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Electric Earth, Polar Cooling, Solar Watch Begins | S0 News
Nov.1.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikR2eUFs1wA
https://x.com/SunWeatherMan
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
A Request for NASA to Release Scientific Data on 3I/ATLAS
October 31, 2025
During my recent podcast interview with Joe Rogan (accessible here), I had mentioned the unfortunate circumstances, under which NASA had not released for four weeks the images collected by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
These images were taken on October 2–3, 2025, when the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS passed within 30 million kilometers from Mars.
The images are extremely valuable scientifically because they possess a spatial resolution of 30 kilometers per pixel, about 3 times better than the spatial resolution achieved in the best publicly available image from the Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 21, 2025 (accessible here and analyzed here).
Whereas the Hubble image was taken from an edge-on perspective since Earth and the Sun were separated by only ~10 degrees relative to distant 3I/ATLAS, the HiRISE image offers a sideways perspective, valuable in decoding the mass loss geometry and glow around as it approached the Sun.
The delay in the data release was argued to be the result of the government shutdown on October 1, 2025. Nevertheless, conspiracy theorists suggested that it may have to do with evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in the HiRISE images.
When asked about it, I suggested that the delay is probably not a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence but rather of terrestrial stupidity. We should not hold science hostage to the shutdown politics of the day.
The scientific community would have greatly benefited from the dissemination of this time-sensitive data as astronomers plan follow-up observations in the coming months.
Joe Rogan suggested that I contact the interim NASA administrator, Sean Duffy. The following day, I corresponded with congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna regarding a related formal request from NASA.
Following our exchange, Representative Luna wrote a brilliant letter to NASA’s acting administrator Duffy. We all owe a debt of deep gratitude for the visionary support displayed by Representative Luna to frontier science through her letter, attached below.
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/a-request-for-nasa-to-release-scientific-data-on-3i-atlas-32d03580080a
https://www.livemint.com/science/news/3iatlas-interstellar-comet-live-tracker-how-to-see-it-when-it-peaks-11761747459563.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaAun27gftk (Joe Rogan Experience #2401 - Avi Loeb)
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/1984429159515607112
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favWG-v1tTE (The Angry Astronaut: 3I Atlas changes course!! (But it's not headed for Earth.))
NASA cuts dozens of Marshall Space Flight Center-based ISS jobs
Fri, October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM PDT
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (WHNT) — Congressman Robert Aderholt’s office confirmed NASA has cut dozens of International Space Station jobs based at Marshall Space Flight Center.
Aderholt’s office said several dozen contract employees connected with ISS were let go Friday. They said this is part of the transition as NASA prepares to deorbit the ISS in 2030.
Operations at MSFC with the ISS include communicating with astronauts to conduct experiments through the ISS Payload Operations Integration Center.
These are not the first cuts to come to MSFC this year. President Trump’s proposed 2026 budget included cuts to NASA’s staff and budget.
A few months ago, POLITICO reported that at least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees, including 279 employees at the Marshall Space Flight Center, were set to leave their jobs.
In February, Trump also directed federal agencies to lay off their probationary employees. At that time, a NASA spokesperson said it was complying with the U.S. Office of Personal Management (OPM).
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nasa-cuts-dozens-marshall-space-230843188.html
https://aderholt.house.gov/
Michigan, Purdue share a long NASA legacy. These astronauts were Wolverines or Boilermakers.
Nov. 01, 2025, 7:30 a.m.
ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan and Purdue will battle on land this Saturday for a football game. They are also longtime competitors in space travel, as well.
Numerous Wolverines and Boilermakers have gone to space over the last 60-plus years, consisting of NASA legends from Neil Armstrong to the Apollo 15 crew made up entirely of UM graduates.
Here are the astronauts from both universities. This does not include many other alumni that worked on the ground for NASA over the years.
University of Michigan
A pair of NASA space flights consisted of all UM alumni.
Gemini IV’s crew in 1965 included two Wolverines in James McDivitt and Ed White, both 1959 College of Engineering graduates.
That mission tasked White with “extravehicular activity,” or going outside the spacecraft to perform work on the shuttle. This was the first time that had ever been done.
As mentioned before, Apollo 15 in 1971 was another all-Michigan crew. James Irwin, David Scott and Alfred Worden manned the mission that would be the fourth successful Moon landing in American history.
The mission also marked the first space walk in deep space, the first use of a lunar rover and the first satellite deployment by a crewed spacecraft.
The crew was honored by the university’s Department of Aerospace Engineering in 2021 on the mission’s 50th anniversary.
Other astronaut alumni include:
Daniel Barry (NASA Group 14 in 1992)
Andre Douglas (NASA Group 23 in 2021)
Theodore Freeman, chosen to be a NASA astronaut in 1963 prior to his death in a training flight
Karl Henize (NASA Group 6 in 1967)
Jack Lousma (NASA Group 5 in 1966)
Donald Ray McMonagle (NASA Group 12 in 1987)
James Taylor, chosen for the Manned Orbital Laboratory program in 1965 prior to his death in a training flight in 1970
Purdue University
The most famous Boilermaker in space is obviously Neil Armstrong, a 1955 graduate of the aeronautical engineering program.
He famously was the first man to walk on the Moon with the immortal words “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
The Indiana university has a full list of its 30 astronaut alumni on its website. See full bios for each here https://www.purdue.edu/space/astronauts/
Another famous alumnus is Gus Grissom, a member of the “Mercury Seven,” or the original seven astronauts selected by NASA in 1959 for the United States’ first attempt at manned spaceflight.
He became the second American in space after Alan Shepard with a brief suborbital flight in 1961.
Grissom later flew in space in 1967 as a part of the Gemini 3 mission.
He died as the commander of the Apollo 1 mission in 1967 alongside fellow Purdue alumnus Roger Chaffee and Michigan alumnus Ed White when a flash fire consumed the spacecraft during a countdown demonstration test.
Grissom and Chaffee’s names are on two engineering buildings on the West Lafayette campus to this day.
Purdue also boasts six female astronaut alumni, including Sirisha Bandla, Beth Moses, Loral O’Hara, Audrey Powers, Janice Voss and Mary Ellen Weber.
https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2025/11/michigan-purdue-share-a-long-nasa-legacy-these-astronauts-were-wolverines-or-boilermakers.html