News

12 January 2022

Press, Research

Formation of the solar system's first small bodies in two separate rings

The formation of small solar system bodies, such as asteroids and planetesimals, remains a mystery. While there's general agreement that their formati...

06 January 2022

Press, Research

IPGP researchers search for nanoparticles on glaciers

In autumn 2021, two IPGP researchers will carry out a sampling mission on Alpine glaciers, with the aim of tracing the distribution and source of nano...

20 December 2021

Press, Research

The shape of rivers determined by the sediments they carry

In a study published in the journal PNAS, a team of geomorphologists from IPGP, CNRS, Université de Paris and Sorbonne University show that it is the ...

26 November 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

After 3 years on Mars, InSight has revealed the heart of the planet!

On November 26th, 2018, NASA's InSight mission landed on Mars. In the latest episode of the webseries "SEIS, a space adventure", scientists from the I...

26 November 2021

Press, Research

New magnetic image of a tectonically active planet

Using 70 years of data (airborne, satellite, field...), a French team (LMV, IPGP and LPG) has just published the most accurate global map to date of t...

10 November 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

A. Mangeney and K. Chanard honored by EGU

The EGU (European Geosciences Union) awards two IPGP researchers among its 50 international prize and medal winners for 2022! Anne Mangeney, professor...

08 November 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Stephan Borensztajn and Caroline Thaler Public prize in the CNRS "La preuve par l'image" photo competition

Stephan Borensztajn and Caroline Thaler win the People's Choice Award in the "La preuve par l'image" competition for their photo entitled Le cri.

05 November 2021

Press, Research

Landscape evolution over decades thanks to topographic reconstruction from archive images

A team from IPGP, Université de Paris and CNRS has developed a complete algorithm for using aerial archive images taken over the last century to track...

28 October 2021

Press, Research

Modelling the effect of variations in the Earth's orbit on climates and biomes during the major Eocene-Oligocene climate transition

By comparing the results of climate simulations from the Eocene and Oligocene eras, subjected to different configurations of the Earth's orbit, a stud...

22 October 2021

Press, Research

The mechanics of earthquakes studied using high-resolution satellite images

Using very high-resolution satellite images, taken before and after the ruptures of a sequence of earthquakes in the California desert, a study led by...

20 September 2021

Press, Research

The crustal origin of certain mantle heterogeneities finally demonstrated

The composition of the Earth's mantle is partly determined by chemical and isotopic analyses of lavas from different tectonic contexts. While basalts ...

15 September 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Jean-Paul Montagner receives the "Inge Lehmann Medal" from the AGU (American Geophysical Union)