Planetary Scientist @ University of Leicester. STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow. Editor of JGR Planets. Lead Scientist of ESA M7 candidate M-MATISSE
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ALT Plaque commemorating Beagle 2, the first British and European spacecraft to land on another planet on 25 Dec 2003.
ALT An artist's concept of the MAVEN spacecraft, a metallic cube with square solar panels on either side, above the red planet Mars. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
ALT A tall, slim rocket is lifting off from a launchpad. Bright light bursts from the bottom of the rocket, and smoke billows all around the lower half of the frame.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
