On November 26, 2018, after a 485 million kilometre journey, the InSight landed on Martian soil for a two-year mission, with the French SEIS seismometer on board. The 12th mission of NASA’s Discovery Program, an international collaboration, InSight aims to study the internal structure of Mars and understand the formation and evolution of the rocky planets of the Solar […]
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Mélanie Thiriet collaborates with the UnivEarthS team I6: From dust to planets where she completed her doctorate. UnivEarthS is pleased to inform you of the defense of its thesis entitled : “Effect of the north/south dichotomy on the thermal structure and evolution of Mars”. The defense will take place on Monday, November 22, at 10 am at the IPGP Amphitheater. […]
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The Insight mission took off on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg mud in California, and is now on a long 6-month journey to Mars, where it will land on November 26, 2018. Its scientific objective is to understand how Mars was formed and how it evolved into today’s frozen desert. Among all the people who worked on this mission, we […]
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On 25 September, a conference “Dynamics of planetary, satellite and galactic systems” is held at the Academy of Sciences. Sébastien Charnoz participates by presenting at 15:40 “The origin and evolution of satellite systems”; UnivEarthS supported its work through Group I6: From dust to planets. This conference-debate of the Academy of Sciences will be broadcast live from 14:30 to 16:45 from […]
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Data from the international Cassini spacecraft that explored Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017 has revealed what appear to be giant dust storms in equatorial regions of Titan. The discovery, described in a paper published in Nature Geoscience today, makes Titan the third body in the Solar System where dust storms have been observed – the other two […]
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