Frustrated at yet another scrub, the crowds head home from Kennedy. #Artemis1
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Behold! #ENDURANCE The lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest #Shackleton has been found on the floor of the Weddell Sea. After more than two weeks of searching, the project found the ship on Saturday. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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Some great capability on display from this morning. The European company is now operating sufficient radar satellites in orbit (14) to run a tightly controlled daily ground-track repeat across target scenes, eg #Fagradalsfjall #volcano. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e #SAR
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I think what we'd appreciate, Elon, is another of your presentations on where you think Starship is right now and how you see things developing. There's an IAC congress in October. You've performed there before; what about another turn?
"One of my favourite things was to watch people's faces when they walked up and looked at it. There is a feeling of awe that humans created this thing." Lee Feinberg, bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
Big bonus for . “Because of the… accuracy with which Ariane put us on orbit… we have quite a bit of fuel margin right now relative to 10 years. Roughly speaking, it's around 20 years of propellant.” Mike Menzel, mission systems engineer.
This is a big moment for me, personally. I've always considered myself to be a bit of a "water carrier" in science journalism, someone who worked hard to get the facts right without being a star writer. Today, a little sunshine falls on the journeyman. Thank you
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Congratulations to Jonathan Amos (@BBCAmos), @BBCScienceNews for being awarded the Angela Croome Award.
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The many colours of #Mars. has now drilled the surface of the planet 32 times to pull a sample for analysis.
I love it when your geology 101 turns up on Mars. The great geomorphologist G.K.Gilbert would be tickled pink to see the Kodiak butte in Jezero crater. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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The ship was found at a depth of 3,008m, about 7.5km southwards of the coordinates recorded by #Endurance skipper Frank Worsley. used Saab Sabertooth submersibles provided by to make the discovery and conduct the subsequent survey.
Ok! The image pipeline has been opened. This is the first rear hazcam with the translucent lens cap pushed off to give a much clearer view. And unless I’m mistaken, the high ground poking above the near Horizon is the Jezero delta.
The latest imagery coming in from Tongan islands is dispiriting. #TongaVolcano #tongatsunami
These images are from the high-resolution Pleiades satellite system
There's something about ancient rock art that gives you the goosebumps. Figurative cave painting is now pushed back to at least 45,000 years ago. Many more discoveries are coming from the limestone caves of Sulawesi. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi
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Keep your fingers crossed people, we have a serious anomaly on one of Europe's premier Earth-observation satellites, the radar platform #Sentinel1B. It's a power issue. First fix attempt failed. No data since 23 December. scihub.copernicus.eu/news/News00980
It’s a historic day. I’ve been in the London HQ of the BBC on and off since 1994. Today, it ends. Thanks for the memories.
This is it; this is the moment. is being instructed to begin the ascent of Hawksbill Gap. "The delta in Jezero Crater is the main astrobiology target of Perseverance," said deputy project scientist, Dr Katie Stack Morgan.
So now we have it. A full map of the caldera of underwater #Tonga #volcano Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai. And wow is it deep! Its base is 850m below sea-level. Prior to the eruption, the caldera bottom was at a water depth of 150m. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
24.9% - that's the area of ocean floor on Earth that has now been mapped to "modern standards". The new figure was released this morning by Prince Albert of Monaco at the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Assembly.
An additional 5.4 million sq km of new data -… Show more
This weekend "the impossible satellite" will cease operations. It's exceeded its design life and it's time for the mission to come out of the sky. When they were trying to build the wind profiler, engineers were told: "Stop! Just give up; you'll never find the… Show more
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It seems can’t help itself. A candidate galaxy with a redshift of 14 in the ongoing survey. Corresponds to an age for the Universe of about 280 million years after the BB. It’s been dubbed Maisie’s Galaxy. web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/ceersdata/pape
This is a pretty extraordinary photo when you think about it. The Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter in flight pictures the rover in the distance.
Sensors on during its 628mph run show that the airflow beneath the car went supersonic. It stripped the paint from an area three meters back from the front wheels.
I don’t have long left in my career, I guess. But when I do come to look back on all the things I saw, this moment will be a highlight. #JWST
OK. So I have a super treat for you. The UK's new polar ship is called the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough. What you might not know is that the great man has recorded all the onboard announcements. The voice!
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Cleaned up video of separating from its Ariane rocket. The imagery was captured by . Music by . Our last view of Webb. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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Wow! They are every bit as gorgeous as promised. The first images have been released from Europe's new geo weather satellite, #Meteosat12 Watch the clouds scurry across the Earth. This third-gen satellite should improve forecasting of hazardous conditions.
