Dr Chris Arridge is a physicist studying the giant planets of our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) and how they interact with the Sun and the rest of the Solar System. He was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge (at Darwin College), and Imperial College London. He studied some of the first data to be returned from the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. Since October 2014 he has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow and lecturer in the Department of Physics at Lancaster University.
Chris lives in Lancaster and enjoys dancing and teaching Rockabilly Jive, Lindy Hop and Balboa, reading, running, computer games, and cooking and eating very spicy food.
One of the most profound and exciting breakthroughs in planetary science in the last two decades has been the discovery of liquid methane lakes on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon Tit...
From astronauts breaking records for the longest amount of time spent in space to experiments growing food and keeping bacteria in orbit, the past decade of human spaceflight has been fas...
