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Things have quietened enough that I'm going to share my thoughts about the detection of #phosphine on #Venus announced yesterday.In short: this is a BIG fucking deal. And here's why:(a

Let me tell you a little bit about mantle xenoliths*, because they're very cool and pretty.*pronounced "zeeno-lith"A wee thread: In that photo, the green stuff is peridotite—a crystalline rock that's

Yesterday I came across this image, taken from the @Space_Station—of Kerguelen, an island in the south Indian Ocean that's the topmost part of a *huge* igneous province, the Kerguelen Plateau.It's

If you could end the pandemic by destroying one of the planets which one would you choose and why would it be Mars I mean, Star Trek: Picard had the

The Council of Elrond would probably have been worse over Zoom, tbh @LeVostreGC

As people are tucking into Easter eggs today, here's a list of some of the *absolute worst* substitutes for chocolate eggs that #geology can offer you. Consider yourself warned.A THREAD(1/n)

I sometimes forget that we have a huge telescope in orbit of #Mars, returning some *amazing* high-res images of the Red Planet.This is an enhanced-colour view from @HiRISE of sand