How's your Spock salute?
Channel: OUresearch on YouTube
Date: 2014-10-01

Social media blogger, Christian Payne, aka @documentally, talks to three OU space scientists (Dr Carole Haswell, Prof. David Rothery and Prof. Ian Wright) about their research to mark World Space Week 2014 #WSW2014, ahead of their talks you can watch live on 7 October 2014 at 7pm BST

View the event (Is there life beyond Earth?) live on http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=2463&s=1
You can also watch interviews with the scientists on this OUresearch YouTube channel:
David Rothery, @daverothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, talks about the possibility of life on moons in the Solar System.
Ian Wright, @ipw2, Professor of Planetary Sciences, who led the OU's 20-year involvement in the Rosetta mission, considers the scientific potential of comets.
Dr Carole Haswell, @saltburnlass, Senior Lecturer in Astronomy, talks about exoplantes, potential habitable places in systems around other stars.

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Find out about our Moon and other moons: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/futurelearn/moons

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