07 October 2016
Proxima b may be be home to oceans, says CNRS
...hot" for water to exist in liquid form, said a CNRS statement on Thursday, October 6. "The planet may very well... be covered by a single, liquid ocean 200 km deep," said the CNRS. "In both cases, a thin, gassy atmosphere could surround the planet, like...
09 April 2021
Around 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls to Earth each year
...year period, an international team of scientists from the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), the Universite Paris... Heading up six expeditions in the snowy wilderness is CNRS researcher Jean Duprat and a dedicated team of scientists ...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
.... Vincent Tatischeff, co-Lead Proposer of the e-ASTROGAM mission, is Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Orsay, France, and has long experience in nuclear physics and gamma-ray astrophysics from space. Marco...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... to France with a Marie-Curie fellowship in 2006. She entered the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2008 as a researcher first class (CR-1), and is now on leave while leading ThrustMe. She has more than 60 refereed...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... on Planetary Protection, and is at the Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA), Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, France. Gerhard Kminek is Vice-Chair of the bureau of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection, and...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... of life in the solar system. About the author Athena Coustenis is Director of Research with the French CNRS based at the Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA) of Paris Observatory. Her research focuses on the...
