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Houston, we have liftoff – welcome to my first ever blog! My name is Dayl Martin and I am a current undergraduate student at the University of Manchester. I have just completed my third year of the four year MEarthSci … Continue reading
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Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, is a small rocky body that is only 0.45 times bigger than the Moon. We knew very little about Mercury until NASA’s Mariner 10 mission carried out three fly-by observations between 1974-1975, which … Continue reading
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Howdy readers!! now as the usually team for the weekly round up are busy in Houston, I’m going to continue the awesome work they’ve been doing… I hope Houston Voyager has ‘left’ the Solar System!! Voyager-1 spacecraft (NASA) was launched … Continue reading
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On Thursday March 14th a few of the Isotope and Cosmochemistry research group traveled down in the very early hours of the day to The Open University in Milton Keynes to attend the Geochemistry Group Research in Progress Meeting. Nat Curran, … Continue reading
The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) is rapidly approaching! We’ve got a large contingent going to the conference this year which means several exciting things for you, our readers! Starting on Monday the 18th March, we will be posting … Continue reading
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Hello readers!! This past month Sarah, Mark and myself have had the pleasure of being involved in two secondary school visits to SEAES, both year 8 classes. Now I say pleasure but being both mine and Marks first school visits, … Continue reading
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This week has definitely not disappointed, both within the lab and outside of it there has been an incredible amount going on in the field of planetary science. Within the lab, after several months of slow progress making the necessary … Continue reading
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A Quick and Easy Guide to Naming Your Near Earth Object Sighting! Many of the recent Russian meteorite related comments being banded round by the media and things like twitter that are just plain wrong, I though I’d post a … Continue reading
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Happy New Year! This is a continuation of my two earlier University of Manchester Earth and Solar System blogs here and here about being part of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) meteorite hunting team in Antarctica. The ANSMET program, … Continue reading
Hello readers! With the New Year you may notice a series of changes to the blog – we managed to draw in an outstanding 22,000 number of hits last year (Coincidentally, also the number of man-made objects being tracked by … Continue reading
