Spacebot: Bots of Microsoft Teams

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2 min readMay 24, 2017

You know NASA’s astronomy image of the day? Of course you do. It’s easily one of NASA’s most popular websites. And you’re in luck — you can check out the astronomy image of the day right from Teams.

A screenshot of content produced by NASA Spacebot

But Spacebot’s cool features aren’t just limited to showing you the astronomy picture of the day. It can also return a random APOD (using the command @spacebot apod random) or the APOD from a specific day (using the command @spacebot apod yyyy-mm-dd).

And, even better — you can check out most recent images from the three Mars Exploration Rovers — Curiosity, Spirit, and Opportunity.

Microsoft Spacebot Rover photos on Microsoft Teams

And, if you can’t remember the commands (because there are a lot of cool ways to get picture and rover info) just send Spacebot a message with help, and it’ll throw back a list of all the features.

A status update from the Microsoft Teams Spacebot

Ready to get started? You can add Spacebot to your Microsoft Teams right here.

Add Emojify bot to Microsoft Teams

Coming soon — more of the Microsoft Team bots! Is there a bot you’d like to see on Teams? Let us know on Twitter! 🤖

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