Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

All Quiet on the Martian Front.

No dust devils or dust movement detected on Sol 3682 by the Curiosity Rover in this 360 degree NavCam survey

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Last week, we released https://science.data.nasa.gov/

This site includes links to the Science Data Repositories holding the data from NASA missions from Earth, Heliophysics, Planetary, Astrophysics, and Biological and Physical Sciences. The data collections in these repositories can be searched from https://science.data.nasa.gov/search

This includes our latest thematic data repository that shares opacities that can be used to study the atmospheres of exoplanets: https://science.data.nasa.gov/opacities/

#NASA #OpenScience

If you're getting a manuscript final ready for the end of the year, my advice is: don't submit it to a journal now, it will only create frustration as editors and reviewers take holidays while journals are submerged with "managed to finish in 2022" manuscripts. Rather, preprint it now, and submit mid January, with the benefit of feedback and time to think, and editors and reviewers now slightly more available. #preprint #protip

Yes - I’ve had a lot of follows (thank you!) from grey profiles with no posts and no info in the bio. I won’t follow back accounts until I have a good idea of what they will be posting(!)
It doesn’t take long to write a couple of sentences and it’s worth posting a couple of times before following - the chances of building a network become much larger!

Studio Ghibli Makes 1,178 Images Free to Download from My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away & Other Beloved Animated Films

https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/studio-ghibli-makes-1178-images-free-to-download.html

December 19, 1972, Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the Moon returns to Earth. Astronaut and geologist Jack Schmitt left his geological hammer there ⚒🌝

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CabY3T5QaEQ

Whoa. This is dark.

A good night for astrophotography. (At least, I think it was. I haven't processed everything yet.) This is the globular cluster M15. I found out on Saturday that there's a tiny planetary nebula buried in here. I was able to use a more professional image to locate *where* in here. But I still can't see it. But it's a beautiful cluster anyway.

ICYMI: A call for pedantry in free speech debates and for separating Free Speech Rights, Free Speech Culture, And Speech Decency.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-pedantry

Today's #DailyArchaeology is an old fav. These bone styluses, with gnawing on only one end, are proof that people chewed on their pencils nearly 2,500 years ago in ancient Athens

My 📸. Archaeological Museum at Acharnai. #archaeology

It seems appropriate that we thank @ruud and others responsible for #moderation in mastodon.world instance.

We created our account here uninvited and from the very beginning we received a great #support.

On the very first day some Holocaust deniers tried to troll the account. The moderators reacted immediately and, which is very telling), we actually did not experience anything like this afterwords.

We also got #help when we had technical issues with account verification.

#thankyou