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Single best thing on the BBC today - The hidden colours inside volcanoes bbc.in/1j0hlQq Enjoy #geologyrocks
Britain is about to pass a significant landmark - at midnight on Wednesday it will have gone two full months without burning coal to generate power. My grandfather, a pit deputy at Lewis Methyr, would be astounded. Times change. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
While shiny new rovers grab the limelight, we shouldn't forget there's an old warhorse that continues to do its stuff. Curiosity is currently trundling across "Mont Mercou", a group of rocks on the northern flank of Mt Sharp. Image by NASA/JPL/UArizona
It is frankly bonkers. The idea that you can hurl an object 470 million km and get it to hit the intended target to within an error of a few hundred metres. #Mars
I've just been looking at a high-resolution version of 's radar image of the stranded #EVERGIVEN ship and what struck me is the detail visible not just on the ship but in all the bankside infrastructure. Look for what I assume are pontoons. 50cm SAR imagery 👏👏👏
It's not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth! bbc.in/ZwhEzW
.@planetlabs has opened its Explorer portal today to allow anyone to download an image map of the world's tropical forests. 64 countries resolved down to the individual tree canopy. Updated monthly. And Norway's paying to make all the data free.
When you have a constellation of more than 100 satellites in orbit, as @planetlabs does, you maximise your chances of getting a cloud-free opportunity above your target.
Making a mini-star on Earth. The #JET reactor smashes its own world record for fusion energy output. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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I think we should give three cheers to the Wilcock family of #Winchcombe. They were determined the #ukMeteorite should not go to a dealer, but to the ...to science. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e "We're absolutely thrilled... we can be a small part" in this story. 👏👏👏
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The super-impressive Nicky Fox becomes ’s new head of Science. A #Hertfordshire girl, she's still got her British🇬🇧accent, which will be great to hear during all those media briefings she'll now front.
Remarkable to think the UK now has two career astronauts, a para-astronaut, a reserve astronaut… and a sheep circling the Moon. Heady times indeed. “Go Ewe-k!” 🇬🇧
#MH370 search: bbc.in/VLPKx3 "There are volcanoes down there we've found which were unknown before" #Fugro
.’s first mission from UK 🇬🇧 soil will be known as “Start Me Up”. Dust off that Stones track for accompanying music. Preparations will pick up apace this week for what looks to be a November flight.
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Satellite mapping of earthquake faults has become a powerful tool, especially in the era of #Sentinel1a. (#Sentinel1c cannot get up quick enough!) Smart work here from - a UK institution making good use of an EU resource! bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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In Bremen to mark production of the "flight model" for Orion's European service module. (Behind scaffolding) #EM1
The rover is no more. Meet the #RosalindFranklin rover - the new name for the mission too Mars to search for life. #ExoMars
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A cow 🐄 will burp 500 litres of methane per day. Put enough cows together 🐄🐄🐄, and you can see the emission from space. 's hi-res sensors detected such an emission in California’s Joaquin Valley.
Emperor #penguins 🐧 use sea-ice for 8-9 months of the year to bring up their chicks. Crucially, the ice must remain into December/January to enable the chicks to fledge waterproof feathers. This didn't happen in the Bellingshausen last year. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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Behold the behemoth! A lot of hard work from the team over the past five years to produce this historic image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy.
Fossils found in Argentina represent the most complete giant sauropod dino ever discovered bbc.in/1CtHhA0
We now have VIDEO of that reconnaissance flight over #iceberg #A68a. There are some mighty fissures, and the sea around the berg is littered with bits and bobs. Watchout South Georgia! 🦭🐧 Read more: bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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Extraordinary video here of lava falling into a swimming pool.
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La lengua de lava del proceso eruptivo de La Palma arrasa con todo a su paso en su camino hacia el mar.
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Good morning from the deck of the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough, which is in #Greenwich to mark #COP26 and to feature in the #IceWorldsGreenwich exhibition. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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We will be using satellite data in our News coverage today. The radar imagery really underlines the scale of the flooding. Truly awful conditions for people to have to endure. Whatever you're doing today, spare a thought for them. #HurricaneDorian
Imagine how "spectacular" UK science would be if it received the sort of funding our major international competitors now invest. Sir Paul Nurse at this morning's @CommonsSTC hearing on UKGov R&D plans ahead of next week's budget/CSR.
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Jaw-dropping bathymetry retrieved from around #AnakKrakatau. Huge blocks of rock, some 90m high, now litter the seabed. This is the material that formed the volcano's southwest flank and collapsed into the ocean. #AGU19 bbc.com/news/science-e
The spacesuit. Fully tested, says Musk: "Incredibly hard to balance aesthetics and function. Easy to do either separately."
