Space Zone Report – March 2020

Read the report: Space Zone Report – March 2020 [PDF]

The Space Zone was a themed zone funded by STFC. It featured six scientists:

  • Samantha Faircloth is a PhD student studying elements from moon rocks, funded by STFC.
  • Sam Frampton is an STFC funded PhD student designing new, smaller satellites to visit and study other planets in our solar system.
  • Nicol Caplin is a Science Coordinator at ESA helping to plan experiments ready to go to space on the International Space Station.
  • Lori-Ann Foley is a PhD student looking at how climate change affects Mars, using data from RAL Space instruments.
  • Liam Perera is an STFC funded PhD student looking at how life may survive on Saturn’s icy moon- Enceladus.
  • David Sobral, winner of the Space Zone, uses microscopes to research how galaxies formed and evolved from the primitive universe, funded by STFC.
Posted on April 16, 2020 by modem in 2020, STFC, Zone Reports. Comments Off on Space Zone Report – March 2020

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