Author Archives: Chris Rowan

LCROSS: the aftermath

At least one camera was looking at the impact site in the right wavelength…
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Categories: geology, planets

LCROSS impacts today!

Scientists get to play interplanetary bumper cars to search for lunar water.
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Categories: geology, planets

Stuff I linked to on Twitter this week

Another set of interesting links for you.
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Categories: links

Two large earthquakes, two unusual focal mechanisms

A quick look at the causes of this weeks’ big earthquakes in Samoa and Indonesia
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Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, geology

Chris on the radio

Completely out of the blue, I’ve asked to participate in a discussion on natural disasters on the BBC World Service. The topic is presumably prompted by the two recent large earthquakes near Samoa and Indonesia, and it seems they want … Continue reading

Categories: bloggery, public science