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GeoTalk: Matt Taylor of ESA’s Rosetta mission

July 15, 2016
GeoTalk: Matt Taylor of ESA’s Rosetta mission
Screenshot from the Rosetta mission cartoons. Credit: ESA. All Rosetta Mission videos are available on YouTube

In November 2014, space exploration history was made. Millions of kilometres away, orbiting a piece of ice and rock, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission sent its probe Philae to become the first spacecraft to soft-land on a comet. After the tense 7-hour wait that followed the separation from the main orbiter, a tweet confirmed that the little lander had successfully completed the fir ...[Read More]

Mars Rocks – introducing a citizen science project

November 25, 2015
Mars Rocks – introducing a citizen science project
Coverage of Martian imagery being used by the iMars project: found at www.i-mars.eu

GeoLog followers will remember our previous report on Citizen Geoscience: the exciting possibilities it presents for the acquisition of data, whilst cautioning against the exploitation of volunteered labour. This blog presents a Citizen Science platform that goes beyond data collection to analysis, specifically for geological changes in remote sensing imagery of Mars. Jessica Wardlaw, a Postdoctor ...[Read More]