Our Orbyts team worked super hard in our free time to write our first Impact report based on the last 6 years of programme evaluation, so we're mega excited to share it with you: orbyts.org/impact

Great evening talking to Chalfont cub scouts about Lunar Exploration #womeninstem #cpsnews #ukpf Lots of great questions 🛰️🚀🌒 thanks for inviting me🙏

#BPSCLeicester A reminder that anyone can join our community session later this morning and hear about community opportunities. Find the Teams link here: bpsc2024.le.ac.uk/programme/

Posters are up and the place is buzzing with excitement! The lightning talks are starting soon so get ready to see what the students have been up to these past few months! ⚡️⚡️

We're excited to host the UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences' 14th Summer Meeting tomorrow 4th July at UCL! 🪐🚀✨🌞 🌱Our annual internal meeting to get together & share all of the amazing planetary science happening EarthSciences UCL UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences MullardSpaceScience UCL Centre for Space Exochemistry Data Birkbeck School of Natural Sciences...

With prizes for best student/ECR talk and poster 🏆 We will also be announcing the winners of the CPS Outreach And Engagement Awards 2024 ! 🌟 Obviously, there's some other important voting going on in the UK tomorrow too - don't forget to cast yours! 🗳️ #CPSSummerMeeting24

A quick refreshment and some posters and we’re back! With Dr Catherine Regan 🛰 presenting the Final Evaluation of the wonderful Eyes on Mars STEM engagement project 🤩

Latest UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences group photo! The sun was shining (into our eyes 😄) for the 14th Summer Meeting #CPS2024 📸🪐 ☀️😎

And that's all from the UCL/Birkbeck CPS Summer Meeting 2024! It's been a fantastic day of talks, posters and discussion, and so nice to see lots of colleagues together. A huge thanks to all our speakers, chairs & attendees! 👏🪐☀️🪐👏☀️ #CPS2024

📢 Announcing the winners of the CPS Outreach & Engagement Awards 2024, presented at our recent Summer Meeting 🤩 Winner: Alex Thompson, PhD student at UCL Astro UCL Centre for Space Exochemistry Data UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences For founding & implementing the Orbyts STAR programme in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children 👏👏

Runner-up: Connor J Ballard, PhD student MullardSpaceScience For Connor’s Orbyts research work with an all-girls school, leading an exciting Mars Balloon astrobiology project in conjunction with Thales Alenia, and publication of their results 👏👏 doi.org/10.3847/2515-5…

Special Recognition awards: 1) Anna Parsec-Wallis Anna Parsec-Wallis, PhD student MullardSpaceScience For Anna's recent involvement in the Astrogazers engagement project at Croydon High School for Girls, designing and building the Pegasus CubeSat mission 👏

4) Becky Warrilow, PhD student MullardSpaceScience For enthusiastic delivery of her ‘Reconstructing ancient river processes on Mars to identify past habitable zones’ Orbyts project. The group had a remarkable result disproving some earlier published research by MIT. 👏

Come and see some fascinating fossils at the Visitor Centre in #Denham on Friday 26th July 11am-3:30pm and learn all about them from experts at Harrow & Hillingdon Geological Society A hands-on practical demonstration accompanied by an exhibition. Book here colnevalleypark.org.uk/events/fossils…

We have great pleasure in announcing the winners of our Student Presentation Prizes from our Summer Meeting on 4th July. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for helping to make such a successful event! 👏🤩🎉🪐 ucl.ac.uk/planetary-scie…

Last few tickets remaining for our Stargazing event in September in association with Colne Valley Park West of London Astro Woodoaks Farm South West Herts Astronomical Society 🔭🔭

Plus, bonus content: you get to be part of the UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences! 🤩 One of the UK's leading centres for planetary and exoplanetary science. Join us! ✨

Excited for our Stargazing event on Thursday with Colne Valley Park Chiltern Society Woodoaks Farm West of London Astro South West Herts Astronomical Society. Looking forward to the opportunity of observing Saturn, Dumbbell and Ring Nebula, Andromeda galaxy and more 🔭🔭🌖🪐🌌

Wonderful evening of Stargazing at Woodoaks Farm on Thursday: we had clear skies, observed Saturn, Andromeda galaxy, the ISS and lots more. The astronomers West of London Astro & South West Herts Astronomical Society and attendees all went home happy Chiltern Society

Great evening talking to Chalfont St.Peter 1st Brownies about the Moon and Lunar Exploration #outreach #worldspaceweek2024 #STEM We had fun making a Moon model and had loads of good questions along the way🚀🛰️🔭🌒 thanks for inviting me.