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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Aug 10

It’s good to be back around the glaciers 🥰.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jul 21

First photo and immediately some human garbage in white sack. Typical 😂.

Now seriously - what a feat! Heroes.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jul 18

Super interesting story about the new interstellar object - 3I/ATLAS 👇.

Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · Jul 17

One of my favourite stories I’ve written this year.

A third known interstellar object is flying through our solar system right now. What are the 7 biggest questions we want to answer about it?

Story by me in @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

New Interstellar Object Is Full of Mysteries. Here’s What Scientists Most Want to Learn

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever

www.scientificamerican.com

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jun 19

He was soooo ahead of his time…

Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · Jun 19

“This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jun 18

Not only the Prague planetarium have the most modern LED projection in the world. They also do have these awesome mirrors on toilets! How cool is that?! 😍

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jun 17

This is an awesome accomplishment by our former student! So happy for him 🥹. @esa.int

Centre for Polar Ecology @cpecz.bsky.social · Jun 17

The search for life on Mars.

That’s the main mission of Lucas Fernandez, a graduate of the Faculty of Science at the University of South Bohemia.

🧵👇

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · Jun 11

Mickey Mouse Spotted on Mercury! - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/bXjnXB

NASA image acquired: June 03, 2012

This scene is to the northwest of the recently named crater Magritte, in Mercury's south. The image is not map projected; the larger crater actually sits to the north of the two smaller ones. The shadowing helps define the striking "Mickey Mouse" resemblance, created by the accumulation of craters over Mercury's long geologic history.

This image was acquired as part of MDIS's high-incidence-angle base map. The high-incidence-angle base map is a major mapping activity in MESSENGER's extended mission and complements the surface morphology base map of MESSENGER's primary mission that was acquired under generally more moderate incidence angles. High incidence angles, achieved when the Sun is near the horizon, result in long shadows that accentuate the small-scale topography of geologic features. The high-incidence-angle base map is being acquired with an average resolution of 200 meters/pixel.

The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of the Solar System's innermost planet. Visit the Why Mercury? section of this website to learn more about the key science questions that the MESSENGER mission is addressing. During the one-year primary mission, MESSENGER acquired 88,746 images and extensive other data sets. MESSENGER is now in a yearlong extended mission, during which plans call fo...

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · Jun 11

Pretty grim

www.planetary.org/articles/nas...

NASA's disastrous 2026 budget proposal in seven charts

The White House has put forward a radical, wasteful proposal for NASA. We have the data to prove it.

www.planetary.org

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jun 7

DART before it was cool! Such a great feat 💫.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · May 31

What a joke. If Trump really wanted America First then he wouldn't have proposed absolutely massacring NASA's budget. It's all bullshit.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 31

If the pattern continues, it’ll be someone with no space or even science experience.

White House says Trump will soon announce new nominee for NASA head

U.S. President Donald Trump will soon announce a new candidate to serve as administrator of NASA, the White House said on Saturday, but did not explain why initial nominee Jared Isaacman was no longer in the running.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · May 31

What a disaster… 😩

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · May 31

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate.

Bloodbath is right.

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Ted Stryk @tedstryk.bsky.social · May 3

May the 4th be with you!

(Mimas, moon of Saturn, Voyager 1, 1980)

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Apr 24

Happy B-Day Hubble! #OTD 35 years ago Hubble launched onboard space shuttle Discovery STS-30.

Keep those pictures coming ❤️🔭.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · Apr 13

I can’t fucking comment on this. Every last one of them, every Russian must be destroyed.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Apr 11

This is just horrible...

Eric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social · Apr 11

This really is an extinction level event for NASA's science programs.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA

“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

arstechnica.com

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Apr 4

This is breathtaking 🤩.

Centre for Polar Ecology @cpecz.bsky.social · Apr 4

Oh, hello Svalbard! A completely new perspective on "our" archipelago thanks to so-called framonauts from the board of the spaceship Crew Dragon.

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 31

Always pops-up a quote from him from Beyond the grid when he was asked, if he would beat Irvine during the whole season, nonchalantly: “yeah, easily…” 😂

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 29

Another set 🙂.

Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 28

These pics rocks!!

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 28

Cool pictures of Luca Parmitano during the training in Orion mockup with his NASA collegaues.

They were practicing recovery procedures for the Artemis II astronauts for next year.

It is nice to see the @esa.int patch on Orion space suit! I guess Luca is first in the line for ESA Artemis seat. 🚀

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Mikeovi se evidentně na něj už nechtělo čekat... 😒 I když pochybuji, že si o to sám řekl.

Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Ta si zatím asi ještě bude muset počkat... 🙁

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Hello Crew-11! 👋

I am so happy for Zena Cardman. After getting bumped from Crew-9 she is finally going! And again as a commander.

Polar scientists turned astronauts are the best!

From left are Mission Specialist Kimiya Yui from JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Commander NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, and Pilot NASA astronaut Mike Fincke. Credit: NASA

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Martin Lulak @polarandycz.bsky.social · Mar 27

🥹 good bye dear Gaia! You were the best. Feel for you @janamulacova.bsky.social

ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · Mar 27

Goodbye, Gaia.

'Bye' appears in the status of Gaia's subsystems as the spacecraft is powered down and switched off for the final time

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