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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Have you ever seen bubbles behaving like this?! 🤯 This chain of bubbles was created by injecting air into a polymer solution. The very gloopy solution is called Cellosize, and it is used as a gelling agent in cleaning and cosmetic products. What does this have to do with science? Well, some volcanologists think that studying the conditions under which these bubble chains form could tell us about how active volcanoes release gas over time 🌋 This video was taken by PhD student, Marissa Lo, who is going to be running these experiments up at @duruniearthsci for a couple of weeks! 👩🏾⚕️ . #experiment #geology #geologyrocks #earthscience #PhD #phdlife #womeninstem #volcanology #volcano #eruption #research #manchester #mcr #durham #universityHappy #thinsectionthursday! 🔬 Today we have a beautiful slice of Martian shergottite, NWA 7937. Shergottites are a basalt-like rock which are thought to have formed approximately 200 million years ago on the Martian crust. This sample exhibits zoned clinopyroxene poikilitically associated with small olivine crystals as well as plagioclase! Scale: ~2.5mm across. Thanks to Dr. Rhian Jones for supplying this fantastic image! . #thinsectionthursday #geologyrocks #geology #spacerocks #space #mars #basalt #petrology #science #planetaryscience #meteorite #colour #crystal #microscope #manchester #uniToday, Dr Sarah Crowther has been preparing laser dye solutions! 👩🔬 . Most lasers operate at fixed wavelengths, but often we need laser light at a different wavelength, or to be able to change the wavelength of the light 💡 Dye lasers use a solution of dye to produce different wavelengths of light from a starting fixed wavelength laser – this gives us the ability to “tune” the laser to exactly the required wavelength. Laser dyes are large organic molecules dissolved in a solvent, such as methanol. But they only last a relatively short time and have to be replaced regularly – think of it as having to feed the laser, or give it a drink, on a regular basis! We use lasers to ionise xenon and krypton ions in our RELAX and RIMSKI mass spectrometers. . Thanks to Dr Sarah Crowther for this awesome photo! . #lasers #science #chemistry #geochemistry #massspectrometry #lab #planetaryscience #astronomy #space #geology #spacerocks #geologyrocks #xenon #krypton #mcr #manchester #universityIn case you missed it, the Cosmic Cast have a new video... It's a planetary science Q&A, with a spicy twist 🔥☄️ . This is the final Cosmic Cast episode for the summer - we'll be back in a month or two with lots more interesting geology and planetary science videos! 🚀 Thanks to everyone who submitted questions at our @bluedotfestival stand and on twitter! Feel free to comment with questions on any of our posts and we'll answer them in a future question and answer video. . #podcast #PhD #research #space #science #geology #planetaryscience #geologyrocks #spacerocks #thecosmiccast #manchester #hotones #hotwings #hotsauce #spicy #challenge🌋 Whoosh, look at that volcano go! 🌋 We had a great time doing our volcano show on the Big Bang Stage @bluedotfestival. Here we have the classic Mentos and Diet Coke volcano which reached over 6 foot in height! 🤯 . #bluedot #festival #outreach #science #volcano #volcanology #geology #earthscience #eruption #experiment #coke #mentos #bigbang #manchester #mcr #universityOne of the few dry moments from @bluedotfestival 🌤️ . We've just uploaded a vlog with our Bluedot festival highlights onto our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/2wLqJpDboVQ Give it a watch to see what sorts of things we get up to when doing outreach 👩🏼🔬👨🏾🚀 . #jodrellbank #bluedot #festival #outreach #science #volcano #volcanology #geology #earthscience #planetaryscience #geologyrocks #thecosmiccast #spacerocks #meteorite #youtubeEarth and Solar System on YouTube
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