The government shutdown has ended! That’s great news for a lot of reasons, but one of the things we’re most excited about is the return of all the NASA Twitter accounts to our feed. We’ve pulled together a few of the welcome back Tweets from some of the many, many NASA accounts.
The main @NASA account put up its first tweet in weeks early this morning:
We’re back and in the process of turning things back on! http://t.co/IpvHUzr4tm and #NASA TV will be up as soon as possible!
— NASA (@NASA) October 17, 2013
They even thanked us all for using #ThingsNASAMightTweet and updated the hashtag:
Thanks to the 5+ mil. of you who follow us & those who filled in w/ #ThingsNASAMightTweet while we were out. Now it’s #ThingsNASACanTweet.
— NASA (@NASA) October 17, 2013
And as of an hour ago they’re back to sharing space news. This time with update on the comet ISON:
A new @NASA_Hubble image of comet ISON suggests its intact despite predictions it might disintegrate! http://t.co/AEWEP7O5Gl
— NASA (@NASA) October 17, 2013
Welcome back, @NASA! The return of NASA tweets also means the return of our favorite NASA account, @MarsCuriosity. She’s back with a new photo to share from Mars:
Allow me to reintroduce myself. I’m back on Twitter & even closer to Mars’ Mount Sharp. http://t.co/GVWZBA5lvx
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) October 17, 2013
The @NASAJPL team is back as well. They heralded their return with some infrared images from the Cassini mission:
And now back to our regularly scheduled tweeting. Let’s start with cool infrared images from @CassiniSaturn http://t.co/wV3xR8ZgAM
— NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) October 17, 2013
Welcome back, NASA Twitter accounts. We’ve missed you. A bunch. Go do some science!
(via NASA on Twitter)
- @SarcasticRover did a pretty job of tweeting during the shutdown
- The shutdown didn’t stop the NASA Juno Mission
- Juno used “gravity assist” a concept that could literally save the planet from the Sun exploding
