Aberystwyth University celebrates World Space Week 2015
Aberystwyth University’s Department of Physics are inviting members of the local community including students and staff, to discover more about exciting developments in space research taking place on their doorstep, as part of World Space Week (from now until 10th October 2015). Declared by the United National General Assembly in 1999, World Space Week is the largest annual space event with activities held across the world to celebrate, educate and inspire the general public and children about space. In keeping with this year’s theme of ‘Discovery’, Aberystwyth University will be taking part in the global celebration with a scale model of the terrain of Mars on public display in the Quad of the Old College between Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th October (09.00 – 18.00). This scale version of the entire surface of Mars also features a larger scale version of the Gale crater, the area currently being studied by NASA’s Mars Science Lab rover ‘Curiosity’. Built by physicists at the Department...