material is much darker than this outcrop. We can also look for variations between the layers.
https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076804_1730
#Mars #science #NASA
March 13, 1969, Schweickart, Scott and McDivitt successfully conclude #Apollo9 with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean, just 4.5 nautical miles from their prime recovery ship the USS Guadalcanal.
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Navy frogman team prepares the #Apollo9 Spacecraft "Gumdrop", March 13, 1969
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So happy this video is available. I hadn't seen it before this. I recall that BBC World Service broadcast, though!
Great to see #AerospaceBristol celebrating the 40th anniversary of @science.esa.int #Giotto encounter with #HalleysComet - a mission that put @esa.int on the world stage and showcased the space engineering talent in UK and #Bristol. 👏👏👏 @ukspaceagency.bsky.social @cmundell.esa.int
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Once again: if Trump were a Russian agent actively attempting to bring about the downfall of the United States of America and aid Putin's Russia, what would he be doing differently?
Southern Hemisphere/Aonia Terra - Revolution 402 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/ruafTV
She pip at me.
The two episodes have been restored by BBC archivists and will be available next month on the broadcaster's streaming service.
https://to.pbs.org/4uykX7U
Also applies to not necessarily superrich people like 5 term senators and supreme court justifices.
I am a big fan of the First Doctor. That being said - I really wish we could find more Second Doctor eps. The folks who destroyed so many early eps seem to have disliked that incarnation.
If I had a time machine, I'd go back and save the lot.
🚨 EPISÓDIOS ENCONTRADOS 🚨
✨Dois episódios perdidos da década de 60 foram encontrados.
✨Os episódios, The Nightmare Begins e Devil’s Planet fazem parte do 3º serial, "The Daleks Master Plan". Escrito por Terry Nation e estrelando o 1º Doutor Willian Hartnell como o Doutor.
150 US soldiers have been injured, 5,000 more heading into Iran today. Trump is a coward, criminal, five-time draft dodging piece of shit sending your kids to war.
A cat waiting for his order in Istanbul 😂
You may have seen that a major update in our lawsuit challenging the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities went a bit viral this week.
Why? Because the outcome of this case affects a lot of people—not just historians.
Here’s what’s going on. 🧵
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We’re here to support libraries. Take action at action.everylibrary.org.
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So to review: Oil > $100 a barrel, ~30% increase at pump. Mortgages >6%. We replaced one Supreme Leader with his more hardline son, whose whole family we killed. We murdered ~160 girls. Everybody in world but Bibi is pissed at us. Spent more in 1 week on war than USAID costed for 6 months.
🛰️☄️ La sonde chinoise #Tianwen2, lancée en 2025, a parcouru à ce jour environ 700 millions de kilomètres et devrait atteindre l'astéroïde géocroiseur 2016HO3 en juillet (date non officielle).
📷 Selfie d'octobre 2025
Rappel de la mission : reves-d-espace.com/t...
THE WORLDWIDE FLAG OF ANTIFASCIST RESISTANCE
Remembering Douglas Rain, born March 13, 1928 and passed away November 11, 2018.
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It is a felony to steal someone’s private Social Security data and give it to a third party without consent.
Elon Musk's DOGE did that 350 million times.
350 MILLION FELONIES.
The Office of Inspector General at NASA has found several issues with Artemis' lunar landers, including their schedules, systems development speed, and astronaut usable systems
For @proximareport.bsky.social -> proximareport.com/articles/iss...
It’s almost inconceivable to talk about ESA’s early years without looking at the many firsts that the Giotto mission achieved in 1986, including first cometary encounter and first reactivation of a spacecraft. So that’s exactly what we are doing today 😊
A very special opening of material from the #ESAarchives celebrates the 40th anniversary of Giotto’s historic flyby of Comet Halley, in photos, images and documentation.
historicalarchives.esa.int/giotto-comet...