Planetology and Space Sciences Team Projects

Coordinators : Cécile Ferrari

January 2020 - December 2023

International partnership outside Europe

PNP - PISTE - Properties of Icy Surfaces from their Thermal Emission

Coordinators : Philippe Lognonné

September 2019 - February 2024

National partnership

Mars Geophysical InSight (MAGIS) ANR

The InSight mission (Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) landed successfully on Mars on November 26, 2018....

Coordinators : Sebastien de Raucourt

January 2019 - December 2023

PIONEERS

PIONEERS is funded by the biggest European Union Research and Innovation program, the Horizon 2020 program. Horizon 2020 aims to bring great ideas fro...

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 : Mark Wieczorek

January 2017

Software

shtools (python software)

pyshtools is an archive of Python software that can be used for spherical harmonic transforms, multitaper spectral analyses, expansions of gridded dat...

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