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David Rothery
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University (UK). BepiColombo science team and volcanologist.
A newly minted Open University PhD. Congratulations Dr Annie Lennox!
June 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#PlanetParade had been overhyped, but here are Mars, Jupiter, Venus and last of all Mercury lurking at the lower edge of the band of grey cloud at tree top height. Video shot at 18:37 this evening.
February 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
#PlanetParade has been grossly overhyped by lazy journalists and colleagues keen to get on air. I caught sight of Mercury at 18:27 but Saturn was already too low. See pics. Venus is easy in the first 2, but you won’t spot Mercury except in the 3rd, magnified view. (Mars & Jupiter were lovely though)
February 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Who else is wearing a #Churchill scarf today?
January 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
This is “Mercury confiding the infant Bacchus to the nymphs” by F Boucher, which I saw today at the Wallace Collection. Note the snakes wrapped around Mercury’s staff, which is why faculae on the planet Mercury are named after “snake” in a different language each time.
January 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Mere twilight, or where the shadows lie.
Here’s a view of permanently shadowed Tolkien crater at Mercury’s North Pole from yesterday’s flyby by BepiColombo. Story at www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
January 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Captain, my captain! Great to see Diarmaid MacCulloch on University Challenge after nearly 50 years, and this time with his name spelt right.
December 30, 2024 at 5:18 PM
#BepiColombo MCCAM image from today’s (5th) #Mercury flyby at a range of 51000km. If you zoom into the pic you can see the whole of the Caloris basin. Its floor is covered by relatively bright lavas. The dark spot is Atget crater, exposing Low Reflectance Material. North is towards the bottom.
December 1, 2024 at 9:01 PM
@geolsoc.bsky.social panel discussion: “What does it take to get involved in space missions?” live right now: Jack Wright, Philippa Mason, Richard Gail, John Bridges.
November 15, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Great presentation on Mercury by the Open University’s Jack Wright to kick off @geolsoc.bsky.social Geofutures conference, with good advice to early career researchers
November 14, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Mercury geological mapping at the Open University: checking agreement at quadrangle boundaries
November 12, 2024 at 4:53 PM