Planetary sciences

Publication : Time evolution of snow regions and planet traps in an evolving protoplanetary disk

06/05/2015

K. Baillié, S. Charnoz, and E. Pantin, members of Interface Project "From dust to stars", publish their results in the newspaper Astronomy & Astrophysics. Their article is entitled Time evolution of snow regions and planet traps in an evolving  protoplanetary disk.

Project I6 results and experiments

08/10/2014

Detailed description of the different research themes

From dust to planet embryos

Doctoral position: Dune morphogenesis in landscape-scale experiments and link with planetary climate

Location:

Équipe Dynamique des fluides géologiques, Institut Physique du Globe de Paris, 1 rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris.

Subject Title:

Dune morphogenesis in landscape-scale experiments and link with planetary climate

Supervisors:   

   Clément Narteau (IPGP – [email protected])

NASA's GRAIL Mission Puts a New Face on the Moon

09/11/2013

Nov. 7, 2013. Scientists using data from the lunar-orbiting twins of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are gaining new insight into how the face of the moon received its rugged good looks. A report on the asymmetric distribution of lunar impact basins is published in this week's edition of the journal Science.

INSIGHT mission selected by NASA

14/12/2012

 

NASA select INSIGHT with the first génération of planetary seismometer SEIS

To know more on the SEISmometer : http://seis.ipgp.fr/

 

Planetary rings are at the origin of Solar System satellites

12/12/2012

Two French researchers published the first model that is cabable of explaining the origin of the vast majority of regular planetary satellites [1] in our Solar System from planetary disks. First tested in 2010 with the moons of Saturn, this model can explain the distribution of the numerous satellites surroundng the so-called "giant" planets, and can also explain the presence of satellites surrounding the so-called "terrestrial" planets, such as those around the Earth and Pluto [2]. These results are decisive for understanding and explaining in a universal manner the formation of planetary systems.

NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map

12/12/2012

PASADENA, Calif. -- Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body.

The new map, created by the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, is allowing scientists to learn about the moon's internal structure and composition in unprecedented detail. Data from the two washing machine-sized spacecraft also will provide a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system formed and evolved.

News on dunes !

07/12/2012
  • 1st January 2013 : Antoine Lucas joins our team on a CNES postdoctoral fellowship. Project: "Dynamics and morphometry of dunes on Titan, a new proxy for the study of surface/atmosphere interaction. "

 

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