🔵 @AveqKimika estuvo presente en la 4ª Conferencia Europea sobre Seguridad de Plantas y Procesos #EPSC2024 en #Barcelona. Nuestros compañeros Amets Moreno y Jon Ibañez participaron activamente, reforzando el compromiso con la #seguridadindustrial. www.aveq-kimika.es/noticias/ave...
Such an exciting mission. I went to the Hera/Apophis meeting at #EPSC2024 and Ramses had everyone talking, despite how cool Hera also is
And that's a wrap (for me at least). Leaving #EPSC2024 with lots of new ideas, both for research and upcoming lectures. Good to remind myself why I love this stuff, away from the admin, proposals, and overall madness of academia.
A screenshot of the zoom, showing my webcam on the left and a slide describing TFOM (The Future of Meetings) as a community of practice dedicated to improving online interactions through effective use of technology and meeting design principles.
A slide from the talk showing a view of the virtual exhibit. It looks a bit like a museum with several rooms and slightly spaceship look to the design. In one room, a model of a radio antenna can be seen. The text note that the scene was designed in Unity and deployed on the spatial platform. It is accessible by headset, web browser or smartphone app.
A slide showing one of the animated models. The Phased Array Feed (PAF) is an integral part of the ASKAP antenna, and here we see one expanding outwards to see its individual inner layers. A hologram of a CSIRO member is describing what you see.
A slide showing the virtual space with five avatars standing around chatting. The text notes that tours were conducted in the virtual space by experts who could join from anywhere in the world.
Talk 2 for #EPSC2024 in the bag! This was a project with @futuremeetings.bsky.social to design a virtual exhibit hall for the CSIRO ASKAP radio telescope, taking advantage of the online space to show animated models and get tours from ASKAP experts who were in different locations around the globe!
Lots of discussions about the #Uranus flagship over coffee here at #EPSC2024, particularly on how to move forwards with an international partnership in these uncertain times. In the mean time, materials from the May 2024 meeting at GSFC are available here: icegiants.jhuapl.edu/events/index...
screen shot from the zoom at EPSC. On the right is my webcam. My virtual backdrop is a image of asteroid Ryugu. On the left are my slides. The current slide is a image from the spacecraft as it collects a sample from asteroid Ryugu.
Action shot landing on an asteroid from #EPSC2024!
Here at #EPSC2024 in Berlin, we learned that the navigation for the #ESAJuice flyby was near-perfect, saving propellant that’ll ultimately be used in the Jupiter system. RIME (the radar that struggled to unfold after launch) measured radar reflections from the Moon to characterise the instrument.
My talk at #EPSC2024 today is at 11:50pm local time. And people, I cannot guarantee I will (a) make it at all or (b) do anything more than gesture vaguely at the slides while clicking forward.
I haz asteroid grains. I took them... places. And now many peeps can see them. Yay.
An academic poster at stand I13 titled, "Environmental Proxies for Future Mars Sample Return: Novel Terrestrial Analogues in an Alkaline Lake"
I'll be at my poster from 2:30 -4:30 today, and probably also during coffee breaks too. 😄 #EPSC2024
You heard it here at #EPSC2024 first, folks, in the Uranus session.
“It’s windy, we don’t know why.”
Alright, I've been on here for almost a year now, so I should probably post something! This week I'm at the #EPSC2024 planetary science conference in Berlin. Here is a scale model of Juice, a satellite currently on its way to Jupiter
According to Colin Wilson speaking at #EPSC2024, Mars Express uses just 200g of fuel a year.
Despite being rather squiffy, Mars is massive enough that the spacecraft is in a proper orbit which doesn't require fuel to prevent an unplanned landing. The 200g/yr is for attitude control.
This has been a busy summer! I'm now at #EPSC2024, having presented about using science fiction for science outreach + education and the books #LifeBeyondUs & #StrangestOfAll that we created at the #EuropeanAstrobiologyInstitute, and I spent most of the previous week in Leiden at the Lorentz Center.
This H2O2 is an oxidant, which then returns to the subsurface ocean (maybe helped down by brine percolation through cracked ices of chaos terrains), and could react with reductants on the ocean floor. The released chemical energy could be key for the habitability potential of Europa #EPSC2024
The localisation of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and CO2 in Europa’s chaos terrains, as recently explored by JWST, was the subject of an #EPSC2024 talk by Raut. CO2 from the subsurface ocean reaches the surface, is processed by energetic particles, which then boosts H2O2 production by a factor of ~3x.
So if there is/was a rather shallow liquid layer down beneath Ganymede’s surface, then hopefully #ESAJuice will reveal evidence of its distribution, extent, and evolution, when it orbits the icy moon with a radar, gravity sensing, and altimetry in the 2030s #EPSC2024
Interesting study of palimpsests (flat impact features with concentric arcs and flat, undulating plains) on Ganymede by Moore+2024 (arxiv.org/abs/2408.13398), e.g. Buto Facula. To prevent formation of a classic crater, simulations need liquid layer 5-10 km down to create the flat plains #EPSC2024
Clipper will get as close as 25 km to Europa. Hardware delivered to Kennedy in May, after thermal vacuum testing in the JPL space simulator. Solar arrays (10 panels, 80 m2, delivering 700W power) integrated at Kennedy, making Clipper is 25 m wide tip to tip. #EPSC2024
#EPSC2024 day two kicking off with an update from Europa Clipper, which cleared a major hurdle yesterday and is now cleared for launch October 10th. Out to Mars (2025), Earth (2026) and Jupiter arrival in 2030. 79 Jupiter orbits with 49 Europa flybys, 7 and 9 of Ganymede & Callisto, respectively.
Berlin #EPSC2024, Helsinki #EPSC2025, The Hague #EPSC2026, Toulouse #EPSC2027. A bright future for the Europlanet meetings ahead, mark your calendars!
Potentially unpopular opinion here, but I have mixed feelings about the Q&A sessions at #EPSC2024, which occur after batches of talks. Works ~OK when all four talks are similar and a discussion gets started, but if they differ in topic, it’s a bit of a mess and some speakers don’t get “airtime.”
So Juno shows Jupiter’s core is dilute and large, but requires low metallicity, if we trust the hydrogen equation of state in extreme conditions. But the atmosphere is enriched (as are all the other giants). I get the impression we’ll be hearing about this at conferences for years to come #EPSC2024
It’s a perfect storm of model dependence, limited lab constraints under extreme conditions, and scant observational data. But if the enrichment we measure in the atmosphere doesn’t represent the bulk, it’s not quite as useful a “time capsule” for planetary origins as we once thought. #EPSC2024
Maybe Jupiter’s atmosphere is decoupled from the interior, and enriched by gradual pollution (i.e., lots of SL9 comets) over billions of years. But how? Lots of models out there with stable layers deep down, and diffuse cores whose size in models depends on knowledge of hydrogen-helium. #EPSC2024
Several of the Jupiter #EPSC2024 talks touched on the same conundrum: interior models don’t seem to be able to support supersolar chemical enrichment without big changes to understanding of hydrogen/helium, but the atmosphere we can see is clearly enriched. So what gives?
TASTE for Deimos!—says J. Brucato at #EPSC2024 —On plans by Italy to send a double-CubeSat to the outer Martian Moon, consisting of a 16U orbiter and 4U lander that will sample and analyse in-situ. This would be a wonderful compliment to JAXA’s upcoming MMX mission, which will focus on Phobos 🛰️
Early start to #EPSC2024, presented our concept for the future of Mars weather monitoring and forecasting to support human exploration
#Mars #exploration
