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NASA Mars engagement report

@NASAMars - 1.6M followers on X

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026.

Engagement

Per follower
0.097%
of 1.6M followers
Per impression
2.67%
58K views on a typical post
Reach
3.64%
of its followers see a post
Typical post
1.5K
interactions (median)
Saved
0.121%
70 bookmarks on a typical post
Posting rate
1.37/day
active 43% of days
Peak time
18:00 UTC
Monday

A typical post picks up 1.5K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.097%. Posts are seen about 58K times each, and 2.67% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.64% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 54% are part of a thread and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 32K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on October 25, 2026. Recurring tag: #hwhap.

Where this sits in the catalog

At 0.097%, NASA Mars sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,424 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.

p100.004%
p250.024%
p50 (median)0.143%
p750.677%
p902.55%
p9982.4%
Engagement rate as a share of followers, across the 204,424 accounts we have scanned enough to measure. The axis is logarithmic, because the top and bottom of this population are about 22,888 times apart and a linear axis would flatten everything below the median into a single point.
Show the percentile table
Engagement rate percentiles
PercentileEngagement rate
10th percentile0.004%
25th percentile0.024%
50th percentile0.143%
75th percentile0.677%
90th percentile2.55%
99th percentile82.4%

This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built

Posting timing

This account posts most often around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.

Engagement by hour posted, UTCTwenty-four bars, one per UTC hour. Each bar shows how posts published in that hour compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC.
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Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest hour: 18:00 UTC
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
Engagement by hour posted, UTC
Hour (UTC)Vs author medianPosts
00:00 UTC-1%89K
01:00 UTC-2%90K
02:00 UTC-3%88K
03:00 UTC-4%94K
04:00 UTC-5%76K
05:00 UTC-4%75K
06:00 UTC-5%86K
07:00 UTC-5%93K
08:00 UTC-4%108K
09:00 UTC-4%124K
10:00 UTC-3%129K
11:00 UTC-3%141K
12:00 UTC-3%154K
13:00 UTC-3%167K
14:00 UTC-4%173K
15:00 UTC-2%176K
16:00 UTC-3%171K
17:00 UTC-3%159K
18:00 UTC-2%149K
19:00 UTC-2%141K
20:00 UTC-1%131K
21:00 UTC0%116K
22:00 UTC-2%100K
23:00 UTC-1%90K
Engagement by day of weekSeven bars, one per weekday, Sunday first. Each bar shows how posts published on that day compare with their own authors' median engagement. Bars above the centre line ran higher than the median, bars below ran lower. A marker flags Busiest day: Monday.
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
Above the authors' own mediansBelowScale: plus or minus 111%Busiest day: Monday
Show engagement by day of week as a table
Engagement by day of week
DayVs author medianPosts
Sunday+5%393K
Monday+1%483K
Tuesday-2%520K
Wednesday-3%472K
Thursday-2%430K
Friday-3%447K
Saturday+2%393K
See what moves engagement across the whole catalogWhat counts as a good engagement rate at this size

Formats this account uses

Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.

This account's posting mix compared with catalog-wide effects
FormatThis accountCatalog effect95% intervalAccounts behind it
Image or video85% of posts+111%+108% to +115%34K
Outbound link38% of posts-41%-42% to -40%32K
Typical length-no effect-2% to -1%42K
  • 85% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
  • 38% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
  • Its average post runs 249 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.

These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.

Best tweets

  • Jul 3, 202611x their median

    Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸 Red (Mars), white (Moon), and blue (Earth) brought to you by the solar system. https://t.co/ggjzhkO596

    27K4.2K6501481.9M viewsView on X
  • Oct 6, 20263.7x their median

    📍Gale Crater, Aug. 11, 2026, 8:30 a.m. local Mars time. The Curiosity rover captures the Sun rising on crags known as yardangs, a scene that scientists have long been waiting to see up close. 1/2 https://t.co/NJQH9yNEYR

    4.7K8037478358K viewsView on X
  • Sep 1, 20263.3x their median

    The Curiosity rover has now been exploring the surface of Mars for more than 5000 Martian days! Each day on Mars, or "sol," is about 24.6 hours long. How did Curiosity and its team mark the occasion? By working, of course. 🪏 1/2 https://t.co/PaEkTBxiKQ

    4.5K5375532150K viewsView on X
  • Jun 3, 20263.2x their median

    LIVE: Leaders with NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission are providing an update on spacecraft operations and discussing the mission's accomplishments. https://t.co/dEw7GWe3JS https://t.co/QDrhHUQu5P

    4.0K72621626488K viewsView on X
  • Sep 16, 20263.1x their median

    Sunrise, sunset 🏜️ To mark Curiosity’s 5,000th Martian day on the Red Planet, the rover’s team created this postcard. It combines two panoramas, with blue colors representing images taken in the morning, and yellow colors for the images taken at dusk. 1/2 https://t.co/ibiWmU1bSL

    4.0K6587067216K viewsView on X
  • Oct 21, 20263.1x their median

    Still making tracks and doing science! Since breaking the all-time off-world driving distance record on Oct. 11, Perseverance has continued work on the Red Planet.  ½ https://t.co/mgAbeWX1oL

    4.1K503712179K viewsView on X
  • Aug 27, 20263.1x their median

    Running up that hill! Today, NASA’s Curiosity rover reached the pinnacle — so far — of its 14-year mission on Mars, when it marked an elevation gain of 1 kilometer in its ongoing journey from Gale Crater up the slope of Mount Sharp. 1/2 https://t.co/wZHUrz2PZR

    4.1K4977536152K viewsView on X
  • Jun 15, 2026

    On the 21st day of its mission in Mars's north polar region, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander used its scoop OTD in 2008 to reveal lumps of white ice under the surface of the rusty soil. Scientists watched how the ice sublimed over 4 days, concluding that it was likely water ice. https://t.co/z7L2HyuqaU

    3.0K4296725114K viewsView on X
  • Jun 25, 20261.8x their median

    Photo finish! 🏁📸 On June 14, Perseverance completed a Martian “marathon” by surpassing 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) of travel. The day before, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this view of the rover and its tracks from space. https://t.co/ju3nRTAGfm

    2.8K5064130124K viewsView on X
  • Sep 21, 20261.9x their median

    Sometimes following the water can lead to surprising places💧 A new study of data from Perseverance reveals that rocks in Jezero Crater were shaped by a complex sequence of ancient lakes, groundwater systems, and hydrothermal fluids. 1/2 https://t.co/HUFfQMHiYG

    2.6K305371788K viewsView on X

Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.

Recurring topics

#hwhap

The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.

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Reading these numbers

A typical post picks up 1.5K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.097%. Posts are seen about 58K times each, and 2.67% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 3.64% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 1.4 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 43% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video, 54% are part of a thread and 38% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 32K interactions, about 11x its own typical post.

What is NASA Mars's engagement rate on X?
NASA Mars (@NASAMars) has an engagement rate of 0.097%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,588,338 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
Is that a good engagement rate?
At 0.097%, NASA Mars sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,424 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
Does @NASAMars have real engagement?
There is not yet enough sample to rank this account against others of its size.
When does @NASAMars post?
Most posts go out around 18:00 UTC, and Monday is its busiest day, at roughly 1.37 posts per day across the measured window.

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