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14 February 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Martian seismology begins to reveal the planet's structure

In a series of 6 articles published this Monday February 24 in Nature Geoscience and Nature Communication, the scientific team behind NASA's InSight m...

07 February 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Characterization of site conditions for the RAP-RESIF network in the French West Indies

From March 9, teams from OVSG-IPGP and OVSM-IPGP will be taking part in a geophysical campaign to characterize the sites of seismic stations in the RA...

27 January 2020

Press, Research

Imaging volcanic disturbances associated with major earthquakes

IPGP researchers and their colleagues have sought to better understand how the 2011 Tohoku megathrust in Japan disrupted volcanic regions, by tracking...

15 January 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Optical fiber available to researchers to better understand Mayotte earthquakes

Orange and the members of the FLY-LION3 (Lower Indian Ocean Network) consortium - Société Réunionnaise du Radiotéléphone and Comores Câbles - announce...

19 December 2019

Observatories, Press, Research

Monitoring deformation in Mayotte using satellite radar interferometry

Since May 2018, the island of Mayotte has been experiencing a seismo-volcanic crisis on an unprecedented scale. Numerous earthquakes are being felt by...

12 December 2019

Press, Research

Meteorites reveal the early history of the Solar System

Over the past few months, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris, CNRS and Muséum National d'Histo...

02 December 2019

Press, Research

Xenon trapped in rock provides insight into the evolution of life

Researchers at CRPG (CNRS/ Université de Lorraine) and IPGP have carried out a study highlighting intense outgassing around 2.5 billion years ago, whi...

12 November 2019

Press, Research

The first solar system solids created in less than a week

A team of researchers from the Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques (CRPG/CNRS/Université de Lorraine), the Institut de minéralogie, d...

09 October 2019

Press, Research

Towards a better understanding of mega-earthquake triggering mechanisms

In a recently published study, IPGP researchers and their colleague show that fluid pressure variations in subduction zones control, over the long ter...

04 October 2019

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

InSight picks up strange sounds on Mars

Put your ear to the ground on Mars and you'll be rewarded with a veritable symphony. Sure, you'll need superhuman hearing, but NASA's InSight lander i...

04 October 2019

Press, Research

Not so young, Saturn's rings

Did Saturn's rings only appear during the age of the dinosaurs? The announcement came as a (media) bombshell at the end of the Cassini mission, which ...

01 October 2019

Press, Research

Plate tectonics, a very old story

Researchers at IPGP have demonstrated for the first time that plate tectonics were already active on Earth 4 billion years ago. Their study shows that...

02 August 2019

Observatories, Press, Research

Earthquakes and volcanoes in Mayotte: conclusions of the last two sea campaigns

The MAYOBS 3 and 4 campaigns identified a new lava flow and produced the first images of the seabed. Meetings and debriefings with the various stakeho...

31 July 2019

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Raphaël Grandin, Gauthier Hulot and Robin Lacassin recognized by AGU

Two IPGP researchers have been rewarded by their peers for their outstanding work in the field of Earth and planetary sciences, and another for his si...

10 July 2019

Press, Research

MoMARSAT Sea Campaign 2019

Conducted by IFREMER and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP-Université de Paris), the MOMARSAT 2019 at-sea campaign runs from June 11 to...