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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...

🚨🚨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...

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.

NASA will lose at least 2,145 senior-level employees, endangering the administration’s Moon-to-Mars goals.

Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social

eos.org/research-and...

Concur wholeheartedly

I had the honor to speak at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum about this paper last week. 🧵 coming soon 🧪🪐🔭

I long for quieter calmer times.

18 June

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

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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If the US is so good at space (which it is) why is their proposed budget such a big cut? No need to answer that. There is no real defensible answer.

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 🧪🪐🔭

Looks like the first real divisions of opinion on the new Pope are already beginning to emerge.

This is The Last Supper now.

So much more convenient, safe, and easy to use. I despise having to use a multi-step touch screen process when a simple button is all that is necessary.

Fascinating prehistoric sites in Ireland. Knowth and Newgrange passage tombs, kerbstones, and Poulnabrone Dolmen. All older than the pyramids and Stonehenge. #tombtuesday #ancientbluesky

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.

You are asking the right question. Do you REALLY want to?????

I am curious what you will find.

Pass. Call me a coward but still a hard pass from me.

It certainly looks/feels that way

From the OPM website

Good article worth reading.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Doggie cousins enjoying the pre-Christmas time together. #Yorkie #CavalierSpaniel

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".

new fear unlocked

Good morning. #NASA featured out paper on the Science Mission Directorate website! #PlanetaryScience 🧪🔭🚀🪐🌎☄️🛰️

science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

The #NASA science writer who wrote this feature is also on Bluesky @space-to-lonnie.bsky.social so give her a follow

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Who’s there?
SYN flood.
SYN flood who?
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