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Earth & Solar System

A light-hearted look at news and views from the world of planetary science! Brought to you from the Earth and Solar System team at the University of Manchester. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog: earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, we catch up with some of our guests from this season and reflect on what inspired to peruse a career in planetary science. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, we catch up with the hosts to see what they've been up to over the last few months. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Dr. Tim Gregory (Bristol/BGS) talks to us about the challenges in dating some of the oldest solids in the Solar System. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Elliot Sefton-Nash (ESA) talks to us about what it's like project managing a mission to Mars. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Dr Candice Bedford, from the Lunar and Planetary Science Institute, talks about how terrestrial analogues are important for understanding sediments on Mars. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Candice Bedford from the Lunar and Planetary Science Institute talks about how terrestrial analogous are important for understanding sediments on Mars. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Naomi Rowe-Gurney from the University of Leicester talks about how data from the Spitzer telescope helps us understand the atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Dr Lee White from the Royal Ontario Museum talks to us about why understanding the shock history of meteorites is important.  Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Martin Suttle from the NHM talks micro meteorites and what they tell us about the solar system.  Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Josh Snape from VU talks Pb isotopes what they tell us about the formation of the lunar crust. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week, Tara Hayden and Tom Barrett from the OU, talks to us about measuring water across the solar system can help us understand the origins of water here on Earth. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Divya Persaud, from UCL, talks to us about how we render 3D images of the Martian surface! To view the video of this episdoe check out our YouTube channel. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Dr. Frances Butcher from the University of Sheffield  talks to us why Martian glaciers are important and how they relate to the glaciers here on Earth.  Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Áine O'Brien from the University of Glasgow talks to us about detecting organic compounds in Martian meteorites.  Follow Áine on Twitter: @aineclareob  To find out more about the roving with Rosalind project email the team at: rovingwithrosalind@gmail.com. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Dr. Brendan Mccormick Kilbride from the University of Manchester talks to us about some of the challenges studying volcanoes in Papua New Guinea. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem / Blog:  earthandsolarsystem.wordpress.com

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This week Dr. Ashley King from the Open University talks to us about why carbonaceous chondrites are such an important meteorite type to understand.  Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem /

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As we are in lockdown, this week we share tips, tricks, and stories about writing articles for journals. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem /

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Alas this week the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, TX was canceled. So instead the folk from Manchester talk to us about the science that they would have presented. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem /

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This week, Dr. Katie Joy gives us an update about this years UK meteorite hunting expedition in Antarctica. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem /

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This week Tom Harvey talks metal fragments and what they tell us about impacts on different planetary bodies. Follow us on Twitter: @earthsolarsystm. Follow us: Twitter: @earthsolarsystm / Facebook: @earthsolarsystem / Instagram: earthandsolarsystem /

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This week Helen Grant talks to us about stellar dust clouds and finding volatile elements in primitive meteorites. 

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This week Marc Alban Millet talks to us about some of the geochemical tools we can use to understand continental crust formation. 

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You're listening to The Cosmic Cast!  This week, Marissa Lo, Rhian Jones, Aimee Smith, and Margaret Hartley celebrate International Women is Science! 

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This week, we Dr. Mark Nottingham talks to us about how the lunar reoglith can tell us about how Solar wind has changed over geological time.

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This week, we share the highlights of the conferences we attended this month.

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This week, the team tackle your questions in this holiday special

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This week, David Gelsthorpe talks to us about what curation is like in the best museum in the north west of England. 

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You're listening to The Cosmic Cast!  This week, Sam Bell talks to us about how the size and shape of crystals in a lava flow tells us about its eruptive history. Sam uses a range of lab techniques to study samples of mare basalt collected by the Apollo 15 mission.

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This week, we Elliot Carter talks to us about understanding how slithers of oceanic crust ended up on land

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This week, we are joined once again by Dr. Romain Tartèse who is talking his recent field trip to the Atacama desert hunting for meteorites 

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This week, Cat Hayer talks about how we use satellites to monitor volcanic eruption.

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This week, Amaury Triaud talks about some of the challenges in exploring exoplanets You can read more about this work here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811074116

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This week, Rich Taylor talks about trying to find evidence of a magnetic field during the Hadean period. You can read more about this work here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811074116

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This week, Matt Varnam talks about what life is like as volcanologist in the field.

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This week, Ricci Bahia talks about how we know so much about Martian rivers!  

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This week, Ben Esse talks about why we monitor volcanoes and what life in the field is like. 

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This week, Dr. Eleanor Jennings talking about how we can study the deep earth by creating extreme pressures in a lab. 

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We catch up with what we got up to over the summer!

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This week we tackle some of your questions again, this time while eating some hot-wings!  

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This week Dr Geoff Evatt and Dr. Andy Smedley update us on how the Antarctic meteorite project is going.  

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This week we chat about some of the outreach events we are attending this summer. 

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his week Dr David Neave talks about what happens when you squash a rock!   

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This week Prof. Fin Stuart talks about his favorite noble gases!  

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This week we discuss how zircons from Mars indicate that water was on the surface of Mars as recently as ~250 million years ago. 

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This week Dayl Martin talks about ESA's curation facilities and about some of the challenges in making lunar and martian rock simulants.  

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This week ESA's Fran McDonald talks about visiting Meteor crater and what she gets up to at ESA.  

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This week Nat Curran talks about what it's like working for NASA. 

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This week we talk to Gunter Just about some of the engineering problems associated with digging on the Moon.  

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This week we tackle the fantastic questions submitted by you!

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This week John talks about how our views of lunar crustal formation is changing.

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This week, 2nd Year PhD candidate Emma Waters talks about why the halogens are important for understanding crustal recycling in the mantle.   

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This week, Dr Alastair Tait talks about microbes in meteorites and what it might take to find life on Mars.  

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This week, 3rd Year PhD candidate Zoltán Taracsák talks about field work in the Canary Islands.  

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This week, Jamie Gilmour talks about how we can use Xenon to understand what went on in the early Solar System. 

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This week, we are joined by 1st Year PhD candidate Marissa Lo to find out what makes her tick and about volcanoes on the Moon. 

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Fresh of a plane from Houston, TX we talk about our experiences at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science conference.  

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This week, we are joined by Dr. Elliot Sefton-Nash & Dr. Manish Patel who talk Martian exploration. 

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This week, we are joined by Dr. Richard Parker who is talking about the birth of solar systems. 

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This week, we are joined by Dr. Romain Tartèse who is talking about volatiles in the ancient solar system.   

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This week, Dr. Katie Joy talk about meteorite hunting in Antarctica.

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This week, hosts John, Tom, and Ricci talk about how they became planetary scientists

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