Origins Theme Projects

Coordinators : Guillaume Avice

January 2020

National partnership

CNES - EHVAV

The objective of the project is to provide experimental constraints on potential elemental and/or isotopic fractionation induced by high speed samplin...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2020

National partnership

CNES Research project: Dragonfly landing site characterization on Titan: geological and climatic history on the region of the Selk crater

Our project aims at implementing an original methodology coupling information extraction on the nature of Titan's surface (analysis of Cassini-Huygens...

Coordinators : Catherine Chauvel

January 2020 - December 2024

European partnership

ERC- SHRED

Studies of modern-day volcanic processes have revealed material surviving from the Hadean Eon, which occurred between 4.6 and 4 billion years ago. The...

Coordinators : Frederic Moynier

January 2020

National partnership

HAYABUSA 2

Study of the materials of the asteroid Ryugu brought back by the JAXA Hayabusa2 mission in 2020.

Coordinators : Frederic Moynier

January 2020

National partnership

MMX

Preparation of the JAXA MMX sample return mission from Phobos (Mars moon) with a departure from Earth in 2024.

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

January 2017

International partnership outside Europe

Psyche (NASA)

Co-investigator of the mission Psyche (NASA). Launch: 2023 Arrival at the asteroid (16) Psyche: 2029

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez, Pascal Rannou

December 2016

ANR project : Analysis of Photometric Observations for the Study of Titan Climate

The scope of this project is to understand Titan climate system with the use of a couple 3D General Circulation Model, and with a meteorological recor...

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

January 2013

European partnership

JUICE (ESA)

Co-investigator of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) Laser Altimeter. Launch: 2023 Arrival at the planet Jupiter: 2031

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2012 - December 2017

National partnership

ANR project : Characterization of the extra-terrestrial environments of Mars and Titan by the observation and simulation of dune fields

The scope of the EXO-DUNES project is to document dune features as well as the atmospheric and sedimentary processes that created and shaped them on M...

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

January 2005

European partnership

BepiColombo (ESA)

Co-investigator of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA). Launch: 2018 Arrival at the planet Mercury: 2025