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Rebelred project: mission aboard the Thalia Ifremer-Genavir

In a context of climate change, the Loire River is experiencing periods of increasingly intense low water levels. As a consequence, anoxic episodes in the Loire estuary continue despite the...

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LPG - Doctorate PhD 2021

Each year, The "Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique" welcome students to prepare doctorate, in earth and Planets Sciences. You will find below, by way of example, the thesis subjects...

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Ice wedge polygons observed on Mars

The planet Mars is known to have abundant water ice, but hidden just below the surface, in the planet's soil. Since the low quality photographs from the Mariner missions in the 1960s and 1970s, ...

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CNRS bronze medal 2020 awarded to Susan Conway

Portrait of a researcher in planetary geomorphology, specialising in the study of the processes on the surface of Mars : "During my degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, one of my geology...

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Eruptions of mud on Mars in the past ?

Exploration of Mars has revealed the presence of large outflow channels which have been interpreted as the products of catastrophic flood events during which a large quantity of water was released...

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Researchers establish new timeline for ancient magnetic field on Mars

Mars had a global magnetic field much earlier and much later in the planet's history than scientists have previously known. A planet’s global magnetic field arises from what scientists call a...

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Reading rocks to find water on early Mars is an interesting scientific challenge

A 200-metre-high cliff at the edge of one of the largest impact craters in the solar system tells the story of an ancient water landscape. The cliff consists of sedimentary rocks, 3.7 billion years old,...

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Last publications

P. Alken, E. Thébault, C. ~D. Beggan, H. Amit, J. Aubert and J. Baerenzung et al. International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the thirteenth generation, Earth, Planets, and Space, Vol. 73. 2021. [More]

N. Murdoch, A. Spiga, R. Lorenz, R. F. Garcia, C. Perrin and R. Widmer‐Schnidrig et al. Constraining Martian regolith and vortex parameters from combined seismic and meteorological measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Vol. 126, pp. 1-18, Feb, 2021. [More]

A. Spiga, N. Murdoch, R. Lorenz, F. Forget, C. Newman and S. Rodriguez et al. A Study of Daytime Convective Vortices and Turbulence in the Martian Planetary Boundary Layer Based on Half‐a‐Year of InSight Atmospheric Measurements and Large‐Eddy Simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Vol. 126, pp. 1-28, Jan, 2021. [More]

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Our laboratory is a mixed research unit which depends on the CNRS, and the universities of Nantes and Angers. It includes one hundred of research actors working on four thematics : Changing Marine Systems, Planet Earth, Diverse Icy Worlds and Terrestrials Planets.

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