ATV Tweetup in Toulouse

The space tweeps with astronaut Paolo Nespoli (photo credit ESA)

Witnessed the docking of the ATV-3 to the International Space Station, 
live in Toulouse, after this tour of the control room.

Highlights video (credit ESA)

APEX lecture at UCL

Dr Nick Achilleos - The Warping of Saturn's Plasma Sheet

APEX lecture at UCL

Camilla Danielski, Marcell Tessenyi and Morgan Hollis - Atmospheric Characterization of Exoplanets, The EChO Space Mission and A Bayesian Catalogue of Exoplanets

RAS lecture

Dr Ian Crawford - The Far Future of the Sun, Earth and Life in the Solar System

APEX lecture at UCL

Dr Lewis Dartnell - Breakdown of Organic Biosignatures on the Martian Surface

Ice Hotel

               

EISCAT antenna & Abisko

             

Aurora borealis

Arctic Science course in Kiruna, Sweden

Stepped off the plane into -32 degrees C at nearly midnight. The first picture below is the view from my window, pink sunrise.
Here is the Arctic Science course schedule for the week.

                         


                                   

RAS lecture

How the space age has changed our view of the universe

Professor David Southwood
Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House