The first day turned out to be unusually easy; just one interview, with the project manager for the Phoenix mission. Phoenix is due for launch next year, and is designed to land further north than any successful mission to Mars has managed. The incentive is to dig down below the surface to reach the ice [...]
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The Sunday Times had an interesting and extremely thoughtful article about the difference between the current wave of science books and the past. I don’t agree with all of it; I think to lump Dawkins, Hawking and Steve Jones together is, to say the lease, a little over simplistic, but I do think they captured [...]
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We arrived in California yesterday evening following an extremely long and uneventuful flight. We even managed to rescue all of our luggage – eventually – which is always reassuring. We’re here to film a series of interviews, mainly for our Mars special which goes out early next year, and first up is a trip to [...]
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Lots of posts coming up – I promise.
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However, with Bang! now back in stock at Amazon we’ve had to reprint to keep up with demand. Sadly, there wasn’t time to print as many of the ‘flashy’ covers as we need before Christmas, so if you really want one of these, wait (or buy in [...] -
We’ve been taken aback by the success of Bang!. However, the first reprint has now arrived and the book is back in stock at Amazon and hopefully in your nearby bookshop.
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Apologies for the lack of posts recently – I’ve been dashing around before going off to a conference next week. The highlight of the week was interviewing Steve Squyers, the principle investigator on Spirit and Opportunity. We last talked just over a year ago, and it’s incredible to think that the rovers are still happily [...]
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