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The whole image I have is half a gig and shows a vast swathe of Beirut, but the thing that caught my just across from the site of the blast is the ship that has been turned over.
25 years ago, science couldn't answer the question: is Antarctica melting? It can now - definitively. And thanks in large part to satellites, it's even possible to say very precisely where, when and how.
A truly astonishing fossil site in North Dakota. @DrPhilManning tells me: "If you truly wanted to understand the last days of the #dinosaurs, this is it." bbc.co.uk/news/science-e #Chicxulub
Well, I guess that means tears of joy. I think we just bagged comet. checks now ongoing but it appears to be alive on the comet.
France has been lined up to build the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO). This is the satellite that brings Mars rock samples collected by back to Earth in 2031. Here's the official Airbus artist's impression.
Here are the full Pleiades images of HT-HH before and after. We got a glimpse of the change yesterday from the Sentinel-1 radar data but the "after" optical view from today, albeit partially cloud obscured, underscores it all. #TongaVolcano #tongatsunami
So, you know how were always a little coy when talking about how they'd get materials manufactured in orbit down to Earth? They've now given us a little peek behind the scenes of their stealthy works. Introducing the Pridwen heatshield! 🏴
The pictures of #RRSSirDavidAttenborough in the Antarctic are bonkers beautiful. The ship conducted ice trials in January to prove it meet the design specifications. The folks at built a very fine ship. ❄️ bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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A little more detail on the visibility of #CrewDragon this evening in the UK, assuming the launch goes ahead. ISS comes over first (at the time of launch), followed by the capsule about 25 mins later. ISS will be closer to the horizon. Info from www.heavens-above
This is the chart that should concern us, showing La Nina waters now are warmer than El Nino waters 40 years ago. Mark Eakin: "There basically are no cool years anymore; there are just years that aren't too hot." #coralbleaching
We are go! The first orbital launch from UK soil is targeted for Monday night. #LauncherOne Rocket drop may occur just after midnight, just southwest of the Irish counties of Kerry and Cork. #CosmicGirl bbc.co.uk/news/science-e #StartMeUp
Behold! The finished #RosalindFranklin rover. A nine-month assembly but more than a decade of development by teams across Europe , Russia and the USA as part of the project. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e Great photo !
Applause for these women, who squeezed their way into a cave for an extraordinary discovery bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
Pollution has no borders. This is how nitrogen dioxide moves across Europe. Animation produced by (CAMS). : "The amount of satellite and in-situ data that we get has no equivalent."
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"You can see a porthole that is Shackleton's cabin. At that moment, you really do feel the breath of the great man upon the back of your neck," says Mensun Bound marine archaeologist
Some more of those final views of just prior to, and during, encapsulation on Saturday. 📸 M. Pedoussaut and S. Corvaja. held a launch dress rehearsal yesterday. Flight readiness review planned for tomorrow.
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And here's proof. An image from Elysium Planitia. If it looks a bit scruffy it's because the translucent lens cover is still on. A lot of dust kicked up.
I’m not sure this is the right inspiration vehicle. An Prime model or a mock-up would have been a better “show and tell” than a replica of this failed vehicle.
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Blast off! 
We’re in Southampton for the launch of our #SpaceForEveryone tour.
Come to West Bargate to learn more about space careers and stand next to a 72ft replica of a rocket!
Learn more about the tour 
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We’re in Southampton for the launch of our #SpaceForEveryone tour.
Come to West Bargate to learn more about space careers and stand next to a 72ft replica of a rocket!
Learn more about the tour gov.uk/government/new
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The satellite Sentinel-1B is still not responding to treatment. The power failure that knocked it offline in December affects the C-band radar antenna in both the main and back-up chains. It's very unusual for both power unit chains to go down at the same time.
There is a limited window for the UK to grab the advantage here. We’ve been talking about a #spaceport for the best part of a decade. It’s now or never. #FIA18 bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
This model of the #Chicxulub #crater formation covers less than 10 mins. Look at the km scale. Colossal doesn't begin to describe it #Exp364
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Simply stunning. 😍 First image of Mars from . Olympus Mons is down there. So much more of this to come. MBRSC/UAE Space Agency
#Phosphine at #Venus. If you want me to put money on it, I'd say there's an abiotic pathway that simply hasn't been identified yet. The team has worked very, very hard to find it, and is now asking the worldwide scientific community: "What have we missed?" bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
Nice one, Stanny! Not every day you get to launch a 21m-rocket to space. Flt Lt Matthew Stannard deservedly tastes the bubbles at the end of 's latest mission. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e
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