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OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," has died at the age of 97, NASA said on Friday.

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Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

The Imbrium Basin is one of the largest of the giant impact basins whose formation highlighted the later stages of the formative era of the Solar System. Here we see some peaks of it's massive rim, mostly the shadowed sides here, made from photographs taken of the surroundings. Many of these photos had bad Sun glare in them and much processing and retouching was required to suppress the glare. In the foreground we see parts and antennas of the Lunar Module. This is roughly 210 degrees of the 360 degree panorama.

54 years ago the Apollo 15 mission was exploring the Hadley Rille area of the rim of the Moon's vast ancient Imbrium Basin. After landing, the 'top' hatch was opened and David Scott obtained panoramas of the surroundings from an elevated view, something done only once. Here is a part of that view.

Two whole days the Kamchatka tsunami has been bouncing around the Pacific!

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

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A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.

This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

M8.8 earthquake strikes offshore Kamchatka A dangerous subduction megathrust ruptures once again

The Earthquake Insights article about the Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake is, as always, really informative. ⚒️🧪 #geology

open.substack.com/pub/earthqua...

Just a reminder that tsunamis aren't just one wave.

This tide gauge in Alaska has recorded 5 hours of surges so far from the Kamchatka quake - still more to come!

Working on a project and made this image of the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption.

Never seen it from this perspective and it sort of blew my mind.

📜⚒️🌋 We have a new publication in Volcanica! A robust quantification of H2O in silicate glasses through micro-Raman spectroscopy: insights on the compositional effect. Congrats to Filippo for this great work!
www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.ph...

Felsic minerals in cross polarised light from Bau Granite Suite in Borneo. Large phenocryst in centre shows two regions of concentric zoning. Several other plagioclase phenocrysts show concentric zoning and twinning. Crescent shaped crystal (bottom right) is very rounded quartz xenocryst. Very fine grained groundmass of feldspars and quartz.

For #ThinSectionThursday a plagioclase phenocryst (centre) showing double twinning suggesting coalescence of two crystals. Crescent shaped crystal in lower right is part of highly rounded quartz xenocryst. From Bau Intrusive Suite, Sarawak, Borneo 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1016/j.li...

HDR (high dynamic range) image of a crescent Moon with the dark side illuminated by earthshine and several background stars.

Today is the #InternationalMoonDay - marking the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lading... so here goes my last #Moon photo! A crescent Moon HDR composite with Earthshine, 1 May 2025 🔭🌒

Seismometers around the world detected this earthquake. In this animation from @earthscope.org, you can watch the waves sweep across Europe - too small for people to feel, but not too small to be detected by seismic instruments.

A map of the southern central Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Bright red lines mark the currently active eruptive fissures. Darker red lines show guard walls meant to keep lava away from infrastructure. Lava flows from this current eruption are shaded purple; the flows are mostly moving eastward, away from roads and infrastructure. Darker gray shading shows all of the lava that has erupted out of the Sundhnúksgígar fissure in the 9 eruptions since December 2023. To the east, shaded in lighter gray, are the lava flows from the three Fagradalsfjall eruptions in 2021-2023.

⚒️🧪🌋🇮🇸 The fissure slowly extended to the north over the past hours. It is 2.4 km long now, and also extends further north than any of the previous fissures.
This new map shows a smaller lava cover area than has been the case in the earlier stages of previous eruptions.
www.vedur.is/um-vi/fretti...

Holy shit.

This is 3I/ATLAS—the interstellar comet recently discovered passing through the Solar System.

You're looking at something that didn't start out here.

It came from another star.

And, at about 7 billion years old, it was already ancient when our Sun was born.

Map that shows the approximate location of the fissure Iceland. Map by Ruv.is

The fissure of the #Iceland eruption that started this morning is between 700 and 1000 meters long and does not appear to be getting longer. Lava flow appears to be most concentrated to the southeast. No danger for Grindavik so far. ⚒️🧪 #volcano

Svartsengi volcano (Reykjanes peninsula): new eruption started

#Svartsengi #volcano (Reykjanes peninsula): new eruption started - A new eruption has started early this morning on the Reykjanes peninsula.
Following an intense earthquake swarm indicating the final push of magma towards the surface from shortly after midnight, an eruptive fissure opened south...

My detractors cannot wrap their head around it: l am not paid by anyone for my work on Palestine, not even the UN. Special Rapporteurs serve pro bono. And I have so much fun at doing what I do, you know why? Because I despise bullies, mafias and apartheid. It is in my DNA, and I will fight all three happily till my last breath. Now, minions, get a life.

🍀🍀🍀 Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine:

From EMSC

🔔#Earthquake (#terremoto) M5.3 occurred 53 km SE of #Almería (#Spain) 4 min ago (local time 07:13:28). More info at:
📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1831870
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake.php?id=1831870

The AI hype makes doing science so much more difficult. Fighting its nonsense takes time away from doing science and its uncritical adoption hollows out our scientific processes and deskills scientists on a massive scale.

🚨 How far are volcanologists from volcanoes? 🌋🚨 Check out our new paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1....
What started as a conversation about whether we at @exeter.ac.uk (in Cornwall, UK) are further from volcanoes than our global colleagues turned into an exploration of a fruitful data set!

Goldschmidt Science making the news!
"Youngest basaltic lunar meteorite fills nearly one billion-year gap in Moon’s volcanic history" Phys.org: buff.ly/Mccl9Ru

#Goldschmidt2025 talk by Snape et al. "Northwest Africa 16286: investigating the age & origin of a new lunar mare basalt" buff.ly/anRWoAg

We are thrilled to announce that the next IAVCEI Scientific Assembly will be held in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us in #IAVCEI2025 in Switzerland. We look forward to seeing you all again in #IAVCEI2029.

Welcome to Costa Rica!

🌋⚒️ After one intense werk of volanoes and many friends, #IAVCEI2025 is over! By far the my best conference to date, looking forward the next one. Thanks @iavcei.bsky.social !

Whoa.

That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.

With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

And here we have @albertocaracciolo.bsky.social with his La Palma CPx poster! #IAVCEI2025 🌋⚒️

If you want to learn all about CPx in the 2021 #Tajogaite eruption #LaPalma (including trace element maps!), come to Alberto's poster this afternoonn (no. 242) @albertocaracciolo.bsky.social #IAVCEI2025 🌋⚒️

🌋⚒️Today Jie Wu is talking about our results on the fate of S in the Hunga 2021 eruption, Tonga! Room S150, 11.15 #IAVCEI2025

Huge congrats to Teresa @teresaubide.bsky.social for receiving the Wager medal at #IAVCEI2025! So much deserved! 👏👏👏👏🌋⚒️