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#Artemis II - Photo 2 from yesterdays flyby ECLIPSE. April 6, 2026. Totality, beyond Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few in human history have ever witnessed. Photo: NASA 🚀🌕🌑

#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. 🚀🌕🌍

Pre-flyby view of the Orion spacecraft window from the Artemis II crew. flic.kr/p/2s68SXB

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 1957 (2018-02-06) at approximately 7:09 LTST and a solar longitude of 125.8°.

update from suddenly very noisy Ontario

Very nice halo keeping me company on my morning walk

This week, PhD Student @dchayes.ca sheds some light on how we talk to spacecraft on and around other planets: york-pvl.blogspot.com/2026/02/talk... The situation on the red planet is particularly complex and therefore particularly interesting! Like any infrastructure, maintenance is critical

For many years, researchers were unable to independently verify the alleged existence of Line 5 Eglinton.

Join us June 19–21, 2026 for #ComSciConCAN 2026! 🚨 at U of Waterloo for a 3-day conference dedicated to taking your science communication skills to the next level. 💡 Application deadline EXTENDED to February 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST! bit.ly/CSCC2026_App #SciComm #GradLife #STEMCanada #CSCC2026

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4788-4797: Welcome Back from Conjunction by Alex Innanen @transmartian.bsky.social, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi... #Mars 🧪🔭

Still on Mars with Curiosity. Still doing awesome science. Love this recent "MAHLI after dark" image we acquired last month of our drill in the super cool boxwork region: science.nasa.gov/resource/cur...

Not the most pleasant day to go to the store only to find it's been unexpectedly closed, but at least there was some fun snow lifting

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Carbon dioxide clouds over Mont Mercou, Curiosity Sol 3063 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2oUgFwL

2025 ==> 2026 as seen by the York Observatory all-sky camera.

Kudos to our project scientist who helps advocate for these every ~year when I think the view might work and we've got a little bit of energy and time spare in a plan. Doing the science on the day to day is important. Taking a moment now and again to do something just for art is important as well.

Love to visit the Toronto Zoo to see all my best friends

Yesterday, we had our last planning day with Curiosity for almost a month before she takes an extended holiday behind the sun science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi... #PlanetaryScience

In the final blog post of 2025, @transmartian.bsky.social reflects on their writing journey as a graduate student. york-pvl.blogspot.com/2025/12/inse... This is a key skill: it's not science until it has been shared!

Postcards from PVL (by @dchayes.ca and I)

Proud to see the first paper (out in @agu.org JGRPlanets) from Dr. Campbell, the postdoc @sguzewich.bsky.social and I mentor. She did a spectacular job explaining the source of the odd dust activity (called the B-storm) during Mars's SH summer. #planetaryscience #Mars 🪐🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

RIP V3cam 2025–2025 😔

We're so excited to announce the publication of the first issue of our Open Access, peer-reviewed, science communication Journal - The Canadian Journal of Science Communication! 🎉 You can view the issue here: lnkd.in/gQ-DHFwS We hope you enjoy reading as much as we enjoyed preparing the issue!

Iridescent clouds over Gale Crater (enhanced color) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qJvryP

First! Snow!

Thrilled to see how many times York will make me redo my name change before I graduate

Office tree, October 1 — October 31

Canadian Space Agency tell me your rover's name or I will keep engaging in extremely overblown crafting activities to make jokes about it

The thing about attempting to grow potatoes remotely from the opposite side of the city is that it's hard

HiPOD: A Song of Ice and More Ice This stunning image shows part of the South Polar residual ice cap, a term that refers to ice that lingers well past a seasonal change. Our science goal here is to look for any changes in the ice cap. https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076435_0940 #Mars #science #NASA

Invested with the unlimited power of my lab's p card with which I will purchase one (1) package of paper towel

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍 Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭🧪

I spent way too long making this on my phone 🔭

Can you tell that it's International Observe the Moon Night?

I did sneak outside to observe her #ObserveTheMoonNight 🔭

This photo from the Perseverance rover captured in early March, may be my favorite Mars image from this year. It shows Mars' smaller moon Deimos over the hills of the Nili Planum region in the dark skies before dawn. 🔭 Full res: flic.kr/p/2rwUwV7 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4668-4674: Winding Our Way Along by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi... #Mars @transmartian.bsky.social 🧪🔭

Trains can pass at any time, a passing train told me

You may need to turn up your phone brightness for this one

The full version of this mosaic (in "white-balanced" colours) is now available on the JPL Photojournal: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA2... (You'll definitely want to click the link to fully appreciate the incredible detail!) Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

If you feel like making the trek out to the Lämpiö foyer (near Neptune) this evening, you can chat with me about clouds at L32! #EPSCDPS2025

Engaged in some light lunar eclipse spotting on the first night of #EPSCDPS2025 🔭

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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4624-4626: A Busy Weekend at the Boxwork Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto, Canada @transmartian.bsky.social Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...

If nothing else being up at 5 will let you see planets

www.nasa.gov/missions/mar... Our JPL engineers continue to blow my mind with their talent. Squeezing every drop of science out of our wonderful rover that we can! (h/t to @dougellison.bsky.social for making my late night request to acquire this Navcam postcard a reality. The view was too good!)

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.