Scientists have traced Earth’s path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust
“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do.
I'm an astrophysicist based at the University of Lincoln, in the United Kingdom.
I've always been particularly interested in space but have a particular passion for the smaller objects like planets, moons, asteroids and planetary rings both inside our Solar system and around distant stars.