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🚨🚨Big #PlanetaryScience News🚨🚨
Tomorrow the National Academies will release the report on their study "A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars." I was honored to chair the #Astrobiology Panel for this study. Make sure to watch the briefing!🧪🔭🪐

www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEP...
A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: Report Release Event
When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones. These first steps will be the result of decades of research, engineering, and imagination coming together, marking t...
www.nationalacademies.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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NASA will lose at least 2,145 senior-level employees, endangering the administration’s Moon-to-Mars goals.

Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social

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2,145 Senior-Level Staff to Leave NASA - Eos
At least 2,145 high-level NASA employees are set to leave as the agency faces high pressure from the Trump administration to reduce its staff.
eos.org
July 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Concur wholeheartedly
July 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I had the honor to speak at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum about this paper last week. 🧵 coming soon 🧪🪐🔭
🚨🚨New paper alert!! 🚨🚨🧪🔭
Today we published exciting new results from the Rosetta mission! These results have big implications for where the comet formed and for whether comets could have supplied water to Earth. #PlanetaryScience #Rosetta 🧵1/n
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A nearly terrestrial D/H for comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Analysis of Rosetta measurements suggests that Jupiter family comets could have delivered much of Earth’s water.
www.science.org
June 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you are interested in space and the origins of earth’s oceans, my wife @mommascientist.bsky.social is giving at talk at the Air and Space Museum on 18.

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The Origin of Earth's Oceans
Seventy-one percent of Earth’s surface is covered in oceans, but did you ever wonder why? Explore where Earth's ocean water came from and how we know
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May 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Did you know that #NASA has a program called #PlanetaryProtection? This program not only protects Earth from #asteroid and #comet impacts but also helps us to understand how the solar system formed based on where all these small bodies ended up 🧪🪐🔭
Are Potentially Hazardous Asteroids behind #Venus?
Echoing Carruba's team study published in A&A on this, emphasing #VeraRubinObservatory role in detecting these #PHAs
#PlanetarySciences
May 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Looks like the first real divisions of opinion on the new Pope are already beginning to emerge.
Chicago native Pope Leo XIV is apparently a White Sox, not a Cubs, fan. https://wgntv.com/news/pope-leo/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv-chicago-cubs-sox/
May 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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This is The Last Supper now.
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Fascinating prehistoric sites in Ireland. Knowth and Newgrange passage tombs, kerbstones, and Poulnabrone Dolmen. All older than the pyramids and Stonehenge. #tombtuesday #ancientbluesky
April 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Huge income on the way due to the tariff imposed on the Heard and McDonald Islands. Oh wait a second…
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.

The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Bird Flu: Myth Vs. Fact
theonion.com/bird-fl...
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Good article worth reading.
January 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
January 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Doggie cousins enjoying the pre-Christmas time together. #Yorkie #CavalierSpaniel
December 21, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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TV Presenter poses an unprecedented question to an elderly Syrian woman:

"You lived in the era of Hafez Al-Assad and Bashar Al-Assad, what do you have to say?"

"F**k both of them".
December 8, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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new fear unlocked
December 7, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Good morning. #NASA featured out paper on the Science Mission Directorate website! #PlanetaryScience 🧪🔭🚀🪐🌎☄️🛰️

science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
December 4, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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The #NASA science writer who wrote this feature is also on Bluesky @space-to-lonnie.bsky.social so give her a follow
Good morning. #NASA featured out paper on the Science Mission Directorate website! #PlanetaryScience 🧪🔭🚀🪐🌎☄️🛰️

science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
December 7, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Knock knock.
Who’s there?
SYN flood.
SYN flood who?
Knock knock.…
December 4, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Mostly finished making a box for Bailie’s collar and tags (Yorkie we had to put down last fall). I have made boxes before but this is my first attempt using only hand tools. Overall, really happy. Maybe I will have a hobby when I get around to retiring in the next ten-ish years.
November 30, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Help us commemorate victims, preserve memory & educate the world. Amplify our voice.

Your interaction here is more than just a click. It is an act of remembrance against forgetting. Like, share, or quote our posts.

Let people know that @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social is present here.
November 29, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Some remarkable details emerging from UK trial of an alleged Russian spy ring. Allegedly directed by fugitive former Wirecard executive turned Kremlin agent Jan Marsalek, group used women as honeytraps, targeted prominent journalists & dissidents: news.sky.com/story/russia...
Russian spies in love triangle were to be used in 'honeytrap' operation across Europe, court hears
A spy ring in the UK passed secrets to Russia for nearly three years, endangering the national interest and putting "many lives at risk", a court has been told.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
November 28, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Russian intel and cyber operations folks are not having a great week based on press reporting the last couple days. Warms my heart as the weather is starting to cool this fall.
September 6, 2024 at 12:30 AM