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MMX mission to reveal the origins of the Martian moons

It was way back in the 1600s — immediately following the invention of the telescope — that moons around planets other than Earth were discovered. Jupiter’s four major moons were spotted by Galileo himself back in 1609 and 1610, leading his contemporary, Johannes Kepler, to hypothesize that the planet in between us and Jupiter — Mars — must have two moons of its own. Yet for centuries, no Martian…

MMX mission to reveal the origins of the Martian moons

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The Aberfan Disaster: a simple guide to what happened

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, I have reposted my (now unavailable) blog posts from a decade ago describing the tragedy. Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the terrible and tragic Aberfan landslide disaster in South Wales. Ten years ago I published a four part summary of what happened on that terrible […]

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