France’s SEIS seismometer on InSight mission set to listen to the beating heart of Mars

Thursday 19 April 2018, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, presented the InSight mission (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), the 12th mission of NASA’s Discovery Program. CNES and DLR, the German space agency, are both contributing to the mission. Philippe Lognonné, Principal Investigator […]

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25 days before the launching of Insight mission

  A lot of news around the spaceship Insight, whose launch is scheduled for May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg in California. Twenty-five days from the planned launch date, the French IPGP team that produced the SEIS instrument has opened its twitter account to provide the public live news about this event: https://twitter.com/InSight_IPGP UnivEarthS supported the IPGP teams that worked on […]

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PhD defense of Lucile Fayon: “Seismologic space instrumentation: transfer function of the 6 axes InSight seismometer and development of a picometric interferometric displacement sensor “

Lucile Fayon is pleased to invite you to her PhD defense which will take place the 17th of April 2018 at 2:00 pm in the amphitheatre P.G. de Gennes in the Condorcet building of Paris Diderot University. She will present  the work she has done for the last 3,5 years in IPGP and APC, under the supervisions of Philippe Lognonné […]

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Advanced Virgo + Day on May 31, 2018

A French Advanced Virgo + day is organized on May 31 in Paris (ENS, 24 rue Lhomond). It will be an opportunity to present the instrumental evolutions envisaged for Advanced Virgo, as well as the science that will then be accessible and the evolution of the data analysis that will be necessary. This day is open to all those who […]

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ARIEL selected as ESA’s next medium-class science mission

  ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Exoplanet Large-survey) is one of the three candidate missions selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its next medium-class science mission due for launch in 2028. The goal of the ARIEL mission is to investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds planets orbiting distant stars in order to address the fundamental questions on how planetary systems […]

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