Peace and love from planet Mars (Curiosity NavCam imaging from the afternoon of Sol 4623, August 8, 2025)
Would like to point out there's a section in the EO issued yesterday that might outright bar trans people from obtaining federal research grants.
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Spotted a cool rock on Mars on Wednesday
Today’s moment awe: this actual photograph of Mars. This one particularly moves me. Somehow, the atmosphere and play of light and shadow on the surface make it look *real*. Like a place I could go to. And stand on. Not an abstract concept seen only through the eyes of robots. An actual *place*.
HHS intends to remove trans health care from the Essential Health Benefits of the ACA/Obamacare; insurers will no longer be required to provide coverage.
The public comment period ends April 11th; please help by leaving a comment against this change?
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The team at ESA mission control has initiated Gaia's final manoeuvre. The spacecraft is now moving away from the second Lagrange point to prevent it interfering with any current or future missions near this scientifically valuable point in space.
#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover
Mars Perseverance Sol 1457: Left Navigation Camera (Navcam)
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
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Ahh, this turned out beautifully. I was kinda surprised when I heard it was going to be an 8x2 mosaic, but wow, I'm so happy they went for it!
I can never get tired of 3D outcrop models with the amazing MAHLI images onboard Curiosity! 😍
Here a small eroded surface revealing probable climbing ripples.
📸raw @NASAJPL archive
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The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
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Sunset on the Moon, from a photo released today in the NASA/Firefly Aerospace press conference. I have color balanced the original to get rid of the green hue near the center, which is a camera artifact. We see the overexposed inner Zodiacal Light looming above the bright horizon 'rim lighting'.
You won’t see this in the nyt… At least 12 peer-reviewed studies that support gender care as safe and beneficial, and support trans inclusion in sports have been ignored by the nyt over the past year
The Cass Review only exists because transphobic politicians were angry that all the actual scientific studies kept on contradicting their ideology and commissioned a report specifically to get the outcome they wanted. Needless to say, that renders it, among other things, invalid as a study.
Had a wonderful time at the orchid exhibition last night! Super vibrant colors everywhere
Hmm, this seems like one of the darker lunar eclipses I've seen
love paying 75% of the in-person registration to get like 20% of the networking benefits
I'm not really sure what happened. Really sucks though - there are myriad issues with the virtual poster session, and it's frustrating to see barriers put up against people trying to communicate their science where the eyeballs are in any way they can.
lol sounds like my attempt to present at my poster via livestream got shut down :(
I'd definitely be interested to chat at some point, but unfortunately already have plans for tomorrow night (got tickets to an orchid show at the botanical gardens)
I believe the setup on his end is a tablet connected to a hotspot set up on a stand in the poster hall, and I'll do a video call in through google meet. Not sure if it'll work, but we thought it was worth giving it a shot
Misson: #HERA
12 March 2025 gravity-assist
Target: #DEIMOS #MARS
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ESA/JAXA/j. Roger
I couldn't write an #LPSCHaiku I was happy with within the 5/7/5 structure. So I borrowed the related tanka form (5/7/5/7/7) for a little more room to work.
In ancient rock slide: // Sulfur, in element form // encases rubble // and spreading atoms yonder, // clothes rocks in myriad forms.
“My ability to feed email text into LLMs is why I earn $6 million a year while adjuncts earn $35,000”
If you need your cloud fix, you can head on over to my #LPSC2025 poster and hear about the newest addition to the Alex family of projects
What would Deimos look like to an astronaut in space around Mars? None of Hera's instruments are equivalent to the naked human eye, but here is the science team's first attempt. The 'saddle' between two peaks of Deimos shows up as a shadow
Ooh, this is a really neat presentation! It's mind-boggling to think there's a population of asteroids that are actually boulders blown off the Moon by impacts!
Carlos and I worked out this approach last month, so we didn't plan for this, but his poster is *literally* right next door (I'm at 145, he's at 146). Be sure to check out his work on using new clustering algorithms to identify geochemically distinctive terrains on Mars from gamma ray spectroscopy!
Interested in elemental sulfur on Mars? Check out my #LPSC2025 poster this evening, where I look at the deposit from scales small to big! I am not actually in person, but with the help of my friend Carlos Gary-Bicas, I'm hoping to have a virtual presence! Stop by and say hi if you get a chance!
Sorry I didn't get to Zoom, but I wanted to say Mt. Mercou looked fantastic. I spent like half an hour looking around the sketchfab model
Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
