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Hello readers, hope you all had a fun and exciting week. We sure did!! Yesterday we got our brand spanking new mass spectrometer to play with. I know a few of our bloggers are well up for testing its powers. … 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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Scientists saw the Earth from a new perspective on 24th October, 1946, when a V-2 rocket lifted the first ever space-bound camera above New Mexico on a short sub-orbital flight. From an altitude of 65 miles, a 35-millimeter motion picture … Continue reading
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This has been a controversial topic ever since Neil Armstrong took those famous first steps on the Moon back in 1969. Now rather than discuss the conspiracy and ‘hoax’ theories that are always put out there I figured I’d go … Continue reading
This week has been outstandingly busy here in the lab. We have been busy putting new parts on one of our spectrometers, shooting gold tubing with lasers (to hopefully work out a method of measuring the Hayabusa samples we are … Continue reading
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First off I’ll let you into a secret, my names Natalie and I’m a lunar geologist. You guessed it, I study moon rocks, and by rocks I mean small samples of grains and ‘dust’, but awesome nevertheless. My job here … Continue reading
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Being a lunar geologist pretty much nothing gets better than meeting someone who has walked on the Moon! Several members of the SEAES Isotope Group and I went to see a presentation by Charlie Duke, who was the Lunar Module … Continue reading
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Ever wanted to be a scientist and make an exciting new discovery? Want to be part of a community helping to analyse never before seen images of the cosmos or the Moon or the sea floor? Next time you want … Continue reading
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Yesterday we spent the day at Amazing Astronomy and Spacetacular, both part of Manchester Science Festival, at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). We were joined by other scientists, including some from BBC 2′s Stargazing Live and Jodrell Bank … Continue reading
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A group of us will be at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry tomorrow (28/10) as part of Manchester Science Festival 2011, the country’s most popular science festival. Come along to see moon rock up close, hold meteorites over … Continue reading
