NASA closes some official social media accounts, including Rover curiosity

Nassa closing Many of the social media accounts run by the Directorate of Science Mission, including the official MARS PRESTCOSITY ROOR account on X. The Foundation says it made the decision to “make its work accessible to the public more, and avoid the possibility of excessive saturation or confusion.”

The “social media unification project” is partially focused on X, where there are dozens of NASA accounts related to specific tasks and fields of research. yet 29 accounts It is archived or unified with other accounts, including Marscuriosphere and nasapersevereIt represents two Mars in the organization. Participations about both tasks now will come from more generally nasamars. Some social media accounts will also say “to better in line with the new strategic framework,” NASA says, “It reflects a wider range or more direct contact with NASA’s basic initiatives.”

With “more than 400 individual accounts across 15 platforms”, it is not completely unreasonable for NASA to try to simplify things, but there is some estimated privacy when news and information comes from a more general account. The curiosity of NASA Mahboub, and the agency’s research in Mars was likely to be more famous because the social media account made the recognition of Rover easier.

In addition to social media accounts, NASA can go to next year with much lower resources in general. the Trump Management Suggested 2026 budget It includes about 6 billion dollars to finance NASA. Limited resources can cancel multi -planned tasks Washington Post ReportsIncluding sending a probe to Venus, taking metal samples of asteroids and studying gravitational waves with the European Space Agency.