INSIGHT mission selected by NASA
NASA select INSIGHT with the first génération of planetary seismometer SEIS To know more on the SEISmometer : http://seis.ipgp.fr/
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Workshop Early Earth
One day meeting has been organized December 19, 2012. 18 persons will participate to the meeting among which 5 PhD students and two postdocs. The idea of this “in house” and informal meeting is to address a large range of topics spanning global geodynamics, origin of subduction processes, composition and evolution of the Archean atmosphere and shallow oceans to the […]
» Read morePlanetary rings are at the origin of Solar System satellites
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 […]
» Read moreNASA’s GRAIL Mission Puts a New Face on the Moon
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. “Since time immemorial, humanity has […]
» Read moreNews on dunes !
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. “ October 2012 : Beginning of the thesis of Amandine Garcia on the topic “Observation and modeling of dunes on Titan. Link to Climate”. Co-direction between S. Rodriguez […]
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