A Europlanet Society promove o avanço da ciência planetária europeia e campos relacionados para o benefício da comunidade e está aberta a membros individuais e organizações. Qualquer pessoa com um interesse ativo em ciências planetárias (seja acadêmica ou industrial, profissional ou amadora) é bem-vinda para se juntar à Sociedade.

Nossos objetivos:

• Expandir e apoiar uma comunidade planetária diversa e inclusiva em toda a Europa através das atividades dos nossos 10 centros regionais.
• Construir o perfil do nosso setor por meio de atividades de divulgação, educação e políticas.
• Apoiar o papel fundamental da Europa na ciência planetária, desenvolvendo ligações a nível nacional e internacional.

A Sociedade é o órgão principal do Europlanet Scientific Congress (EPSC), o maior encontro anual sobre ciências planetárias na Europa. Lançada em setembro de 2018, a Europlanet Society se baseia no legado de 15 anos de projetos da Europlanet financiados pela Comissão Europeia e fornece uma plataforma sustentável para a infraestrutura, instalações de acesso virtual, ferramentas e serviços desenvolvidos por meio dessas atividades.

A Europlanet Society é administrada por um Conselho Executivo eleito e suas atividades são apoiadas por Comitês e Grupos de Trabalho selecionados de seus membros. O Escritório Executivo da Sociedade é hospedado e administrado pela European Science Foundation em Estrasburgo.

O Spain & Portugal Regional Hub é o nó da Europlanet Society para a Península Ibérica. Criada em 2019, tem como objetivo promover e facilitar a concretização dos objetivos da Sociedade Europlanet em Espanha e Portugal, desenvolvendo laços entre estes e com o resto da Europa através da criação de redes de trabalho colaborativo nestas áreas.

A composição da Comissão que coordena o Nodo Ibérico é:

• Chair: Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo (ESAC)
• Representative for Spain: Adriano Campo Bagatín (Univ. Alicante)
• Representative for Portugal: Elisa Delgado Mena (IA-U Porto)
• Secretary: Francisco González Galindo (IAA/CSIC)
• Early Career Rep. Spain: Juan Luis Rizos (University of Maryland)
• Early Career Rep. Portugal: Daniela Espadinha (IA, Lisbon)
• Outreach & Communication Spain: Juan Ángel Vaquerizo (ISDEFE-CAB)
• Outreach & Communication Portugal: João Retre (IA, Lisbon)
• Industry Officer (Spain): Andrés Catalán (PAE, Madrid)
• Industry Officer (Portugal): Marta Gonçalves (Portugal Space, Lisbon)
• Diversity Officer: João Faria (IA, Porto)
• Policy Officer (Spain): Carlos García Sacristán (CDTI, Madrid)
• Amateur Community Officer: Joaquín Álvaro (FAAE/AstroCuenca)

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Lake Como School of Advanced Studies – Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy, 12-16 June 2023

Dear colleagues,

this year the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies will focus on exoplanetary science. The school is directed to MSc, PhD students and young postdocs who are interested in widening their knowledge in the field of exoplanets. Lecturers will report on theoretical, observational and experimental aspects of the research, reviewing the latest achievements in the field. The program includes:

Ahmed Al-Refaie (UCL) – Numerical models to interpret exoplanetary data
Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh) – Imaging extrasolar worlds
Masahiro Ikoma (NAOJ) – How do planets form and evolve?
Pierre Olivier Lagage (CEA) – Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
Malena Rice (MIT/Yale) – Orbital architectures of planetary systems
Giusi Micela (INAF – Osservatorio di Palermo) – The stellar environment
Jonathan Tennyson (UCL) – Molecular spectroscopy for exoplanets
Giovanna Tinetti (UCL) – Decoding the light of planets in our galaxy
Angelos Tsiaras (INAF – Osservatorio di Arcetri) – Analysis of exoplanetary data: a hands-on approach
Ingo Waldmann (UCL) – Artificial Intelligence and exoplanets

Participants can submit an abstract if they wish to present a poster or a short talk about their research. More information is available at:    

https://gatr2023.lakecomoschool.org/

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a China-ESA Mars School, to be run in May 2023 in Huairou, Beijing, China. It is jointly organised by the International Space Science Institute - Beijing (ISSI-BJ) and the European Space Agency (ESA), co-sponsored by National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences(NSSC, CAS).

Inspired by the scientific investigations conducted by an ever-growing fleet of missions, the Mars School aims to provide a broad overview of Martian planetary science, from its interior and surface to its atmosphere and interactions with space. Lectures will cover theoretical background & modelling to observation techniques & datasets, as well as the search for past or present life. The week will also include breakout discussions, social excursions, a poster session and potentially also a hands-on session with Mars mission data.  

