Planetology and Space Sciences Team Projects

Coordinators : Elvira Astafyeva

January 2023 - December 2026

IONO-DIET

The Project IONO-DIET aims to develop, for the first time, ionosphere-based methods that will detect earthquakes and tsunamis in near-real-time (NRT),...

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

September 2022

National organization

Ile-de-France Planets

Ile-de-France Planets is a community of planetary scientists who work in Paris and the surrounding region of Ile-de-France.

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez, Conor A. Nixon

July 2022 - December 2023

International partnership outside Europe

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Guaranteed Time Observer cycle 1: Titan Climate, Composition and Clouds

We focus on the extremely broad capability of the combined JWST instrument suite to advance our understanding of Titan’s gases, hazes, condensates (cl...

Coordinators : Antoine Lucas

January 2022

SIERRA - remote-SensIng modEling from aRchived glacieR imAges

This a technical project which aims at developing new algorithms in order to model sensor from archived images acquired during the 20's century. We wi...

Coordinators : Philippe Lognonné, Mark Panning

June 2021 - June 2026

Farside Seismic Suite

The FarSide Seismic Suite mission, under the responsibility of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (PI, M. Panning), will deploy an autonomous seismic stati...

Coordinators : Philippe Lognonné, Pierre Simoneau

June 2021 - August 2025

Venus-Earth Atmospheric Monitoring for Seismicity (VeAMOS)

At the beginning of the 21th century, the Earth ocean remains a territory where the deployment of dense seismic network is extremely challenging, due ...

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez, Sandrine Vinatier

January 2021 - December 2025

National partnership

ANR project : 3D radiative transfer in cloudy planetary atmospheres: applications to Titan, Venus and Mars

The main objective of this project is to develop a full 3D radiative transfer (RT) model in spherical geometry for the study of horizontally heterogen...

Coordinators : Mark Wieczorek

January 2021

International partnership outside Europe

Lunar Vertex (NASA)

Co-investigator of the Lunar Vertex (NASA) rover. Launch towards the Moon: 2024

Coordinators : Cécile Ferrari

January 2020 - December 2023

ADSINTHE - Directional Anisotropy of Surfaces/Soils in the THermal INfrared

Coordinators : Sébastien Rodriguez

January 2020

National partnership

APR CNES: Development of super-resolution mapping methods for Icy moons: Applications to Titan and future observations of Ganymede and Callisto by ESA's JUICE mission

Preparing the forthcoming JUICE mission by benefiting from super-resolution mapping methods developed for Cassini/Huygens data. JUICE mission aims ...

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 : Antoine Lucas

January 2020

Campaign and mission

EROSAT

Because of their role in erosion and sediment supply in rivers, gravity instabilities are one of the most important geophysical processes in explainin...