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Manchester welcomed a very special visitor in May \u2013 Dr Jim Green, Chief Scientist at NASA.<\/p>\n

With very few students at the Faculty of Science and Engineering NOT owning a NASA hoodie, t-shirt or sticker, this was the scientific superstar equivalent of Beyonc\u00e9 popping into Christie’s Bistro for a cuppa.<\/p>\n

Dr Green was in Manchester to attend the European Lunar Symposium – hosted by the Isotope Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Group, which belongs to the\u00a0School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.<\/a> Dr Green kicked off the event with a presentation on the importance of the Earth\u2019s closest celestial neighbour. And a very good neighbour it is too \u2013 in fact, the Moon is a key factor in the cosmic dice roll that has allowed our planet and the life on it to flourish.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moon plays a very important role to sustain life here on Earth. From the very early days, the gravitational tug by the Moon has enabled our axis to remain at a steady place. This has moderated our climate \u2013 allowing life to evolve as it has,\u201d Dr Green explains. Basically, we owe the Moon a lot.<\/p>\n

\u2018They put a man on the Moon\u2019<\/h3>\n
\"Jim
Jim Green is the Chief Scientist at NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been nearly 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, but NASA are determined to return there. In fact, Dr Green reveals that it\u2019s the intention of the US space agency to send new astronauts back there by 2024 \u2013 including the first woman to land on the Moon.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re asking yourself whether we need to revisit a place that appears to be just a lump of rock, the reasons to go back are manifold. Not least, it could help pave the way to the first human space colony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Moon will tell us a lot about the origin and evolution of the Earth,\u201d Dr Green says. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to think we couldn\u2019t have a permanent place on the Moon, so where will we go? We\u2019re going to find out where the best places are and NASA\u2019s going to start that process, bringing in the international community. We\u2019re going to work together to tease out that location and build the structures we need to stay there permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n

And colonising the Moon is just the start \u2013 from here, Dr Green says NASA is confident that humans can move onwards to Mars as well. What he\u2019s saying is that within just a few generations, it will be less a case of the man in<\/em> the Moon, and more a case of men, women and children on<\/em> the Moon.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m being followed by a Moon shadow\u2019<\/h3>\n
\"Jim
Dr Green visited Manchester in May<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While NASA has its telescope firmly set on the Moon\u2019s future, it has also made breakthroughs about its past \u2013 and one that helps explain how both the Moon and the Earth in their current form came to be.<\/p>\n

In the early 2000s, work began modelling how the Moon was created using all the information scientists had available. This work helped to support the theory that the Moon was created as the result of a huge collision between early Earth and a visitor that got too close.<\/p>\n

Known as the Giant Impact Hypothesis, the premise goes that a planet named Theia, which was similar in size to Mars, wandered a little too close to Earth and became caught in its orbit, before crashing into it. The fallout resulted in the Earth we know today and the creation of the Moon.<\/p>\n

There are several pieces of evidence to support this theory. This includes the Moon\u2019s iron core being far smaller than average, suggesting that much of Theia\u2019s core was absorbed by the Earth. There\u2019s also the fact that the spin of the Earth and the Moon\u2019s orbit have similar orientations.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the fact that the oldest piece of Earth rock ever found was not actually discovered on Earth, but on the Moon. Our planet and the Moon are part of each other, in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fly me to the Moon and back\u2019<\/h3>\n

\"Moon\"<\/p>\n

Nearly half a century has passed since we last visited the Moon, but NASA is determined to return in order to conduct scientific research that could unlock the mystery of how the solar system was created and the timeline in which it occurred. And then there\u2019s the little matter of conducting the ultimate location recce \u2013 searching for a possible spot for humans to live.<\/p>\n

Dr Green asserts that a base like this will be just the start of humankind’s travels further into space. Known as Space Directive 1, NASA will lead this mission \u2013 but it\u2019s far from the ultra-competitive Space Race of the 20th Century. In fact, NASA will work with both international space agencies and commercial businesses to create a sustainable mission to the Moon \u2013 and further afield too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pretty exciting time to work at the internationally renowned space agency \u2013 and students at the Faculty of Science and Engineering have a chance to be a part of it. From engineers to earth scientists to chemists and chemical engineers, bright minds will find a welcoming home at NASA.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a diverse range of STEM disciplines that will put humans back on the Moon \u2013 and keep them there. Over the next week, we\u2019ll be sharing a series of films in which Dr Green shares his passion for science and opens up about how he rose through the ranks to become NASA\u2019s Chief Scientist. He also talks about the type of minds that NASA wants working for them – could you be one of them?<\/p>\n

Follow our Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> to watch the films as they\u2019re released.<\/p>\n

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Words \u2013 Hayley Cox<\/em><\/p>\n

Images \u2013 The University of Manchester, <\/em>James Dowse<\/a>, Pavel Kazachkov<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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