Daniel Pomarède

Not only do my Patreon patrons see historic NASA public info publications every Sunday - I also post historic Russian, European, and Japanese spaceflight public info publications.

The Soviet Novosti publishing house published this one in 1979.

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ESCAPADE spacecraft are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail With their instruments now fired up and recording data, the twin ESCAPADE satellites are undertaking a test run before they head to Mars later this year. On Wednesday, Mar. 4, they will plow throug…

ESCAPADE spacecraft are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail

Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes - operated by @ucbssl.bsky.social - are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth’s magnetic field.

www.ssl.berkeley.edu/escapade-mag...

🧪🔭 #ESCAPADE

A composite image acquired by one of the mast-mounted cameras on Perseverance Rover that is exploring the planet Mars. The image looks slightly down onto the front of the Mars rover and its workspace just in front of the rover. The workspace contains a craggy and dark grey rocky outcrop. The exposed rock surfaces contain several fractures, with its near horizontal surfaces being peppered by a fine deposit of ocher coloured dust. Beyond the workspace are several other dark rocky outcrops that are surrounded by a mix of regolith (small crushed rock fragments, sand and pebbles). The view stretches to the horizon and the rolling hills that are northeast of the rover's current location, just outside Jezero crater. On the rover's dusty deck we can observe the stowed robotic arm. At the end of the arm is a turret that contains a large percussion drill, a small tank of compressed gas, as well as a number of science instruments and cameras. The rover arrived at this location after a short drive on March 5, 2026 (mission Sol 1792) it has been exploring this region for just over 5 earth years.

Meanwhile on Mars:
Perseverance rover completed a 15 minute drive to site 87.0 on March 5, 2026 (Sol 1792). This post-drive roughly processed image was assembled / cropped from 6 post-drive NavCam tiles. I'll add the drive details and updated location map in […]

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Pink sunrise sky looking at old tenement blocks. The moon is just setting over some chimney stacks and a seagull has positioned itself perfectly right in front of it.

Good morning Moon 😍
Happy weekend everyone. 🔭

Imaged from suburb of Los Angeles with GSO 10" f/4 imaging Newtonian, asi1600mm, and ZWO filters. Approx. 2 hours integration.

IC 1396 "Elephant Trunk" Nebula in SHO (Hubble Palette) - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2m8Jm1w

Mars Perseverance Sol 1792: Right Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced. Image captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover using its Mastcam-Z instrument on Mars. The scene features a barren, sandy terrain with scattered rocks of varying sizes and shapes. The rocks, some jagged and others smooth, are dispersed across the surface, casting subtle shadows in the Martian light. The landscape is typical of the Jezero Crater region, showcasing the arid and rocky environment of the Red Planet. Details: Source: NASA Mars 2020 Mission (Perseverance Rover) Instrument: Mastcam-Z Location: Jezero Crater, Mars March 5, 2026 (Sol 1792), 11:31:31 Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Jackie Branc

🔴 #Mars #Perseverance Sol 1792: Right #Mastcam-Z Camera / enhanced

March 5, 2026 (Sol 1792), 11:31:31

source image: Mars_Perseverance_ZR0_1792_0826020760_223EBY_N0860700ZCAM09843_1100LMJ

Image Credit: #NASA/ #JPL-Caltech/ #ASU/ Jackie Branc

#RedPlanet

Le château d'Ōsaka.

Ce voyage de 2 semaines nous conduira à Ōsaka et Kushimoto où nous rencontrerons des lycéens japonais avec qui nous échangeons régulièrement. Le lycée de Kushimoto propose notamment une formation aux sciences spatiales avec des enseignants formés à la Jaxa.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

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Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

NASA smashed a spacecraft into one of a pair of asteroids. the impact shifted the pair’s orbit around the sun:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/s...

Hi Space Science Lab, the link leads to "page not found". Cheers, D.

Curiosity proudly brandishing her instrumented turret, somewhere on the eastern edge of the boxwork unit. What a sight, looks like scifi!

This is just another small part of the Sol 4821 Mastcam 360° panorama. #Mars 🧪🔭

Good move!

www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...

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De Vannes aux portes de Mars : un voyage scolaire exceptionnel au Japon Financement participatif organisé par OGEC ST PAUL-ST GEORGES 56 - Voyage scolaire de 29 lycéens au Japon en oct. 2026 pour découvrir la culture nippone et assister au décollage d’une mission martienn...

