Dr Louisa Preston
@LouisaJPreston
Astrobiologist, Lecturer in Planetary Science @UCL @MSSLSpaceLab, Scientific Associate @NHM_London, @TEDFellow & Author
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http://louisa-preston.com 17-04-2012 02:11:34
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Gosh, what an honour to be part of a community of such inspiring and all-round-brilliant humans, championing equality and diversity in #STEM and bringing science alive and to the public.
Happy 30th Birthday British Science Week! ๐ฅณ ๐งฌ๐งช๐ฌ๐ญ๐งซ๐ฉโ๐ฌ
British Science Association #BSW24
Dr Daniel Olaiya Dr Shini Somara Dr Emily Grossman Huw James ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ Dr Josh Smalley Kimberly Mamta MBE, CEng, FIET ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฎ๐ณ๐บ๐ฒ Matt Green Professor Sue Black OBE Keynote Speaker ๐บ๐ฆ and Professsor Chris Jackon from Imperial College London, Jahee Campbell Brennan Wavey Dynamics, Dr Helen Sharman CMG OBE, Emilia Angelillo, Dr. Louisa Preston
Itโs open! Itโs open! And ready for its closeup. After successfully removing two final fasteners on Jan. 10, members of the @astromaterials team photographed the #OSIRISREx asteroid sample with a special technique to achieve super high-res images. go.nasa.gov/3U2bCoU
Take a look at the article by Natural History Museum which nicely explains the significance of the St. Bernard's High School Westcliff Orbyts project this year.
A big thank you to Thales Alenia Space Dr Louisa Preston Dr William Dunn
You can find the publication here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384โฆ
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/โฆ
Interested in a PhD on secondary impact craters on the Moon and Mars? You will be based in the Natural History Museum and supervised by Peter Grindrod Katherine Joy Gareth Collins and me! @stfcMatters funded. You ๐ฌ๐งor๐ช๐บ3yrs living in UK. Join us! nhm.ac.uk/our-science/stโฆ
A rainbow for Mars ๐
The Rosalind Franklin rover is getting a new instrument to maximise science on the Red Planet. Enfys, meaning rainbow in Welsh ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ, is an infrared spectrometer that will identify minerals for sampling and analysis on the martian surface.
๐ท The instrumentโฆ
We are providing more than ยฃ10 million to replace a Russian-made instrument on the ESA_ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover. ๐ด
The new instrument, named Enfys, will be led by Aberystwyth University with support from MullardSpaceScience, RAL Space and Qioptiq Ltd. ๐ ๏ธ
๐ gov.uk/government/newโฆ
Fantastic to be at Canadian Space Agency headquarters for the first ever in person meeting of the ๐จ๐ฆ Lunar Rover Mission Science Team. It's such a privilege to be part of such an amazing team! Canadensys Aerospace #ToTheMoon