I recently visited the European Space Agency (ESA) at the Harwell campus in Oxfordshire with Katherine Joy, Romain Tartèse, and fellow PhD student Gunter Just. Harwell is the site of the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), ESA’s … Continue reading
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We've had a wonderful weekend @bluedotfestival showing off our meteorites, microscopes, and volcano experiments! There was no better place to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing 🚀🌚 . Stay tuned for more photos and videos from the festival over the next few days! . #bluedot #festival #outreach #science #volcano #volcanology #trashcano #experiment #geology #geologyrocks #space #spacerocks #meteorite #meteoritehunt #moonWe're showing off something new this weekend @bluedotfestival... Our trash-cano! 🌋 We'll be at the Big Bang Stage tomorrow, at 2:15pm, for our show "Volcanoes: what makes them go bang?". In our show, we'll be doing lots of live experiments to explain how volcanoes work - with our liquid nitrogen trash-cano as the finale! Photos taken by Katherine Joy. . #bluedot #festival #outreach #science #volcano #volcanology #trashcano #experiment #geology #geologyrocks #explosion #bigbang #manchesterIt’s another meteorite! (Astronaut for scale). This is a piece of Seymchan, a pallasite similar to Admire, a picture of which is a few posts back. Keen-eyed meteorite fans might notice that this sample lacks the brown-green olivine crystals that are typically observed in pallasites. This section comes from a region of the meteorite without these crystals, where the sample is instead dominated by the reflective silver-grey metal. It is a really interesting example of sample heterogeneity. A closer look at the sample reveals the beautiful Widmanstätten patterning which forms as the metal cools and crystallises out into slightly different iron-nickel minerals! These are just the tip of the iceberg - come along to our stall in the Star Field @bluedotfestival this Friday-Sunday to discover more about the amazing world of meteorites and planetary science - the Moon and Mars included! . #space #spacescience #astronaut #meteorite #planetaryscience #geology #crystal #science #research #spacerocks #geologyrocks #bluedot #festival #outreachT-minus 4 days until @bluedotfestival 🌍🚀 We'll be in the Star Field all weekend on our stall "Space Rocks". Come say hello: we'll have meteorites from the Moon and Mars, a fun meteorite game, some freebies, and some real Apollo samples! 🚀 We'd also like congratulate Jodrell Bank for recently being recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site! Finally, happy Apollo 11 launch day! What an exciting time for lunar science this is 🌚 . Photo taken by Marissa Lo at last year's bluedot festival. . #jodrellbank #bluedot #festival #starfield #moon #lunar #mars #science #astronomy #planets #space #spacerocks #meteorite #meteoritehunt #apollo #apollo50 #apollo11 #rocket #nasa #esa #telescopeThe volcano is almost complete. Expect exciting eruption proxy videos soon! We have a volcano show at 2:15 on Friday 19th @bluedotfestival so come along and watch it go! We’ll also have a stall with a range of extraterrestrial samples to look at, in addition to the expertise of the Earth and Solar System group demonstrators - you can find us in the Star Field! 👩🏼🚀👨🏽🚀 . #geology #geoscience #volcano #outreach #geologyrocks #demonstration #bluedot #festival #lava #magma #earth #scienceAmethyst the astronaut (for scale) checking out some of the group’s interesting meteorite samples. This is a piece of Admire, a pallasite meteorite (made of reflective iron metal and translucent green-brown olivine crystals), found in Kansas in 1881. These meteorites are thought to have formed at a planetary body’s core mantle boundary, or through the impact-caused mixing of metal and silicate mantle materials! These are especially beautiful samples, which we’ll be showing off @bluedotfestival next weekend! . #space #spacescience #astronaut #meteorite #planetaryscience #geology #crystal #science #research #spacerocks #geologyrocks #bluedot #festival #outreachEarth and Solar System on YouTube
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