Festive Space
On Monday 15th December I took part in the OU’s School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) Christmas lecture series. The audience was high school children aged between 12 and 16, parents, and teachers. My talk focused on my main research interest, which is searching for and analysing water in Moon rocks. After the talk there was an opportunity to bring out the meteorites. The kids were amazed that they were actually holding a piece of rock from Mars and asked some hard hitting questions about the prospect of finding life on Mars, and when and what future space missions might go to the red planet in search for life and when humans might go. As always Gibeon caught everyone’s attention, with the adults too, who didn’t believe the iron meteorite was as heavy as the kids made out! It was a great opportunity to engage with local schools about the space research carried out at the OU, and the impressive line-up of three planetary and space science talks (on the Moon, Mercury, and the Rosetta mission), followed by show-casing the meteorites and the comet 67-P and Ptolemy instrument models made for a brilliant event!
Jessica Barnes
Jess with Lunar Sample
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