Some more media coverage of our recent discovery of a new >20 km diameter meteorite impact crater - Uhackatik - in #Quebec @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuearth.bsky.social #ImpactEarth eu.usatoday.com/story/news/w...

A Google Maps search may have uncovered an ancient meteorite crater

An amateur astronomer from Quebec spotted an unusual circular depression while planning a camping and road trip through the Côte-Nord region.

eu.usatoday.com

A nice article about how an amateur astronomer, Joël Lapointe, led to the discovery of a new meteorite impact crater in Quebec 🇨🇦 and how on our recent expedition we were able to confirm it #impactearth @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuearth.bsky.social ca.news.yahoo.com/pit-found-qu...

Pit found by Quebecer confirmed to be a 390-million-years-old meteorite impact crater

MONTREAL — In late 2023, amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a summer road trip when he stumbled upon a strange looking pit.

ca.news.yahoo.com

I’m happy to announce Canada has a newly confirmed meteorite impact crater! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ImpactEarth @westernu.ca @westernuspace.bsky.social @westernuearth.bsky.social

He saw a pit on Google Maps. It turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater | CBC News

Joël Lapointe, stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024. But it turned out to be a 390-million...

cbc.ca

My latest article for @ca.theconversation.com - Jeremy Hansen is leaving the Canadian Space Agency, but Canada will still support NASA’s return to the Moon theconversation.com/jeremy-hanse... @westernu.ca @westernuearth.bsky.social @westernuspace.bsky.social

Jeremy Hansen is leaving the Canadian Space Agency, but Canada will still support NASA’s return to the moon

Jenni Gibbons will be lead capsule communicator for NASA’s Artemis III mission, Gordon Osinski is on the science team and Canada also contributes a robotic Lunar Utility Vehicle.

theconversation.com

Very sad to hear of the passing of Lyle Whyte. We met the first year of my PhD. He was so kind and supportive and this continued throughout my academic career. Lyle was a champion of astrobiology in Canada and we shared a passion for Arctic fieldwork. montrealgazette.remembering.ca/obituary/lyl...

Dr. Lyle G. Whyte Obituary | 1960 - 2026 | Montreal Gazette Remembering

View Dr. Lyle G. Whyte's complete obituary, share memories, and explore 4 tribute posts from the community.

montrealgazette.remembering.ca

Happy #CanadaDay 😊

Huge congratulations to Dr. Axel Noblet on the successful defence of his PhD thesis on the origin and evolution of gullies on Mars! @westernuearth.bsky.social @westernuspace.bsky.social

On this eve of National Indigenous Peoples Day, I am shocked and saddened that the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador would do such a thing and seek to discount 1000's of years of history. I stand in solidarity with the Innu Nation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Innu Nation accuses N.L. government of capping group's history at 300 years — an 'erasure,' say Innu leaders | CBC News

Innu Cultural Guardian Jodie Ashini says she thought National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, would be the perfect day to open the Innu Pakassiun exhibit at the Labrador Interpretation Centre in Nort...

cbc.ca

It was great to be back in the Science Evaluation Room (SER) this morning. This is where a lot of our training occurs, where we will support #ArtemisIV and V, and of course where the science team supported the #ArtemisII mission!

Part of preparing our #Artemis science team for surface operations is learning about how astronauts are trained. Great to visit the Neutral Buoyancy Lab this morning!

Happy to see this new paper published - a unique example of a central peak formed partly in anorthosite: Geology of the central uplift of the Kamestastin Lake impact structure, Labrador, Canada #ImpactEarth onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @westernuearth.bsky.social @westernuspace.bsky.social

It’s great to be back at the NASA Johnson Space Center for our first #Artemis meeting since becoming the first Artemis lunar surface science team. Excited and honoured to be part of humanity’s return #ToTheMoon

Stay strong Ukraine #SlavaUkraïni

With our vast experience and technical knowledge in prospecting and mineral exploration in 🇨🇦 it's great to see CSA support this off planet. I'm excited to be supporting Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation on this contract! @westernu.ca

