!!!!ENDURANCE DISCOVERY ALERT!!!! Shackleton’s lost ship has been located - and the images are INCREDIBLE. Amazing achievement for
@Endurance_22
team
(Image courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
#Endurance22
The new dive to the
#Titanic
has revealed that the officers quarters are decaying fast - the captain’s bathtub has gone and parts of the deck are collapsing
Welcome to the black room in
#Pompeii
- it’s just been unearthed after being hidden for 2000 years - just one of the amazing new finds coming to light here. We’re live here this morning on
@BBCBreakfast
@BBCr4today
with
@GZuchtriegel
&
@pompei79
📷 Tony Jolliffe
A new view of the Titanic! New scans reveal the world's most famous wreck as never seen before. They show the wreck in its entirety - it's as if the water has been drained away… Check it out here
#Titanic
(Footage:
@AtlanticProds
/ Magellan)
Rebecca Morelle (
@BBCMorelle
) is the BBC's new Science Editor.
She’ll be based in Cardiff with the Climate and Science team. Rebecca will start her new role later this year.
Third ever time humans have made it to bottom of the Mariana Trench - and what do they see? Eerie landscape, amazing life... and a plastic bag! Our waste is finding its way into the planet’s most remote environments
@FiveDeeps
It’s condition is extraordinary - it looks like it has been frozen in time. You can see clear features - the wheel is almost pristine, bolts gleam from the wood and there’s even some discarded crockery on the deck
#Endurance22
@Endurance_22
The wreck was found just over 3,000m down in the Weddell Sea - just 7km from the coordinates recorded on the day the ship vanished beneath the ice more than 100 years ago
#Endurance22
(Images courtesy of Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and National Geographic)
NEW TITANIC SCANS... To give you an idea of the size of the scan we superimposed it into
@LondonStadium
where the 2012 Olympics was held. Use me in my orange jacket for scale!
#Titanic
Scientists think they’ve found the trigger of rare blood clots after the AstraZeneca vaccine - a protein in the blood is attracted to a key component of the vaccine starting a chain reaction - fascinating stuff from
@JamesTGallagher
Stunning images on the shortlist for
@RMGreenwich
Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
This one is of the northern lights above Iceland is by Carl Gallagher - do check out the others here:
If you’ve enjoyed the incredible discoveries that have recently been unearthed in
#Pompeii
do tune into this excellent new
@BBCTwo
series at 9pm - also on iplayer - it’s a fantastic three part doc capturing the amazing finds as they emerge by
@liontv
On Monday a rocket is set to begin its journey to space from
@SpaceCornwall
, sending satellites into orbit - the first time this has been done from British soil… but it’s just the start for the UK’s ambitions in space -
The Titanic was surveyed last summer - by deep sea mapping company Magellan Ltd and documentary makers
@AtlanticProds
Their 3D replica is built from 700,000 images…
#Titanic
I'm still thinking a lot about the
#Endurance
discovery this week - so if you are craving a bit more Endurance/Shackleton/shipwreck - here are a few things for you ... 🧵
Morning from
@goonhillyorg
- their dish is poised to pick up a signal from the Orion spacecraft once it’s on its way - we’ll be here as all the
#Artemis
drama unrolls
VOMIT COMET ALERT!!!
I joined joined the world's first para-astronaut - the amazing John McFall - on a parabolic flight. He's working on a groundbreaking study with
@esa
to see if a disabled astronaut can work and live in space
I’ve located a spot of shade in a beautifully decorated newly excavated room in Pompeii - looks like it could have been painted on the walls yesterday
#Pompeii
It's one of the pandemic's biggest puzzles - why some people with Covid have no symptoms and others get severely ill. This
@GenomiccStudy
study led by
@kennethbaillie
has found possible answers in our DNA
The bow - covered in stalactites of rust - is still instantly recognisable even 100 years after the Titanic sank. Check out that anchor and the details of the portholes…
#Titanic
The hope is that this could reveal more about what happened the night the ship was lost. Titanic expert Parks Stephenson says: “This model is one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story toward evidence-based research - and not speculation.”
#Titanic
Collossal fossil! Meet the sea monster that has emerged from Dorset’s Jurassic Coast - it’s a beaut!
Story by
@alisonfrancis
and
@BBCAmos
stills by Tony Jolliffe.
And watch more on
@BBCBreakfast
and throughout the day
I feel very privileged to be given this job - science is just the best beat (I’m definitely not biased...) and there are so many incredible stories to tell.
The search begins! The
@Endurance_22
expedition is about to set off to try and locate Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship. A lovely read here from
@BBCAmos
- and there’s more from me
@alisonfrancis
and
@DuncanCStone
on TV and radio throughout today
Some absolutely stunning images on NASA's live stream right now as
@NASA_Orion
is heading back home. Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean will happen in just over an hour.
#Artemis1
It's nearly primary mirror unfolding time for
#JWST
- which means some more 😬 for the team... While we wait here's a mini primer on why the mirror is so cool - and how it works - feat
@markmccaughrean
It’s nearly time to say goodbye & good riddance to 2020... but before you do pls take a moment to look back at the year in science - from the incredible work on coronavirus to climate change and space exploration
As another Moon mission is set to begin -
@AndySaunders_1
gives us a chance to look anew at Apollo. After scouring through Nasa's archives, he's digitally enhanced the original Apollo images and footage - and the results are stunning.