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EnVision ESA Mission | The LPG team, scientific leader of the Radio Science experiment
Selected by ESA's Science Program Committee, the EnVision space mission will be launched in 2032. It will be the fifth medium-class mission of the Cosmic Vision plan. This orbiter to the planet...
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Jupiter's moon, Europa, may have active volcanoes on its ocean floor
A new collaborative study between LPG, Charles University in Prague, and JPL-Caltech (Pasadena) shows that tidal heating would be able to maintain volcanic activity on the ocean floor of...
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CEISAM and LPG are developing an experimental approach to study insoluble organic matter in ice satellites
It is only very recently that evidence has been obtained suggesting that a significant amount of insoluble organic matter is present in solar system objects that are sufficiently distant from the...
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Mission to the outlet of the Kronebreen glacier in the Arctic
The Svalbard Islands are currently the area of the Arctic most affected by the effects of climate change. In the archipelago, the numerous fjords show more or less advanced signs of its...
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Mars didn’t dry up in one go
Press release CNRS 2021 The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons), a mountain several...
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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 - PhD subjects 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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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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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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