Another day, another drive for Perseverance rover. Its short drive was completed during mission sol 1463 (April 1, 2025) to site number 71.160. Attached is one of the end-of-drive tiled left NavCam images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Mars #M2020 #Perseverance

**Greg Cocks** @GregCocks@techhub.social · 3d

Greg Cocks @GregCocks@techhub.social

Critical Minerals In Ores (CMiO) Database
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https://lnkd.in/gynRjUfn <-- shared USGS publication
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https://lnkd.in/gETca3DQ <-- shared link to open data database, web map services, etc
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https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/cmmi <-- shared web map
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https://lnkd.in/gdmMp2zg <-- shared editorial piece on critical minerals and geopolitics
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#geology #fedscience #opendata #CMMI #CMiO #criticalminerals #minerals #ores #database #opendata #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #commodities #technology #components #geochemistry #deposits #mining #extraction #classifaction #nomenclature #environments #structuralgeology #exploration
@USGS | @GeoscienceAustralia | @GeologicalSurveyOfCanada

**Chao-c'** @xChaos@f.cz · 3d *

3d *

Chao-c' @xChaos@f.cz

https://spacenews.com/china-unveils-planetary-exploration-roadmap-targeting-habitability-and-extraterrestrial-life/

Tianwen-3 ~2028 Mars sample return - Search for past/present life on Mars

Tianwen-4 ~2029 Jupiter, Callisto -Potential ocean world / planetary habitability

Venus Sample Return ~2033 Venus atmosphere - Atmospheric microenvironment

Mars Science Station ~2038 Mars surface - Long-term biology and environmental research

Neptune Mission ~2039 Neptune, Triton - Habitability of outer solar system, ocean worlds

Enhanced image of Neptune’s moon Triton captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, showing a crescent-shaped, geologically complex surface with icy plains, ridges, and faint greenish and reddish hues.

SpaceNews · Mar 27China unveils planetary exploration roadmap targeting habitability and extraterrestrial lifeBy Andrew Jones

#china #space #exploration

RM @TokyoCityUrbex@pixelfed.social · 4d

RM @TokyoCityUrbex@pixelfed.social

The Old Store
This used to be a covered market selling all kinds of food supplies and other things, but now is mostly abandoned. I just love all the detail and design elements mixed together.
#japan #exploration #urbex #architecture

An old building in Japan with multiple small roofs and tons of jumbled up details.

#architecture

**Rock Paper Shotgun** @rockpapershotgun@die-partei.social · 4d

Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun@die-partei.social

RuneScape returns as an open world survival RPG in which you hunt a Dragon Queen - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/runescape-returns-as-an-open-world-survival-rpg-in-which-you-hunt-a-dragon-queen #RuneScape:Dragonwilds #Survival&Crafting; #Exploration #RPG:Action #OpenWorld #Fantasy #PC

Rock Paper Shotgun · 4dRuneScape returns as an open world survival RPG in which you hunt a Dragon QueenBy Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

**Paul Hammond** @PaulHammond51@fosstodon.org · 5d

Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51@fosstodon.org

Perseverance Rover moves a short distance away from Sally's Cove during mission sol 1461 (March 30, 2025). Just a few meters to site 71.120. Attached is one of the end-of-drive NavCam images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

#Mars #M2020 #Perseverance

**earthling** @appassionato@mastodon.social · 6d

earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map by Alex Hutchinson, 2025

New York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behavior and help us find meaning.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#neuroscience
#psychology
#exploration

Off the beaten path, following unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a need to get outside, the search for the unknown is a primal urge that has shaped the history of our species and continues to mold our behavior in ways we are only beginning to understand. In fact, the latest neuroscience suggests that exploration in any form—whether it’s trying a new restaurant, changing careers, or deciding to run a marathon—is an essential ingredient of human life. Exploration, it turns out, isn’t merely a hobby—it’s our story.

In this much-anticipated follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Endure, Alex Hutchinson refutes the myth that, in our fully mapped digital world, the age of exploration is dead. Instead, the itch to discover new things persists in all of us, expressed not just on the slopes of Everest but in the ways we work, play, and live. From paddling the lost rivers of the northern Canadian wilderness to the ocean-spanning voyages of the Polynesians to the search for next-generation quantum computers, The Explorer’s Gene combines riveting stories of exploration with cutting-edge insights from behavioral psychology and neuroscience, making a powerful case that our lives are better—more productive, more meaningful, and more fun—when we break our habits and chart a new path.

**Europe Says** @europesays@pubeurope.com · 6d

Europe Says @europesays@pubeurope.com

https://www.europesays.com/1953938/ BP, Shell, and Exxon Signal One Thing: Oil Isn’t Going Anywhere #BP #exploration #gas #GasPrice #LiquefiedNaturalGas #lng #LNGPrice #NaturalGas #oil #OilMajors #shell #upstream

**dem** @dmeissner@vivaldi.net · 6d *

6d *

dem @dmeissner@vivaldi.net

@pixel_dailies #exploration, with palette Aquaverse by SteelSoldier.
#pixel_dailies #PixelArt #pixaki

64x64 pixel art of a spaceship flying through space, with three planets and some stars in the background.

**Paul Hammond** @PaulHammond51@fosstodon.org · 6d

Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51@fosstodon.org

Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4493 (March 27, 2025). This composite image is assembled from 15 overlapping Bayer reconstructed L-MastCam sub-frame images.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Mars #Curiosity #MSL