Riding with Robots
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I impersonate some of your favorite spacecraft, planets, and the entire solar system on social media for a living. (Tweets here are entirely my own, though.)
Joined February 2008
Saturn’s rings have disappeared! (Kind of.) Due to their tilt from the perspective of Earth, the planet's rings have appeared to vanish. But don’t worry – as Saturn continues to rotate, the rings will become visible again. 🪐
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Blue and Gold, the satellites we built for @NASA and @ucbssl, are now more than a million kilometers from Earth 🛰️🛰️ Follow their journey to Mars on @NASA Eyes. https://t.co/TZGkkiorCC
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The morning lake was smooth as a mirror. A few angels were even seen flying down just after dawn to check themselves out. — Billy Collins Barker Reservoir, Utah
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Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times, according to an analysis by two researchers at Cornell University.
nbcnews.com
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
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Eight possible cave openings found on the Martian surface look to have once had ancient streams flowing into them, suggesting they are promising places to look for evidence of life
newscientist.com
Eight possible cave openings found on the Martian surface look to have once had ancient streams flowing into them, suggesting they are promising places to look for evidence of life
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3 galaxies at once! Our Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Small Magellanic Cloud seen from Earth orbit. Photo taken with my star tracker.
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Saturn on November 21st. Average seeing on a rare clear spell before more rain arrived. The rings are very close to their minimum presentation angle of the year at 0.3º appearing as a thin bright line. The shadow cast across the centre of the planet is due to the Sun being
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The sheer volume of breathtaking photographs from over a decade ago. It feels like discovering a goldmine every single time.
Flickr is one of the last truly magical corners of the internet.
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Layers in Crommelin Crater as seen by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in September 2025. The area shown is about a kilometer across. https://t.co/6h0b8B2cxn
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'Like a mermaid swimming through a sea of auroras': ISS astronauts photograph 2 comets dancing above the northern lights
space.com
"That moment feels as enjoyable as heading out on a date."
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It’s amazing that comet #3IAtlas has wandered the Galaxy for billions of years, untouched and unnoticed, until it finally brushed past our Sun. I can’t help wondering where its journey will take it next, and what will have become of Earth by then. 😌
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This credulous, gushy @CNN segment by @jaketapper is just...wow. I'm embarrassed for my profession. UFOs are a decades-old sociocultural phenomenon. There is as much evidence for crashed alien #UFOs as there is for Bigfoot and the Bermuda Triangle. https://t.co/bm9VeVcM9Q
🛸👽💥🔥 This is an EXCELLENT segment! 🔥💥👽🛸 Jake Tapper: "I saw [The @ageofdisclosure] last night and it is reviving and fascinating." Farah: "The U.S. government's gonna step up and, officially, make it known that we're not alone in the Universe." ~ The Age of
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@Revkin @TheUfoJoe @ageofdisclosure @jaketapper @MickWest @SETIInstitute UFOs are like Groundhog Day for the media. They repeat the same narrative over & over, with just slight changes. This has been happening for many, many years. As MIT physicist Philip Morrison said in the late 1960s, UFOs are "a social phenomenon of journalism and television.”
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Intriguing new science from old data. 🧪 A new analysis of measurements from our Cassini mission found evidence of previously undetected organic compounds in a plume of ice particles ejected from the ocean inside Saturn’s moon Enceladus. https://t.co/Euw9o36TCh
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Scientists put moss on the outside of the International Space Station for 9 months — then kept it growing back on Earth
livescience.com
A species of moss survived for 9 months on the outside of the International Space Station, new research reveals — and 80% of the samples kept reproducing when returned to Earth.
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Gathering the light in my little black box so you can let it out again from your screen.
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😌Sometimes all you have to do is appreciate what the Chajnantor Plateau has in store for you. Yesterday afternoon, a snowstorm left us with this beautiful and striking image. Today it’s clear, and you can see the antennas live here: ➡️ https://t.co/Pph0AtRtyA
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Just look at this gorgeous new view from Perseverance..! Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson
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The Sun is a jungle of magnetic fields
This image, taken by @NSF Inouye Solar Telescope's VBI (Hydrogen Balmer line @ 656.3nm), shows part of a plage, which is a manifestation of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. The ‘brush stroke structures,’ named fibrils, follow the field’s orientation in the chromosphere
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