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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Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy

    Galaxy was expected to contain 400 times more dark matter than observations show. Grand, majestic spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are hard to miss. Astronomers can spot these vast complexes because of their large, glowing centers and their signature winding arms of gas and dust, where thousands of glowing stars reside. But some galaxies aren’t so distinctive. […]

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ERC Advanced Grant 2017 for the “SEISMAZE” Project by Nikolai Shapiro

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the names of the 269 successful winners, including 34 French, for funding under the Advanced Grant Call 2017. A call to support experienced researchers recognized in their domain, up to 2.5 million euros over 5 years. Among them is Nikolai Shapiro, Seismologist at the IPGP, CNRS research director, and work package leader of […]

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Workshop “Rencontres de physique de l’infiniment grand à l’infiniment petit” (French)

The 8th edition of “Physics Meetings, from the Infinitely Large to the Very Small” – Chien-Shiung Wu Promotion – will take place from July 16 to 27, with a day at the APC on Thursday, July 26th. http://indico.in2p3.fr//event/rencontres-physique-infinis Its objective is to transmit to students of physics at level L3 or equivalent, our knowledge and our experience around research topics […]

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Summer school/workshop “Microsatellites in planetary and atmospheric research”

Tartu, Estonia, 6 – 11 August 2018   The use of micro- and nanosatellites in space missions have been one of the hot topics in space research and space technology during the last years. As opposed to traditional spacecraft missions which can take decades to prepare and may cost up to billions of Euros, microsatellites (<100 kg) and nanosatellites (<10 […]

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