Pop-up exhibition in the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Rock Room
21 February 2013
The Rock Room, which displays ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº's Geology Collection, will be hosting a special one-off pop-up exhibition between 12.
Impact! will feature NASA images of the Moon and Mars taken from the Regional Planetary Image Facility at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº, one of only seven centres outside the USA (and the only in the UK) to house the archive of NASA planetary images from the 1960s until the present day.
Visitors will be able to view photos of the Moon from Lunar Orbiter (1966-67) and Apollo missions (1963-72) and compare them to images of Mars taken by the Viking 1 and 2 Missions (1976-1980). The exhibition will also feature meteorites from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº and Birkbeck Collections.
The exhibition curators will be on hand to discuss their research and answer any questions on the photos and objects on display.
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