Given all the talk about the Moon recently, you’d think there was a significant anniversary in the history of space exploration approaching.
You’d be correct, of course. The Apollo 11 mission launched on 16 July 1969 and its Eagle module landed on the Moon a few days later on 20 July, making 2019 the 50th anniversary of a human being setting a first foot on the moon.
Traveling on business as I have been recently, it hasn’t taken long for me to fall behind on keeping you all up to date on what Mark’s been reviewing over on his blog. As it turns out, he been quite busy indeed! He’s published three full book reviews since we last checked in on him.
Episode 85 of Palaeocast takes up the topic of ichthyosaurs. Included is both a very interesting discussion between host Dave Marshall, and Dr. Ben Moon and Fiann Smithwick about these fascinating creatures, and a bit of behind-the-scenes recollection of the production of the recently released BBC documentary “Attenborough and the Sea Dragon”
On the day this article is published, it will be exactly one month until the day of the 2017 North American Solar Eclipse; an event that is expected to cause tens of millions of people to stop what they are doing and turn their eyes (properly protected, it is hoped) skyward to witness one of […]