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MIRI on the right tracks at NASA Johnson

https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/miri-on-the-right-tracks-at-nasa-johnson

UK scientists and engineers – including colleagues from our University - are celebrating following the confirmation that their instrument has performed very well during the cryogenic testing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA Johnson Space Flight Center in...

Space scientist makes giant leap towards becoming an astronaut

https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientist-makes-giant-leap-towards-becoming-an-astronaut

Space scientist Dr Suzie Imber from our Department of Physics and Astronomy will be competing to realise her dream of becoming an astronaut as part of a televised competition broadcast by the BBC.

Glocalism

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/glocalism/

Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Glocalism …a new peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, published every four months by the association Globus et Locus.

Arctic rocket launch could uncover unique features of Earth’s life-sustaining atmosphere

https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/endurance-launch

Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and PI for the Endurance mission said: “It’s one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it’s what Endurance is after.

Congratulations to Sarah Casewell and the Backyard Worlds Team

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/24/congratulations-to-sarah-casewell-and-the-backyard-worlds-team/

Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on June 24, 2021 Enormous congratulations to the Backyard Worlds Team, including Leicester scientist Dr. Sarah Casewell, on being the 2021 recipients of a Robert H Goddard award for science.

PlanetarySeminar: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Martian Magnetotail

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/11/planetaryseminar-unraveling-the-mysteries-of-the-martian-magnetotail/

Posted by mkj13 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on December 11, 2020 Dr Gina DiBraccio from NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre will be presenting a virtual seminar titled: “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Martian Magnetotail”.

Information

https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/information

Find further information in regards to the general project, including a list of the speakers involved, the background of the project and the recordings.

Conversations With… Dr Leigh Fletcher

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/29/conversations-with-dr-leigh-fletcher/

Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on April 29, 2021 Dr Leigh Fletcher is an Associate Professor in Planetary Science at the University of Leicester. He specialises in the research of Planetary Atmospheres and uses data from multiple sources for this purpose.

The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/28/the-nasa-jaxa-global-precipitation-measurement-mission/

Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on October 28, 2020 Leicester precipitation scientists Daniel Watters and Alessandro Battaglia outline how a NASA-JAXA mission addresses the challenge of global measurement of precipitation.

PlanetarySeminar: Geometry of Jupiter’s Magnetic Field & observability of Decameter Radiation in the

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/02/planetaryseminar-geometry-of-jupiters-magnetic-field-observability-of-decameter-radiation-in-the-juno-era/

Posted by mkj13 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on November 2, 2020 At 16:00 on Wednesday 11th November 2020, Dr Yasmina Martos from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will be presenting a virtual seminar titled: “Geometry of Jupiter’s Magnetic Field & observability of...