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Internal structure and impact processes in asteroids Missions: Hera-Dart Others projects: CFEPS, NEO-MAPP |
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Meteoritos, asteroides, cometas y ciencias planetarias
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Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets and Planetary Sciences Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: Hera-Dart, Stardust, Hayabusa Others projects: Red de Bólidos SPMN-FRIPON |
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Instituto de Técnicas Energéticas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Meteorite Sample Analysis Laboratory Infrastructure: Laboratory |
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Instrumentation development Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: MSL/REMS, Insight-TWINS, Mars2020/MEDA, LISA Others projects: Europlanet, MiniPINS (ESA)
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Atmospheres of planets and exoplanets Missions: Mars Express/VMC, Venus Express/VMC/VIRTIS, JUICE/JANUS/MAJIS, JUNO, Cassini-Huyges, Mars2020/MEDA/SuperCam e Insight Observatories-Instruments: PlanetCam, PlanetCam-NIR Others projects: Europlanet, Aula Espazio Gela
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Meteorites and materials / instruments for space missions Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: ExoMars/RLS, Mars2020/SuperCam
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Celestial Mechanics This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Solar System Dynamics, Exoplanets, dynamical Systems, Planetary Physics, Tidal effects
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Solar System minor bodies, planetary geology This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Planetary geology of minor bodies of Solar System: Kuiper Belt, TNO, comets, NEOS, etc |
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Atmósferas Planetarias Terrestres
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Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan and exoplanets Missions: TGO/NOMAD, TMED/SABER, Envisat/MIPAS Observatories-Instruments: SATI, MIMA Others projects: Europlanet, UPWARDS
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Cuerpos Menores del Sistema Solar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Asteroids, comets, trans-Neptunian objects, ... Missions: Rosetta/OSIRIS/GIADA, Comet Interceptor Observatories-Instruments: ESBO Others projects: NEOS
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Heliophysics and solar magnetosphere Missions: Solar Orbiter/PHI Observatories-Instruments: EST, SUNRISE/IMaX+
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Plasmas en Atmósferas Planetarias
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Lightning and transient electric discharges in the atmosphere and in the laboratory Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: ISS/ASIM, ISS/TARANIS Observatories-Instruments: GRASSP, GALIUS, ORISON
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Giant planets, Titan, Mercury, comets Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: Bepi/BELA, JUICE/GALA/JANUS, Comet Interceptor/CoCa/MANIAC/EnVisS/OPIC, EnVision/VenSpec
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Mineral dust and aerosols in atmospheres and comets Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: Comet Interceptor/EnVisS
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Unidad de Desarrollo Instrumental y Tecnológico
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Instrumentation, electronics, mechanics, optics, software, ... Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: TGO/NOMAD, Solar Orbiter/PHI Observatories-Instruments: CARMENES, GRASSP, MEGARA, PANIC, Sunrise/IMAX
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Meteoroides, Meteoritos y Cuerpos Menores
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Meteoroids, meteorites, and minor bodies Missions: Lumio Others projects: SMART, MIDAS, P3NEO-I |
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Astrobiology, Cosmochemistry, organic matter in meteorites, comets and asteroids Infrastucture: Laboratory Missions: Hayabusa.2
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Biología Molecular This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Microbiology and Astrobiology Missions: Mars Express
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Thermal and tectonic surface structure of planets and moons Missions: Insight, Envision Others projects: UPWARDS, AMARTE
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Astronomía y Geodesia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Optimization of orbits of space missions Missions: MetNET-Meiga
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Cálculo Fraccionario y Atmósfera de Marte This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Modeling and simulation of fractional calculation and atmosphere of Mars Missions: MetNET-Meiga, Mars Express/Marsis, ... |
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Arquitectura de Sistemas Distribuidos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Data computing systems Missions: Mars Express/MARSIS/SPICAM, ExoMars TGO, ExoMars 2022 Others projects: INTIME
