Last week NASA held a press conference to promote the publication of a paper in the scientific journal Nature about some odd, spotty rocks on Mars. The event was widely publicised. These strange blotchy features were found in Jezero crater by the Perseverance Rover. The lead author of the paper was Jeol Hurowitz of Stony…
Just about 8 hours to go before NASA’s Perseverance rover attempts the challenging task of landing on Mars. I am getting excited, but also a little bit nervous too. Such a great mission, so much at stake. I will be glued to NASA TV at 7.15 pm (UK time) when the live coverage starts, with…
Last Friday I went to the Science Museum in South Kensington with my nine-year-old son. We were on a mission! It had all started a few weeks earlier when we had gone to see the new Transformers movie being filmed in Oxford. Watching a movie in the making is a lot of fun and we…
Spot the difference! Glenelg in Scotland and on Mars. Our close planetary neighbours, the Moon and Mars, have been receiving a bit more coverage in the media lately. Well, OK, perhaps it’s not been an all-out deluge of publicity. Not really the journalistic equivalent of a feeding frenzy, I agree. But nonetheless, the news outlets…
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