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3.1415…It’s #PiDay and we’ve rounded up some numbers on @NASA’s research aboard @Space_Station: 3: number of new patents for familiar household products 14+: amount of plant varieties grown 15 hundred+: total flames ignited during the ACME experiment

☁️ Just clouds drifting through the Martian sky. These wisps were ~50 miles (80 km) above me & the height suggests they’re made of carbon dioxide ice. These digitally-enhanced images from one of my navigation cameras were put together into 8-frame GIFs. go.nasa.gov/3rTftG8

I’ve now been on Mars for a full (Earth) year! Many firsts on an ambitious to-do list: ✅ Collected first rock cores from another planet ✅ Served as base station for #MarsHelicopter ✅ Extracted oxygen from thin Martian air ✅ Set driving records More: go.nasa.gov/3GYiFoq

Here's what’s up in March! Mars, Saturn, and Venus are catching up mid-month, our closest open star cluster makes an appearance, and suns in other solar systems get time to shine. For more of what’s high in the sky, visit: solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatching/ho…