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Geofísica Planetaria This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Martian surface, atmosphere and ionosphere Missions: Mars Express/MARSIS/HRSC, ... |
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Characterization of cold stars and exoplanets, spectroscopy Missions: Kepler, K2, TESS, Gaia Observatories-Instruments: CARMENES |
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Meteorite Research, Planetary Geosciences, Astrobiology Missions: ExoMars, Mars2020, MSL
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Joint Center for Ultraviolet Astronomy (JCUVA)
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Ultraviolet study of planets and exoplanets Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: WSO-UV Space Telescope
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Área de Geología This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Planetary geology and astrobiology on terrestrial planets
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Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Development of space technology and instrumentation Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: ExoMars TGO/NOMAD, Rosetta/OSIRIS; Solar Orbiter/PHI, EPD; ARIEL Observatories-Instruments: SUNRISE/IMAX+ Others projects: UPMSat-2
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Space Instrumentation Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: MSL, ExoMars, Insight, Mars2020 Others projects: EuroPlanet, MiniPINS (ESA)
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Geología Planetaria y Atmósferas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Planetary habitability. Mineralogy, geochemistry and geodynamics Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: ExoMars/RLS, Mars2020/MEDA, JUICE, MMX/RAX, DART-Hera
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Biomoléculas en Exploración Planetaria This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Detection of molecular biomarkers by bio-affinity Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: SOLID, IceBreaker, LMC (ExoMars)
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Habitabilidad y Ambientes Extremos This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Habitability and Extreme Environments Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: ExoMars, MSL, Mars2020 Others projects: Europlanet
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Medio Interestelar y Circunestelar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Astrochemistry and interstellar, protoplanetary, lunar and cometary ice analogs Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: JUICE, Rosetta
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Formación y Evolución de Estrellas, Enanas Marrones y Planetas This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Formation and Evolution of Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Planets Observatories-Instruments: CARMENES
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Scientific exploitation of astronomical archives Others projects: SVO
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Biomoléculas en superficies This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Biomolecules on surfaces under planetary simulation conditions Infrastructure: laboratory Others projects: Planetary Simulation Chamber - PASC
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Ingeniería de Sensores Espaciales This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Development of space instrumentation, small satellites and exploration probes Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: Mars2020, ExoMars2016, ExoMars2022, MetNet Others projects: MiniPINS (ESA), MarsConnect (INTA)
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Magnetometry, planetary magnetic mineralogy and characterization of magnetic signature Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: ExoMars2022/AMR, Bepi Colombo, Meiga-MetNet
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Óptica Espacial This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Instrumentation and research in space optics Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: ExoMars2022/Raman, MMX/RAX, Rosetta, Bepi C., ExoMars2016/Dreams, Meiga-MetNet, Ariel, Echo, JWST/MIIRI, SO-PHI
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Área de Investigación e Instrumentación Atmosférica (AIIA) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Physical-chemical investigation of the terrestrial and martian atmosphere Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: Mars2020/RDS, Exomars 2022/SIS
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Laboratorio de Radiación y Meteorología Espacial This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Space radiation environment and effects. Radiation tests. Space meteorology Infrastructure: Laboratory, Radiation monitors for stratospheric balloons: AIR Others projects: RADNEXT y HEMERA (H2020)
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Instituto de Estructura de la Materia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Ice lab, infrared spectroscopy, chemistry Infrastructure: Laboratory
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Plasma and magnetosphere Missions: SOHO, Solar Orbiter, Bepi Colombo, Cluster,
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Ice on frozen moons (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, ...) Missions: JUICE, Cassini-Huygens
