Riding With Robots
@ridingrobots
Robotic solar system exploration, astrophotography, exasperating earnestness. My day job is impersonating your favorite planets and spacecraft on social media for your favorite government agency. Opinions are my own.
It's been hot enough here that it's a stand-in for Venus From NASA: Using a helicopter to simulate a slow fall through Venus’ atmosphere, the DAVINCI team confirmed that their probe’s descent imaging system can read the landscape below & deliver results. go.nasa.gov/4f1TqpB
I liked it a lot better when the doctor would give you a sucker or something as a prize.
5 years ago today: Millenia in Conversation with Epochs Colorado River cliffs with rock art thought to be created during the Archaic (6,000 - 1,000 BCE) cultural period 13 seconds of light, five thousand years of art, five million years of sandstone, several billion years of stars Near Moab, Utah
My new favorite rock is definitely this ancient coral I found on my own property in the mountains. Wild stuff.
The Dish (2000). Sam Neill and David Warburton. True story of the Australian antenna that carried the first live broadcast from the Moon. A warm homage to all the people behind the scenes. Today the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex is a key part of NASA's Deep Space Network.
The ability to occasionally do forest bathing and sky bathing on the same day is one of the many reasons I'm a lucky son of a bitch.
From NASA 1,000 days in space! 🌌📷 As of today, our Psyche spacecraft has been traveling for a thousand days. Watch for more views of its recent Mars flyby soon! Next stop: the intriguing, metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche.
Let's see if this is anything: Astrophotographers, what's a favorite daylight shot you captured while in the field for a night sky shoot? 📷☀️
Updating the maps again Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms’ Length science.nasa.gov/missions/cha...
One of the really special things about the ai era is how posts on the official accounts are now swamped with nonsense replies that repeat back the premise of the original post. Sort of. This one I just had to share. Tag yourself; I'm the planet Neysute.
Where is New Horizons now? I believe the astronomical term is "hell and gone" Yet we're still in regular contact with it. eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...
This nighttime picture of Earth was taken on April 2 by an Artemis II crew member through a window of the Orion spacecraft. The visible hemisphere appears awash in sunlight, but it is actually lit by moonlight — sunlight reflected from the lunar surface. images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
From NASA To explore farther into the universe, we also have to understand our home. 🌎 With more than 20 satellites, NASA tracks Earth’s land, ocean, ice, and atmosphere to help communities thrive. This unique view from space serves all life below. go.nasa.gov/4axfEgp
Now the ocean has become this canyon, and the little shells are…still here
Once I realized they were here, I started seeing them everywhere: tiny bits of life from the ancient shoreline that this mountain used to be. #FossilFriday
From NASA Charting the vast Jovian realm: NASA's Juno mission provides new maps of the giant planet Jupiter 🗺️ missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/thin... This is a cylindrical composite map from Juno's 9th close pass by Jupiter. Credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / John Rogers
New Martian landscapes and other beauties from @tthomopoulos.bsky.social and others at www.flickr.com/groups/ridin...
From NASA Tonight's full Moon has an atmosphere too — just extraordinarily thin. With about a quadrillion times fewer molecules in a given space than Earth's, it’s so sparse that space rocks strike the surface directly instead of burning up! go.nasa.gov/4f5xx8D
A robot from Earth takes a closer look at what, in some ancient eon, might have been a mud flat sometimes submerged in water science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...
The Milky Way the other morning. Always beautiful, even when washed in moonlight. Good night.
Geologists/fossil experts! Photo 1 is a fossiliferous rock about 8 centimeters long, found in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. But what are these other rocks?? (found very nearby the first rock, and about the same size)
Just now: Owl says good night to the orange moon 🌔 (Sound up)