SpaceQ@spaceqmedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Canadian Space Agency awards $2 million for lunar in-situ resource utilization studies he Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded $2 million across four new contracts to map out how humans will survive on the Moon. Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation, SpaceDIRT, and Volta Space…

Excited to see this paper published: rdcu.be/fnljA - we have evidence for a long-lived ~8 million year impact-generated hydrothermal system at the Chicxulub impact structure! #ImpactEarth @westernuearth.bsky.social @westernuspace.bsky.social

A long-lived impact-generated hydrothermal system at the Chicxulub impact structure

Communications Earth & Environment - Radioisotopic age constraints and numerical simulations on the duration of hydrothermal activity associated with the Chicxulub impact structure indicate the...

rdcu.be

It was great to host Henrik Drake & his PhD student Jorinel Domingos from Linnaeus U. to sample drill cores in the Impact Earth collection as part of our ongoing collaboration to investigate the role of meteorite impacts in the origin & evolution of life @westernu.ca

Check out our new paper on "Static Geotechnical Characterization of Lunar Soil Simulants" www.mdpi.com/3920132 #mdpiaerospace @westernu.ca

NASA reveals first plans for a Moon base. As for Canada, maybe I was a bit blunt, but “So we really have to get our act together in Canada to make sure that we can keep up with NASA." www.cbc.ca/news/science...

NASA reveals first plans for a moon base | CBC News

NASA has provided the first look at its plans for its moon base, which include several robotic missions to the surface of the moon as early as this year.

cbc.ca

So you think you've found an impact crater?! Check out this new paper on the impact‐diagnostic criteria you can use to confirm such an origin - a product of the Meteoritical Society Impact Cratering Committee onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Impact‐diagnostic criteria for use in confirming a meteorite impact origin of terrestrial geological structures: Recommendations by the Impact Cratering Committee of the Meteoritical Society

The framework of the Impact Cratering Committee (ICC) of the Meteoritical Society was approved in 2020, with the first committee members appointed in 2023. The ICC has a mandate to (1) approve, maint...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Snuck in a quick early morning run before heading to the airport. That’s a wrap on the 2026 edition of #ps9605 #fieldschool #westernu

For our final afternoon and night of #ps9605 #fieldschool we’re in the stunning landscape of Snow Canyon State Park. A fantastic way to end the learning experience #geology #planetaryscience

One of the comments I frequently get from students on #fieldschool is “wow, we’re eating so well” - we certainly do! And the kitchen views are amazing 😊 #ps9605 #camping #westernu

Over the past 10 days we’ve seen lots of sandstones with giant “cross beds” - evidence of ancient sand dunes. At Coral Pink Sand Dunes we explored the process in action! #fieldschool #geology #ps9605

Just some photos of some beautiful pyroclastic volcanic rocks! #fieldschool #geology #volcanoes #ps9605

And we finished the day exploring the Marysvale Volcanic Province - one of the largest volcanic provinces in the western USA, active from 32 to 22 million years ago #ps9605 #fieldschool #geology #planetaryscience

We started the day looking at a carbon dioxide cold spring and then onto exhumed paleo channels (= the channels now high standing) #fieldschool #geology #westernu #outdoors #ps9605

After a morning off in Moab (showers, laundry, beds = luxury) we’re on the road again. Laccoliths, rock glaciers, canyons - insanely different #geology in the space of an hour’s drive #ps9605 #fieldschool #planetaryscience

A late post today as it was a long one: an always epic 19 km hike into the centre of the deeply eroded Upheaval Dome impact structure, made more so by the 34oC temps! #ps9605 #fieldschool #geology #planetaryscience

We’ve made it to Canyonlands National Park! Time to explore another process that can form canyons: groundwater sapping (+a little bit of overland flow in the rare rains) #fieldschool #westernu #outdoors #ps9605 #canyonlands

What is #camplife like on my planetary surface processes #fieldschool? I’d say pretty great indeed! #ps9605 #camping #outdoors