🚀 Assister au lancement de la mission martienne MMX depuis l'île de Tanegashima : c'est l'objectif un peu fou du voyage scolaire que j'organise pour 29 élèves.
Forcément cela a un coût, aussi je fais appel à votre générosité pour nous aider à réaliser ce projet !
www.helloasso.com/associations...

A mosaic of Mastcam images captured yesterday by Percy

#Mars March 5, 2026 - Sol 1792
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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Canadarm2 Grips Cargo Spacecraft, Spacewalk Prep and Biology Continue - NASA A JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) cargo spacecraft is in the grasp of the Canadarm2 robotic arm following its detachment from the International Space Station’s Harmony module on Thursday. Th...

International Space Station: Canadarm2 Grips Cargo Spacecraft, Spacewalk Prep and Biology Continue

www.nasa.gov/blogs/spaces... 🧪

Curiosity proudly brandishing her instrumented turret, somewhere on the eastern edge of the boxwork unit. What a sight, looks like scifi!

This is just another small part of the Sol 4821 Mastcam 360° panorama. #Mars 🧪🔭

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of ochre toned photographies capturing a Martian landscape, with a massive rock occupying the central stage, and a sandy hill in the background. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

Martian landscape captured yesterday in Stereo3D by the Perseverance rover

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

#Mars Mar. 5, 2026 - Sol 1792 🧪🔭
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Soon, East Prov RI

Same view, but make it 3D

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

#Mars 🧪🔭

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social

a man with a measuring tape around his neck is saying you can 't run from your destiny ALT: a man with a measuring tape around his neck is saying you can 't run from your destiny

It’s like I’m destined to give any Europa talk on a Th. at about 10:30 am this year. Got assigned the same day/time slot for my talks for LPSC (ML work) and AbSciCon (convection work). So please come by and take a listen. Also celebrate my birthday on Mon at LPSC!

Excerpts from a NASA public info publication in my collection. This one, from December 1976, is a special issue of the VIKING PROJECT BULLETIN, a newsletter NASA mailed out free upon request.

A nice relic of pre-Internet days.

I post one of these in its entirety on my Patreon every Sunday.

Crossword: March 2026

Crossword by Physics Today

physicstoday.aip.org/news/crosswo... 🧪

New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated installations within the United States — one in Hanford Washington and the other in Livingston, Louisian...

New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes.

www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo202...

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Same view, but make it 3D

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.

#Mars 🧪🔭

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social

Un superbe panorama saisi par le rover Curiosity la semaine dernière vers les reliefs de la région des yardangs.

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, acquired by Perseverance on March 3, 2026, on the 1790th sol (martian day) of her mission. The rover casts her shadow on the foreground. A small nearby rocky mound occupies the centre of the image. A landscape of soft hills is seen in the background.

Martian vista with shadow selfie, captured two days ago by Perseverance

#Mars 🧪🔭

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, acquired by Perseverance on March 3, 2026, on the 1790th sol (martian day) of her mission. The rover casts her shadow on the foreground. A small nearby rocky mound occupies the centre of the image. A landscape of soft hills is seen in the background.

Martian vista with shadow selfie, captured two days ago by Perseverance

#Mars 🧪🔭

📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social

Image of the NGC 2244 core in the Rosette Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The image reveals a dense field of stars, including brown dwarfs and free-floating planetary-mass objects. The observation was made using the NIRCam instrument with filters: F115W, F335M, F150W-F162M, F140M, F182M, F144W, F360M, and F300M. This data is part of program #4545, led by Principal Investigator Mark McCaughrean. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Jackie Branc.

1/2🧵 🔭🧪 4545 | NGC 2244 core #JWST

Brown dwarfs & free-floating planetary mass objects in the Rosette Nebula: imaging
2025-03-02

PI: Mark McCaughrean

NIRCam: F115W,F335M,F150W-F162M,F140M,F182M,F144W,F360M,F300M

Credit: #NASA/ #ESA/ #CSA/ #STScI/ Jackie Branc

#browndwarf #NGC2244 #Rosettenebula

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4818-4824: Thinking Out of the Boxwork - NASA Science Written by Ashley Stroupe, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4818-4824: Thinking Out of the Boxwork

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

#Mars 🧪🔭