What is a manned space programme actually for?
Category: ranting
I bet more people currently know the name of a valiant little Mars rover than know the names of the current astronauts on the ISS.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:40 PM • 29 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Category: ranting
I bet more people currently know the name of a valiant little Mars rover than know the names of the current astronauts on the ISS.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 7:40 PM • 29 Comments •
Category: by Anne
Recently published hydrogeology and geomorphology papers that make my heart sing
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 5:28 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 10th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: geology
On the 9th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:00 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: by Anne
The Earth's 23.44 degree axial tilt is the reason for the solstice and the seasons.
Posted by Anne Jefferson at 6:28 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: planets
Cassini sees sunlight reflecting off an extraterrestrial sea
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:30 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: geology
At least one camera was looking at the impact site in the right wavelength...
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Category: planets
Scientists get to play interplanetary bumper cars to search for lunar water.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 3:00 AM • •
Category: geology
Big subsurface ocean? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 1:58 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: geology
A fair number of extra-solar planets would fit right into our own solar system.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:31 AM • 9 Comments •
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