NASA Announces Rover Has Found Beauty In The Mundane On Mars

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Battle of the Phase One Alto High Speed Rail Corridor (coming to you circa 2040, maybe).

RUNNING IT BACK

THE OTTAWA CHARGE WITH THEIR FIRST-EVER WIN AT CTC!

Outing myself on main as a @pwhlcharge.bsky.social fan before Game 3.

Provincial emergency alert test managed to steal my microphone away from my ongoing WhatsApp call, somehow crashing WhatsApp, Firefox, and then my entire computer.

Beautiful women named Statistics Canada are sending me mail.

I often say that my heart and soul yearn for the American midwest, and it kills me that, as a trans woman, I don't feel safe returning to the country that raised me (putting aside the fact that the whole world feels like it's becoming more dangerous for trans people...)

Important to note that Alex and I made this exact same joke within half a second of each other as soon as they pulled it out of the box.

Me when I take a photo with a finger partially over my phone's camera.

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Now that the CSA's lunar rover is cancelled and Line 5 is open, we need to guess whether there will be a crewed NASA lunar landing before or after the Ontario Line opens.

Absolutely nothing that the NHL loves more than fumbling an easy PR win.

Every time I complain about the TTC, I remember COTA

Every time I'm on MSL planning I still almost can't believe that we're able to say "I would like to take a picture of that rock (or whatever)" and within a handful of days get a photo of that rock (or whatever) FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS.

HOLY SHIT

Postcards from the far side www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... #Artemis 🔭🧪

oh man... images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

A New View of the Moon Earth sets over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. flic.kr/p/2s6971B #Artemis 🧪🔭

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

Answering this a bit, I guess:

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

New shot of the Moon taken only a few hours ago by the Artemis II crew! More of the lunar far side coming into view :-D flic.kr/p/2s676GN

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Yeah that’s cool

Hot tip re: someone I just had to block: "Trans men shouldn't transition because they become Men, The Source Of All Worldly Problems" is still transphobic! (In addition to being bioessentialist nonsense)

Mark Carney should call an early election just so I can have the pleasure of watching Carleton tell this man to go to hell a second time.

Serious questions are being asked.

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

The answer did (somehow) end up being the Crosstown, but it now appears that we'll never know what this rover's name would have been as the CSA is cancelling the mission 😔

just remember how insanely fast nature rebounded when everyone stopped rolling coal for 10 minutes in the early pandemic

Things that are really fun to think about while you're trying to decide what you're doing after you get your PhD :)

I love writing emails referring to myself in the third person. I have not been fundamentally broken as a person by academia.

...I don't think this is true?

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

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4812-4819: Back Into the Hollows Written by Diana Hayes, Graduate student at York University, Toronto, Canada @dchayes.ca Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...

Having to hunt down the source of an image claiming to be a photo of a sunset at Gale Crater because I know Gale Crater and this isn't her.

Fun activities for when you have a spare ~five hours in Toronto:

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

It has now been four years

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...

This has been one of the wildest things for me. Before I started E I was like "I don't really have dysphoria in any meaningful way," but after (almost) a year and a half I can look back like yeah I kind of really did, actually, but just didn't know how to identify it.

Google Scholar will be sending me articles from such reputable "journals" as "Collection of scientific papers."

Was filling out staffing availability yesterday and saw that my name had been changed, something that I cannot recall doing myself, suggesting that someone on the inside at JPL must have noticed and done it for me 🥹

Finally got course evaluations back for my first lab teaching experience and needless to say I will be riding this high for the next week.

Open Call for Proposals for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) and ISSI-BJ invite proposals for establishing International Teams to conduct collaborative research in the Space and Earth Sciences at their respective meeting facilities.

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