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*checks wiki*

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

In honor of Moon Day Monday 2026 (the day of the first lunar landing!), please enjoy this lovely lady painted in ink 🌕🌑🖤🤍

Maybe im soft, but something about space travel makes me a little emotional. When you put humans up there to go see what they can see, no matter who they are, they seem to remember what magic is. They feel wonder that is usually experienced for the last time when we're still children, and through them we feel it, all the way down here on earth.

We are so small, and experiences things that are so much bigger than all of us and we still find it beautiful. We all look up, we wave.

"Hello!" Say the humans, reaching out to the inky, color spattered expanse that beckons us with open, infinitely vast arms. "We're coming up to meet you!"

Have some photos from our visit to NASA Space Center last month!