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Mercury Poisoning from Museum Samples
... museum samples could be harbouring volatile compounds of mercury. But no need to fear, as it is only the people ... Herbarium to stop these vapours in their tracks. John – Mercury salts were widely used to preserve museum specimens ... you can tell by the state of the preservation that these mercury salts have worked, but over time, and what’s been ...
Messenger probe crash-lands on Mercury
... probe's mission to the Solar system's innermost planet, Mercury, has now ended. At the end of April, the spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mercury for over 4 years, slammed into the surface at a speed ... scientists are now preparing to launch a new probe to Mercury in its wake. One of the researchers on this project ...
Probing the Formation of Mercury
... days of the MESSENGER probe's observations of the planet Mercury. The densest planet in the Solar System, Mercury is the only terrestial planet other than the Earth to ... of data from MESSENGER, which only arrived in orbit around Mercury in March, and so what we're seeing at the moment are ...
Mercury found in glaciers
... minerals and metals in the process, including toxic mercury. This flows in the meltwater into the sea. And if the glaciers speed up their retreat, the delivery of that mercury into the food chain accelerates too, as Charlotte ... Jon - There's certainly very high concentrations of mercury as well, which is concerning. Something doesn't ...
BepiColombo blasts off to Mercury
... have ever tried to explore the planet closest to our sun - Mercury. First in 1973 with the Mariner 10 mission, then ... Exploration Agency have launched a new spacecraft to Mercury. But why go back, and what does this new mission hope ... Johannes Benkhof from the European Space Agency. David - Mercury is three times closer to the Sun than the Earth, and ...
Want to see Mercury in 2016?
On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the ... - Why is that exciting? David - Well, particularly for Mercury, I'm working on a space mission to Mercury - it's my planet! And it's very hard to see in the ...
Messages from Mercury
... MESSENGER spacecraft completed one Earth year of orbiting Mercury this month, and two papers published in the journal ... and after a few successful flybys went into orbit around Mercury in March 2011. As well as taking images, it has ... altimetry to measure topography, it becomes obvious that Mercury's northern hemisphere has a lower dynamic range of ...
BepiColombo: The mission to Mercury
... Space Agency/Japanese Space Agency mission to the planet Mercury. It’s been in the planning for a couple of decades ... on the 20th October from French Guiana. The cruise to Mercury is complicated. It’ll take about seven years to ... a lot to learn. Chris - How far away is it from here to Mercury, and how’s it going to get there? David - Mercury ...
MESSENGER Orbits Mercury
... space probe ever to be placed into orbit around the planet Mercury has been widely reported. This marks a historic ... understanding of the other planets has steadily increased, Mercury has always remained an elusive planet. The problem is ... it's very difficult to put a spacecraft into orbit about Mercury, because it's so close to the Sun. Any probe sent ...
David Rothery: exploring Mercury
... some interesting insights into the BepiColombo mission and Mercury at the beginning. So chance now to dwell it more on ... to go to Paris to make the geological case for going to Mercury in 1997, because the guy who was meant to go, ... couldn't make it, and I got roped in. And I was thinking, Mercury's a boring place, but hey, we've only had one ...
Forensic archaeology
... away by ground water, but some of them, in particular, Mercury which is what they're looking at, stick around. If ... that's definitely come from the decomposed body. Now, what Mercury used to be used for in the middle ages is a medicine. ... to test people's bones to see whether they've been given Mercury. But it only tells us whether they've been given ...
Mercury's May Transit: Why do we care?
On Monday, Mercury passed between us and the Sun, blocking out some of ... of the solar system. The first transit observed was one of Mercury, in fact, early in the 17th century. Haley was the ... to work out the relative difference between the earth to mercury and, therefore, from mercury to the sun and, ...
Toxic mercury discharged from melting glacier
... off the Greenland Ice Sheet is releasing high levels of mercury, new research reveals. According to a recent report, the concentrations of dissolved mercury detected in water melting from the glacier are among ... Ice Sheet, and two fjords the meltwaters flow into. “The mercury concentration on the surface of the ice where a lot ...
How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?
... what I should call this walk. Matt - We're approaching Mercury now. Do you want to describe what you're seeing? Julia - It's a nice big purple sculpture with "Mercury" on the top. And it's pointing down to what looks ... thing that could fit on your fingertip. This is how big Mercury actually is. Julia - It's an actual chickpea. Matt - ...
Quiz: Who's faster: Usain Bolt or an African elephant?
... - which goes by more quickly: a day on Venus, or a year on Mercury? What do you think? Philipe - You’re the physicist, ... Jess - You can take it. Okay, let’s go with a year on Mercury. Chris - You’re going with a year on Mercury. A: A Year on Mercury A day on Venus is roughly 116 ...
Snails, planets and chocolate!
... favourite planet? Is it Uranus? David - No, it's not. It's Mercury because we have our own spacecraft on its way to Mercury as we speak. And you've helped pay for it, so thank ... - And what's it going to do? David - It's going to go to Mercury, split into two spacecraft - the European one and the ...
Can you get mercury poisoning from too much sushi?
... this to Karen Kidd from the University of New Brunswick: Mercury has been very well studied and we know a lot about ... eat. For example, we know that fresh tuna has a lot more mercury in it than canned tuna, swordfish is another one that's high in mercury. We know that bigger, older fish are higher in ...
Winks, Wobbles and Blips - Finding Exoplanets
... We see this phenomenon in our own solar system. If Mercury passes between us and the sun we observe a transit. There was a transit of Mercury recently: just a few years ago. Exo-planets too can ...
Science Update - Mercury Pollution and Public Transport
... about how climate change may be leading to an influx of mercury in the environment. But first, some good news. We all ... in the north may be unleashing massive amounts of mercury into the environment. The mercury has accumulated harmlessly over thousands of years in ...
Bed sheets make a fluorescent light bulb glow?
... is basically a hollow tube with some very low pressure mercury gas in it - some of that mercury gas will be ionised: it would've lost electron. If ... thing, meaning they will accelerate along and hit other mercury atoms and knock electrons off those too. Then you'll ...
Planet Earth Online - Water Repelling Soils
... up. Richard - That's really weird. It's almost like mercury. As if you poured mercury on the surface, not that you're allowed to do that anymore. As if you poured mercury on the sort of the beads of water - on a soaking wet ...
Why do low energy lightbulbs take so long to reach full brightness?
... create light in a very different way. You give energy to a mercury gas, by passing a spark through it. That then gives ... glow if you go into a nightclub. The problem is that mercury is normally a liquid at room temperature, so if it is cold, the mercury isn't much of a gas. So the light has got to warm up ...
Wally Funk Heads for Space
... Science and Space Correspondent Jonathan Amos to celebrate Mercury 13 legend Wally Funk as she prepares to launch to ... Sue shares a new conversation with Wally testing out a Mercury capsule. We also catch up on ten years of space ... Worden. Here’s to the next ten years! We celebrate the Mercury 13 mission and Wally Funk's return to the void... ...
Magnificent Mercury: BepiColombo
Magnificent Mercury is in full focus. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and ... thermal spacecraft model for Europe’s first mission to Mercury in October. Expect to hear from ESA’s chief ... Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Suzie Imber. Magnificent Mercury: BepiColombo ...
Autumn quiz: a time for change
... will melt in your hand? A) gallium B) bromine or C) mercury? Matt - I think bromine is a gas at room ... going to be that. Ella - I wouldn't fancy handling any mercury. Matt - Dredging this up from the depths of my ... temperature is capable of melting gallium. Bromine and mercury are already liquids at room temperature, so if you ...