Category: News

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

I6: From dust to planets, Interface Project, News, Outreach, UnivEarthS Activities

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

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

Education Project, For students, News, Non classé, UnivEarthS Activities

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”

Education Project, K2 Igosat, News

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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25 days before the launching of Insight mission

For students, I3 : Fundamental physics and Geophysics in space, Interface Project, News, Outreach, Spotlight!, UnivEarthS Activities

  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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