Friday, 29 January 2016

Matt Taylor

Matt Taylor, British scientist with the European Space Agency will be visiting as a guest of Ewell Astronomy Society on Wednesday 10th February at 8pm.


He will be sharing his experiences of the Rosetta Mission to land on and analyse comet 67P. We hope he will share how the data returned is being processed and the conclusion so far.


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New images of Pluto

Before New Horizons the Hubble Space Telescope showed us the detail of Pluto's dark spot:


It's instructive to compare these images based on observations with the Hubble Space Telescope made well before New Horizons's arrival. They appear to record the large dark spot and possible the multiple streaks. Credit: NASA/ESA


After New Horizons we discovered so much more detail of Pluto, including these icy mountains which gave scientists many new puzzles to consider how they were formed.