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Exploration of Mars, surface and atmosphere Missions: Mars Express, Trace Gas Orbiter, ExoMars
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Mercury surface spectroscopy Missions: Bepi Colombo, Messenger
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Asteroids, comets, and cometary dust Missions: Rosetta, HERA
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Martian environment and materials analysis laboratory and instrumentation Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: Mars2020/SuperCam
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Astrogeology and planetary analogs Infrastructure: Spectroscopy, remote sensing, mapping and planetary habitability
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Near Earth Asteroids Others projects: EuroNear |
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Toward the detection and charaterization of other Earths
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Exoplanet research and Solar System Planet atmospheres Missions: CHEOPS, PLATO, ARIEL, AKATSUKI (JAXA), CASSINI, VENUS EXPRESS Observatories-Instruments: ESPRESSO@VLT, future NIRPS, SPIROU@CFHT, HIRES@ELT Others projects: SWEET-Cat
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Development of new instrumentation Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: PLATO, CHEOPS, ARIEL Observatories-Instruments: ESPRESSO@VLT, future NIRPS, HIRES@ELT,
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Ciencia y Tecnología del Plasma y el Espacio This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Atmospheric dynamics of planets od the Solar System Missions/Instruments: AKATSUKI/IR1+IR2+LIR+UVI, VEx/VIRTIS+VMC IRTF/SpeX+iSEHELL+MIRSI |
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Pequeños Cuerpos del Sistema Solar This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Small bodies and objects close to the ground Missions: OSIRIS-REx, Gaia, JWST, Euclid, Hera/Dart, CASTALIA, CASTAway, Hayabusa2 Observatories-Instruments: GTC/OSIRIS/EMIR, NOT/ALFOSC, TNG/NICS, INT/IDS,... Others projects: NEOROCKS, NEO-MAPP, CLASS, PRIMASS,EURONEAR, J-PLUS, J-PASS
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Exoplanets and astrobiology Missions: CoRoT, Kepler, K2, CHEOPS, XO, WFC, PLATO, ARIEL, TESS Observatories-Instruments: CARMENES, GTC / OSIRIS / EMIR / HORUS, WHT / LIRIS, HARPSN, LCOGT, ...
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Space instrumentation and telescopes (optical, electronic, mechanical, SW, ...) Infrastructure: Instrumentation Missions: Marco Polo-R/THERMAP, Solar Orbiter/SOPHI, Euclid-NISP, PLATO, ISS/IRCAM, ... Observatories-Instruments: GTC, GREGOR, WHT, VTT, TIP II, SUNRISE/IMaX Others projects: CTA, NRT, EST, ELT, OPTICON, OGS, TTNN
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Ice and solid characterization laboratory Infrastructure: Laboratory
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Espectroscopía Raman e Infrarroja
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Cosmogeochemistry and Astrobiology with Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy Infrastructure: Laboratory Missions: ExoMars/RLS, Mars2020/SuperCam, MMX/RAX Others projects: H2020-Compet “PTAL” (Planetary Terrestrial Analogue Library)
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Giant planets atmospheres Missions: Cassini, HST Observatories-Instruments: PlanetCam
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Agrupación Aeroespacial - SpaceLab
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Development of space technology for satellites Infrastructure: Small satellites Missions: Comet Interceptor
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Cultural astronomy, observational astrophysics and databases Missions: Gaia
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Geochemistry of Mars: modeling, mineralogy, laboratory analogs Missions: MSL/CheMin
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Geodinámica Planetaria This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Geomorphology of Mars and planetary geological mapping
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This interdisciplinary community encompasses not only research on planets, moons, rings, asteroids, comets and other features of our solar system, but also other broader aspects such as astrobiology, the search for new exo-planets or the formation and dynamics of systems. planetariums.
In the technological and engineering area, our community includes several first-rate international instrumentation laboratories and representatives of the Spanish aerospace industry with a presence in practically all the missions of the European (ESA) and American (NASA) space agencies, both in the development of instrumentation and flight components as in the area of ground segment, data processing and operations.
We want to highlight the collaboration of communication professionals and scientific dissemination as main elements of the community to ensure the visibility of planetary sciences in all areas of society, from presence in the media to inclusion in programs education at all levels to improve knowledge of planetary sciences and social and institutional sensitivity.
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