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9/9 Martian Potato1 🧵

Eighth Frame
Full size & info: flic.kr/p/2pHBL86
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

Mission: ESA Mars Express
Orbit 7982
Instrument: HRSC
Time: 2010-03-26T12:18:52.587Z
Filter: ND
Product IDs:
H7982_0000_ND3.IMG

Notes: all images above are colorised and are a single shot, not a composite. More info on the related links.

#phobos#Mars#Space

Happy birthday to Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life and career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, since a childhood bout of typhus stunted her growth. Her mother thought she should train to be a servant, & purposely stood in the way of her learning French, or music,🧵

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The debate over definition of planets can become relevant back home. By some definitions, the Moon could be considered a planet. It's a round planetary body. Since it orbits the Earth, it's obviously just a moon. Except it's big enough that as it gets farther away (a few cm each Earth year), there's a point where their center of gravity can go outside the Earth. Any definition that makes the Moon a planet, makes the Earth-Moon system a binary planet. #astronomy

I will share more information soon regarding the site visit to #SURF, a sister underground laboratory to #SNOLAB. I want to share now that the "Deep Talk" lecture I delivered last night at the SURF Visitor Centre was an incredible experience. I was especially excited to be able to personally interact with over a dozen audience members. This included an awesome small-group Q&A session after the formal event.

Watch the lecture online:

vimeo.com/event/4989986

vimeo.comDr. Stephen Sekula, Research Group Manager at SNOLAB, for this Deep Talks event on Supernova!Join us for Deep Talks! 168,000 years ago, very close to our home galaxy, a massive star exploded. On February 23, 1987, the first signs of this catastrophe reached…