I just remembered it’s meant to be summer. I’d completely forgotten.

Mare Tranquillitatis was NOT "probably once an ocean" The name Mare comes from when early astronomers mistakenly thought there were seas on the Moon, but we've known for a long time that they're lava-filled basins bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Georgina Rannard BBC Science News BBC News (UK)

Absolutely horrific decision and an inditement on so many levels. Years of work down the drain and many of us made career choices specifically predicated on this being a key mission in the roadmap to the Moon.

🌑 #OnThisDay in 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface, whilst Michael Collins piloted the Command Module in lunar orbit. Discover more about this amazing story National Space Centre this weekend.

📢 Job alert - geochemistry ICP-MS / IRMS Research Technician - permanent 📢 Join us in St Andrews! Closing date 20 Aug. More details: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/23… Earth & Environmental Science, St Andrews

Unfortunately I couldn't make the meeting in person as am still on maternity leave, but delighted to be a 2024 fellow of the Meteoritical Society

The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight and viewing conditions will generally be good, with clear skies for many of us and perhaps as many as 100 meteors every hour 🌠 A coronal mass ejection from the sun may also given an enhanced chance of seeing the aurora in northern areas

The aurora last night, beating out the cloud and light pollution of Manchester, with green and purple beams over the Lovell Telescope. flic.kr/p/2q9L5CL #jodrellbank #northernlights #aurora BBC North West

Interested in a postdoc at Carnegie Earth & Planets Laboratory? Applications for our 2025 Fellowships (in Volcanology, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Cosmochemistry, Planetary Science, Astronomy, and many other topics) are due November 1! jobs.carnegiescience.edu/jobs/carnegie-…

Reminder: We're Hiring! Join OU Electron Microscopy Suite Electron Microscopy Core Facility as a Project Officer. Deadline: 21 August 2024 - PhD in Geology/Mineralogy - SEM & EPMA expertise - Passion for microscopy Don't miss out—apply now! Apply now! twtr.to/9rPY4 #JobOpportunity

🦖 living it's best celtic life at #interceltique24 🎶🎶

It's #RainbowBabyDay🌈 For us, today is an opportunity to celebrate the beautiful babies born thanks to the ground-breaking research taking place at our centres and clinics. Find out more about what Rainbow Baby Day means to us: bit.ly/3sgtgJJ

Josh has written a nice article for The Conversation about newly published results from the #Chandrayaan3 mission, which support the theory that a magma ocean of molten rocks once covered the surface of the Moon 🌝

The very last steps of @LunarTrailblazer build. Lockheed Martin Space the team is successfully through environmental testing. As well as post-vibe test of solar array deploy: exciting to see the spacecraft move! Solar arrays are now back to flight-stowed. Ready for launch 🚀💪

Compilation of videos from the Philippines of the 1 metre asteroid 2024 RW1 burning up. It’s just the ninth incoming asteroid to be detected before atmospheric entry bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c0…

A long time in the making--today the new Netflix documentary, Apollo 13: Survival has been released. I'm proud to say that I and several of my collegues at apolloinrealtime.org helped with this film. It's all-archive akin to Apollo 11. youtube.com/watch?v=AsElYf…

Volcanic beads in the Chang'e-5 soils indicate lunar volcanism is active 120 Ma! Remote sensing found young lunar volcanism (<100 Ma) for years but in debate without samples, this is the 1st time extremely young lunar volcanic products discovered! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Just got some great second hand stuff from these guys, if you are in the mood to help a bookshop

NASA began distributing 8.2 kg of lunar rocks, representing about a third of collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts, to scientific investigators, #OTD in 1969. The lunar samples reshaped our understanding of the Moon and the entire solar system. go.nasa.gov/4ehmGp1