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Celestial Dates 2019

With everything from eclipses to rare sighting of Mercury, 2019 is a great year for casting your eyes upwards and into the night sky!

It’s a super blue blood moon!

For the first time since 1866, on January 31st 2018 there is a pretty special lunar treat in store for us – a super blue blood moon! Let’s find out what that is.

Mars’s thin atmosphere

Mars’s atmosphere is about 100 times thinner than our home planet’s. Find out one theory about why it’s so thin.

Celestial dates for 2018

Ready for some sky-gazing? With eclipses and meteor showers to spare, it’s going to be an exciting year!

Mars’s missing oceans

Why did Mars change from blue to red? This video by a National Geographic explorer explains what happened.

Is Mars’s soil really red?

For World Soil Day we wanted to find out if the soil on Mars was really red and what makes it look that way.

Exploring our solar system

This month, our Principia Mission Space Diary investigates some of the things astronaut Tim Peake might see in space, like the planets in our solar system.