Flyby success! ESA's Juice spacecraft passed Venus at 07:28 CEST on 31 August. This photo shows our deep-space antenna in Spain in communication with Juice during the flyby. Juice’s current location, Venus, and its destination, Jupiter, are both visible in the sky ❤️

“They’re afraid that basic knowledge will expose their false claims.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

SPHEREx Discovers Extended Carbon Dioxide Coma in Interstellar Object 3I-ATLAS spherex.caltech.edu/news/3i-atla... #SPHEREx #3IATLAS 🧪🔭

Maryame El Moutamid and colleagues have discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The JWST observations show a 10km moon orbiting 56,000km from Uranus's center. This moon adds to the complex puzzle that is the Uranian ring and moon system. #planetsci 🧪 science.nasa.gov/blogs/webb/2...

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management. medium.com/@steve.desch...

The REASON Ice Penetrating Radar produced good test data when we flew by Mars! All looking good for seeing inside #Europa in a few years. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

Maaaaarrrrssss! #EuropaClipper www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Fear! Panic! Europa Clipper Captures Mars, Phobos, and Deimos photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... #EuropaClipper

Under the proposed White House budget, the NASA Space Grant program would be eliminated. I was a NASA Space Grant recipient during my Masters—it funded my research on water on Mars. I then went on to work in science & mission ops on multiple NASA Mars missions immediately after graduation. (1/2)

Happy pride month! I worked with some LA-based scientists and engineers, and we have a kickstarter for space pride t-shirts! Consider backing! 🛰️🏳️‍⚧️🚀🏳️‍🌈🪐 www.kickstarter.com/projects/spa...

Neat! NASA just released a thermal image of Mars taken by the Jupiter-bound Europa Clipper spacecraft. Their story is here; I'll provide some context in following posts. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e...

it's tough out there for federal workers right now. People working on space missions have always been "paid" partly in the satisfaction and thrill of exploring where no one has been before, followed by the excitement of sharing those discoveries with the public. When morale drops, that pay drops.

#EuropaClipper NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures Mars in Infrared Headed for Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft did some sightseeing, using a flyby of Mars to calibrate its infrared imaging instrument. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur... #Mars 🧪🔭

Europa Clipper captures Mars in the thermal infrared! "On its recent swing by Mars, NASA’s Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The data will help mission scientists calibrate the spacecraft’s thermal imaging instrument." www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e...

From Io to Europa to Earth’s Moon: a fascinating tale of tidal heating! www.quantamagazine.org/whats-going-...

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

And to celebrate the occasion, AI brings us the hit song: 5 Years to JOI ! suno.com/song/cec6a57...

Psst…5 years from today is Jupiter Orbit Insertion for Europa Clipper. Everyone should mark their calendars.

Here’s more detail on the $420 million NASA says it has cut in contracts and grants. Oh wait - there is little detail publicly available. spacenews.com/nasa-termina...

“Resignations, layoffs, and disruptions are likely to affect NASA’s work far into the future. ‘A mistake made today might not come to fruition, so to speak, until an astronaut is on the surface of the moon in a few years…. Do you want to be the Administration that killed astronauts?’”

Word. I wasn't sure what #LPSC2025 would be like. Some people were missing because of yanked funding or because they didn't feel safe traveling to Texas. Many don't know if they'll have jobs, or even missions, in a year. But the science was SO GOOD, and people had a fierce joy about that.

theonion.com/128-new-moon... 🪐

My wife and I baked a scrumptious gluten-free banana cream pie for the π-Day celebration accompanying the #EuropaClipper Post-Launch Assessment Review (PLAR) today! It's the first time either of us has made a pie, and we're very proud. I'm even more proud of the PLAR's outstanding presenters. #PiDay

In Whoville they say - that the Democrat's small balls grew three sizes that day. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

LIVE: NASA launches SPHEREx from California NASA launches SPHEREx, an observatory intended to improve the understanding of what occurred immediately after the Big Bang event that initiated the universe and to search our Milky Way galaxy for water. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do_X...

The old timers can attest that it’s not the same without the smell of gym socks. #LPSC2025 #Gilruth #popcorn

This is a great pre-emption of the inanity surrounding the idea that NASA could succeed with a 50% cut to Science. 2024 budget (in $M): Total: 24,875 ESDMD: 7,666 STMD: 1,100 SMD: 7,334 SOMD: 4,220 ARMD: 935 STEM Eng: 143 Safe, Secure, Mission: 3,129 Construction: 300 IG: 47.6

Mood. #LPSC2025

The Moon’s not doing so hot at #LPSC2025. Maybe it just needs to ‘embrace the challenge.’

Because a bunch of white guys without a science or technology strategy is a great way for #NASA to succeed.

Looking for something to call your Rep about today? #NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist, their Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy, and their DEIA office, and laying everyone off. A travesty for science & American leadership in space. nasawatch.com/ask-the-admi...

Just giving away space preeminence hand over fist.

It is criminal that this is the state of our nation — and this is what happens when the nation is run by a criminal.

“If this next chapter of space exploration is to be dominated by new enterprise, we must build wisely on the sustained collective wisdom of #NASA engineers. Otherwise, we are doomed to repeat the lesson of Apollo, putting the Moon and Mars even further out of reach.” - @cyberlyra.bsky.social

Now we finally know how #JPL splits on the topic of chocolate vs vanilla. #SPHEREx #IceCreamSocial

😔 blogs.nasa.gov/trailblazer/...

#EuropaClipper closing in on Mars this weekend, a gravity assist for the long journey to Jupiter (but back via Earth in Dec'26 for another speed boost). Looks like thermal imaging and radar will be tested during the flyby, can't wait to see the results. #planetsci www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e...

On March 1, the Europa Clipper spacecraft will soar past Mars, using that planet’s gravity to shape its trajectory, sending it first back by Earth, then on toward its 2030 rendezvous with Jupiter. Onward and upward! #Europa #EuropaClipper www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

THE EUROPA CLIPPER MARS FLYBY IS COMING UP ON MARCH 1ST!!! it’ll perform a gravity assist maneuver to help it on its way to jupiter!! 🛰️

“It feels like a betrayal by NASA....It’s inefficient, it’s wasteful, and it’s also just messed up.” This is how scientists inside and outside the agency are feelings about the cuts to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Words by me: 🧪

It’s expected that the #NASA family will be torn asunder this week, with a substantial number of the best and brightest in this nation tossed like scraps by wolves, for political and cronyistic purposes. This is a travesty.

NASA folks in #planetaryscience - I'm trying to put together a network who can help our colleagues through RIFs on Tuesday. This is an EMERGENCY: Reports say that NASA probationary employees will be fired on Tuesday.

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! You can try to silence or erase us, but we aren’t going anywhere. We will keep fighting and being awesome 😤

Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it. Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.

NASA (and LPI/USRA) is deleting public *community created* science documents from *non NASA* websites. These documents are often created using a combination of tax-payer funding and the volunteered time of scientists/engineers. (Mostly the latter)

No, no, no you don’t @agu.org—put it back; yes, right now. C’mon say it with us: D-I-V-E-R-S-I-T-Y…. That’s right; just as you correctly stood up for last week… Or else you won’t get our membership dues this year, and we will not visit you in New Orleans. Because we will stand up for what is right.

In 2025, we’re back to fighting the actions of a tiny minority who choose to feel threatened by the invitation to all of the smart and clever people to participate, not just those who look a kind of way.