Some of us living in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to view a solar eclipse on Friday 20 March 2015. Most people will only see a partial eclipse, but some lucky people living in a particular region will experience a total eclipse. When this happens the Sun is completely obscured and it goes dark during the period… Continue reading Solar Eclipse 20 March
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The Moon e-booklet
Best wishes to all my readers and followers, I hope you enjoyed reading my previous post on dark matter, which is part of my series on cosmology, the study of the origin an evolution of the Universe as a whole. As you may recall in May/Jun last year I wrote series of 5 closely linked posts on the Moon.… Continue reading The Moon e-booklet
45th Anniversary of first Men on the Moon
Welcome On Sunday (20th July) it is the 45th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing. To commemorate this. I thought that I'd re-post my article from 4th June which discussed the first Moon landings. I hope you enjoy reading or re-reading it. My next article, which I will post next week, will be on… Continue reading 45th Anniversary of first Men on the Moon
Living on the Moon.
For centuries novelists have written about humans living and working on the moon. One of my favourite science fiction novels is "A Fall of Moondust" by the British author Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008). It was written in 1961, before man had ventured into space and when we knew very little about the Moon's surface, but set in the… Continue reading Living on the Moon.
Chinese Manned spaceflight
Welcome Welcome to the latest post from the Science Geek. The topic of this post, which is part of a series about the Moon, is the Chinese manned space programme. As I said in my last post, sadly it is now nearly 42 years since the last Apollo astronauts lifted off from the Moon's surface… Continue reading Chinese Manned spaceflight
Explaining Science 