Women in Planetary Science Symposium

Yesterday evening a couple of hundred women and a handful of men gathered for the 4th Annual Women in Planetary Science Symposium at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. These symposia were started by Susan Nieber, who set up … Continue reading →

LPSC 2012

Well we made it!!! After hours of delayed flights, missed connections, fully booked alternatives, planes turned back due to faulty toilets, no sleep and extremely bad treatment at the hands of US Airways we got to Houston! 5 of us … Continue reading →

NASA’s Genesis Mission

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A few weeks ago I wrote a piece on this blog asking the question what is our solar system made of? I explained our need to know the composition of the starting material from which our solar system formed. The … Continue reading →

When art meets science…

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Hi, I’m Ashley, a researcher studying extra-terrestrial samples in the Cosmochemistry and Isotope Geochemistry group. Recently, along with my scientific research I’ve also been in contact with David Gelsthorpe, the curator of Earth Sciences at the Manchester Museum, to see … Continue reading →