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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
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This post was written by Arty Goodwin. ————— Howdy! This summer, I’m taking part in the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) Exploration Science Summer Intern Program, a 10-week internship that started at the end of May. I’ve been joined by … Continue reading
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Finally back home after a fantastic week in Arizona for the San Francisco volcanic field training program Seven months into my Ph.D., I was not prepared to have my first-ever trans-Atlantic trip or this opportunity in my first year. The … Continue reading
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Detailed analysis of individual grains of lunar rock has enabled us to investigate how samples collected by the Apollo 12 astronauts ended up on the surface of the Moon. The surface of the Moon is covered by a rubble-like layer … Continue reading
A fireball captured on cameras in the early hours of Thursday 14th April may have dropped a meteorite near Shrewsbury. Over the Easter bank holiday weekend scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance (UKFall) led a the search of the area … Continue reading
Its conference time again! The last in-person Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) was back in 2019, which now seems a lifetime ago, no-one had even heard the word Covid-19. In March 2020, people were busy preparing talks and posters, … Continue reading
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Back in October 2021, my first paper was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. I’d been working on the paper for about a year and a half so it was very exciting and a big relief to finally … Continue reading
When we think of missions to the Moon, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is probably NASA and the Apollo missions. But did you know, that between 1959 and 1976, the Soviet Union also sent a … Continue reading
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When I joined the Planetary Sciences group here at the University of Manchester, I never thought I’d be attached to any conference or a research community so much, but trust me when I say this, the vVMSG (virtual Volcanic and … Continue reading
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In January 2022, the Planetary Science and Volcanology Groups at The University of Manchester hosted the annual meeting of the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG), the UK and Ireland’s main venue for sharing research on volcanoes, the magma plumbing … Continue reading
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