Asteroids were created when our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago Today there are around 800,000 orbiting the Sun, and a few are potentially hazardous to Earth Just how difficult is it to predict their movements? Just like the Earth, asteroids rotate as they orbit the Sun. When one side is facing the Sun,…Continue reading Will an asteroid hit Earth? | Natural History Museum
Tag: Mineralogy
The search for life on Mars | Natural History Museum
Is there life on Mars? Has there ever been? These questions have inspired science and science fiction alike. But a mission, led by the European and Russian Space Agencies, might finally reveal what really lies beneath the surface of the Red Planet. We’ve been sending missions to Mars since the 1960s to find out what,…Continue reading The search for life on Mars | Natural History Museum
Life in the Dark – behind the scenes | Natural History Museum
At the Natural History Museum in London, the finishing touches are being made to an exhibition which explores life that exists in near-total darkness. The Museum is working with a specialist design studio to use video gaming technology to bring visitors closer to some of the most inaccessible environments on the planet. Life in the…Continue reading Life in the Dark – behind the scenes | Natural History Museum
The fish that’s also a pearl | Natural History Museum
We have millions of bivalve mollusc specimens in our collection. In some of them we can see the pearls being formed inside the shell. Perhaps the most interesting and precious to us is this one, donated to the Museum in 1886. What we have here is an oyster shell with a pearlfish trapped inside. Pearlfish…Continue reading The fish that’s also a pearl | Natural History Museum
How to go rockpooling | Natural History Museum
What you need ID guide, bucket, clear jar Step 1. Prepare Check the tide times and weather for your beach location Step 2. Scout Wait until low tide and find an area with accessible rock pools Be careful when walking as the rocks can be slippery Approach a pool slowly and quietly Keep your shadow…Continue reading How to go rockpooling | Natural History Museum
The blue whale: a three-year labour of love | Natural History Museum
It’s strange coming here today and seeing this. I think when we started you don’t ever think so much about the finished product, you just kind of take one step at a time. I’ve never worked on anything like this, what am I thinking? I’ve never worked on anything as big and as significant as…Continue reading The blue whale: a three-year labour of love | Natural History Museum
The art of preserving a blue marlin | Natural History Museum
So here we are in Hintze Hall, our newly renovated space. On this ground floor we have ten Wonder Bays, which show the sorts of collections that we’ve got. So on the east side we have we have extinct specimens, and on the west side we have extant specimens that are still in the world…Continue reading The art of preserving a blue marlin | Natural History Museum