Elon’s #Starship is a massive failure, and we should stop allowing it to launch.
NASA’s Saturn V rocket from before I was born is beating SpaceX’s Starship by the metrics Elon promised Starship would excel. It could carry more, it was reliable, and it never experienced any “rapid disassemblies” or whatever he calls it.
In 2022, #NASA sent Artemis 1 on a successful test flight around the MOON on its FIRST ATTEMPT. Starship has yet to complete a single orbit around the Earth in 8 attempts.
NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024…
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/jason-cs-sentinel-6/sentinel-6-michael-freilich/nasa-analysis-shows-unexpected-amount-of-sea-level-rise-in-2024/
“With 2024 as the warmest year on record, Earth’s expanding oceans are following suit, reaching their highest levels in three decades,” said Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, head of physical #oceanography programs and the Integrated Earth System Observatory at #NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Ha!
Just as I thought that was a rare rock, maybe never to be seen again, here's another one, right next to the rover and to the left of the spot it recently abraded and cored.
Animation and telescopic view.
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking SW (229°) from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1445, LMST: 12:09:38
Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01445/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1445_0795218351_803EBY_N0692124ZCAM09500_1100LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01445/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1445_0795216339_303EBY_N0692124SCAM01445_0050I6J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
NASA has closed three of its offices and initiated mass firings as part of a broader government downsizing effort led by the President and his adviser, Elon Musk.
So far, 23 employees have been laid off, with more cuts expected in the coming weeks.
In many cases, individuals are being labeled as "DEI hires" simply for being women or people of colour. It's tacit racism, plain and simple.
NASA Researchers Study Coastal Wetlands, Champions of Carbon Capture https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-researchers-study-coastal-wetlands-champions-of-carbon-capture/ #NASA #ClimateChange #Earth #EarthSAtmosphere #GreenhouseGases
SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts after launch pad problem.
@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/rVHpIy
An Enceladus Tiger Stripe from Cassini
Credits: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, #JPL, ESA, #NASA
#nature #space #astrophotography
Update. "US science rues ongoing demotion of research under President Trump"
https://physicsworld.com/a/us-science-rues-ongoing-demotion-of-research-under-president-trump/
"In his first cabinet meeting on 26 February, #Trump suggested that officials “use scalpels” when trimming their departments’ spending and personnel – rather than #Musk’s figurative chainsaw. But bosses at the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) still plan to cut its budget by about two-thirds…The White House’s attack on #climate science goes beyond just the EPA. In January, the US Department of #Agriculture removed almost all data on climate change from its website…The Trump administration has also barred #NASA’s now former chief scientist Katherine Calvin and members of the State Department from travelling to China for a planning meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Meanwhile, in a speech to African energy ministers in Washington on 7 March, US energy secretary Chris Wright claimed that coal has “transformed our world and made it better”, adding that climate change, while real, is not on his list of the world’s top 10 problems."
What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse | NASA Science
The Moon will pass into Earth’s shadow and appear to turn red on the night of March 13 or early in the morning on March 14, depending on time zone. Here’s what you need to know about the total lunar eclipse.
#Moon #Eclipse #LunarEclipse #Astronomy #NASA
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-march-2025-total-lunar-eclipse/
Fascinating visualization of a black hole surrounded by an accretion disk, illustrating how light is warped by its intense gravitational fields.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
If you are concerned about the proposed 50% cut to #NASA's science budget, then write your representative in congress. The #PlanetarySociety provides on online form that will only take 2 minutes of your time:
Trump cuts NASA top science, technology, and diversity roles
Now, let's try and make sense out of this image captured by #Perseverance earlier tosol. The distance is about 2.5m away from the camera, just to the right of the right front wheel of the rover. What exactly is that we see here?
Spherules with holes? 
Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking N from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1442, LMST: 11:06:22
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise
@JourneysInFilm @stemed @education @edutooters @film It's a very good film and Octavia Spencer is brilliant as always.
#NASA like so many other organisations now will bend over for #trump. The real question is, what will they do after the stupid orange man is gone? Will any of this erased #history be back on the agenda?
See Ma too - #OctaviaSpencer is so good at being evil you want to kill the b-i-t-ch 
Today NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist and Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and also their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility branch.
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#NASA #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #DEI #USPol #Education #Homeschooling #Histodons @stemed @education @edutooters
Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson looking at Earth from the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA Johnson
NASA Initiates Office Closures and Layoffs Following Executive Order
- By Keith Cowing
https://nasawatch.com/personnel-news/nasa-office-of-technology-policy-and-strategy-layoffs/
More: https://hype.aero/space/?story=df41dfb3-a158-4c04-adb2-94442e140342
#nasa #space
40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes its Public Debut https://www.nasa.gov/history/40-years-ago-space-shuttle-atlantis-makes-its-public-debut/ #NASA #NASAHistory #JohnsonSpaceCenter
The long knives are now out for @NASA. It's billed here as "a first step in broader workforce reductions at the agency ordered by the Trump administration."
One of the affected divisions is the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), whose intended purpose "was to provide 'data- and evidence-driven technology, policy, and strategy advice' for NASA. It has worked on topics such as space sustainability and space solar power studies."
Trump and Musk are attacking NASA today.
Musk is not a geek, he is not a 'science nerd', it's just another lie of his.
He wants to destroy NASA to make profit, he doesn't care about going to Mars or anything like that, he just wants Power.
