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The Apollo 15 mission landed astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irvine onto the surface of the Moon on the 30th July 1971. The mission visited an area on the nearside of the Moon, to the SW corner of the Imbrium … Continue reading
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Written by: Arty Goodwin, University of Manchester When a huge meteor or comet hits into Earth, the resultant impact is similar to a huge explosion! Meteor collisions carve out craters into solid rock, scooping out and ejecting material over the … Continue reading
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Yesterday – on the hottest day of the 2022 – we had first light on our 360 degree all sky meteor observation camera deployed at the Jodrell Bank observatory site in Cheshire, UK. The new camera is the 2nd that … Continue reading
This Blog post was written by Joshua Snape, Romain Tartese and Katherine Joy. It was first published online for the Conversation. The research paper the blog discusses is X. Che, A. Nemchin, D. Liu, T. Long, C. Wang, M. D. … Continue reading
This is a guest Earth and Solar System blog by a brilliant Manchester area school student called Tarteel, who I was lucky enough to meet through the In2Science programme (this is a wonderful scheme to get more students into studying … Continue reading
NASA’s Voyager 2 mission was launched in 1977 along with its sister Voyager 1 mission to explore the outer Solar System and beyond. The Voyager 2 spacecraft took in a grand tour of flybys of the Jupiter (in 1979) and … Continue reading
If you can’t get out to travel around to visit your local astronomy society or see public talks on topics in Planetary Science don’t worry – there are loads of great places online you can watch / access talks given … Continue reading
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The Moon’s surface is covered by a layer of soil, known as regolith. This is an important boundary between the Moon and the surrounding space environment, where there are records of the Moon’s interaction with the solar wind, cosmic rays … Continue reading
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In October 2017 Katherine Joy and Romain Tartese from the DEES Isotope Group joined a joint French-Chilean led expedition to the Atacama desert in Chile to search and recover meteorites that will be used for scientific analysis. You can read … Continue reading
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This blog post has been written by Prof. Ian Lyon —————————————————————————————– Tiny crystals of zircon (ZrSiO4) are found in many rocks and have become the mineral for measuring the ages of rocks. This is because zircons contain relatively high amounts … Continue reading
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