The workshop will cover topics including: 

• Interior structure & evolution, Volcanism & tectonism, Mineralogy and climate evolution, Aqueous surface processes, Geomorphology,
• landscape evolution, Atmospheric dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry, Upper atmosphere,
• thermosphere, Aeronomy (airglows, aurorae etc), Space weather & radiation environment, Ionosphere,
• solar wind interaction & escape, Habitability and the search for life on Mars,
• Chinese & European Mars missions.

Lecturers and participants will be drawn both from Chinese and European Mars science communities.

Organization of the conference had been on hold due to coronavirus pandemic, but the recent changes of travel policy in China means that we now feel confident in being able to proceed with the conference. Accordingly, we will be opening application within the next week, with a foreseen application deadline of 24^th Feb 2023. This short deadline is in place to leave sufficient margin for selection of financial aid (see below) and subsequent visa support & travel booking.

ESA will provide full travel funding to enable participation by a small number (~12, tbc) of European early career scientists. Priority will be given to those who are no more than three years post-PhD. Applicants will be selected to achieve a balance of representation of ESA member states, of topical areas, and of gender – so we invite a broad range of applications.

All details about the programme, application, and financial support for European participants, will be announced via the conference website at http://marsschool2023.casconf.cn.

Colin Wilson (ESA) & Yang Liu (NSSC), co-chairs of the science committee.

Tytle:  Tackling Venus atmosphere from different approaches: theory-modelling, observations and space missions Reference of the FPI contract CEX2021-001131-S-20-1

Centre:  Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC

Type:  Predoctoral

Description:

Venus is in the spotlight of the public and scientific community after the selection of 3 missions:  DAVINCI and VERITAS by NASA and EnVision by ESA/NASA. It remains an open question how  Venus and the Earth started so similarly but become such different worlds. Thus, studying Venus is essential for understanding the links between planetary evolution and the habitability of terrestrial planets,  including those outside our Solar System. Several Earth-sized exoplanets have been recently detected in short-period orbits of a few Earth days around low-mass stars. Those planets have stellar irradiation levels several times that of the Earth, suggesting that a Venus-like climate is more likely than an  Earth-like. Consequently, the atmosphere of our closest planet Venus represents a relevant case to address observational prospects of rocky close-in orbit exoplanets.

The successful candidate will be in particular involved in EnVision mission, notably, he/she will join the international consortium of the high-resolution spectrographs VenSpec-H and VenSpec- U. She/he will use a sophisticated 3D model for Venus that has been developed since 2010 at LMD/IPSL in France, in the frame of a collaboration between different European institutions, including IAA-CSIC, to analyze and identify potential physical, chemical, or dynamical processes driving the variability of trace gases above the cloud tops of Venus (70 km altitude, approximately). Heterogenous chemical processes will be implemented and studied, and the impact of complex cloud models and scenarios on the water and sulphur species will be interpreted. These model developments will also contribute to the Venus Climate database (VCD), an online platform containing the meteorological fields derived from the Venus 3D Model and provides the scientific community with a climatology for many characteristics of the Venusian atmosphere from the surface to the exosphere, in addition, a similar but simplified condensation cloud model will be implemented into a  “Generic” 3D model, developed for exoplanets and paleoclimate studies, to simulate H2SO4-H2O clouds  “interactively” in the atmosphere of Venus-analogues around both Sun-like and M-dwarf stars, with the primary goal of providing realistic predictions of future observations of cloudy rocky exoplanets foreseen by the Webb Space Telescope and new-generation instruments and facilities (e.g. ELT).

The PhD thesis advisors will be Gabriella Gilli and Luisa M. Lara

Tytle: 3 PhD positions in IA-Porto for exoplanets

Centre:Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço

Type:  Predoctoral

Description:

The positions are offered in the context of the project "FIERCE: Finding Exoearths: tackling the challenges of stellar activity" funded by the European Research Council under an Advanced Grant with the reference 101052347. The work will be developed at CAUP (in the Porto node of the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço), under the scientific supervision of Nuno C. Santos and/or other members of the scientific team of IA.

Fellowship duration: Each fellowship should start between the 1st of September and the 1st of October 2023, renewable on a yearly basis, and has a maximum duration of 48 months

Work plan: The detection and characterisation of other Earths, planets with the physical conditions to hold liquid water and thus potential life-sustaining environments, is a bold objective of present-day astrophysics. This goal continuously pushes the development of new ground- and space-based instrumentation. However, the quest for other Earths is severely limited by astrophysical “noise” from the host stars, whose signatures distort the spectra used to detect and characterize the planets.

The PhD projects, offered in the context of one Advanced Grant funded by the European Research Council, are related with the development of new methods and analysis tools to tackle the problem of stellar noise in exoplanet research. In particular we expect the successful candidates to contribute to the development and exploitation of data from the PoET solar telescope and ESPRESSO spectrograph (ESO) to:

1) develop new approaches to reach the 10 cm/s barrier in Doppler radial velocity measurements needed to find and characterize other Earths orbiting other Suns;

2) model and correct stellar noise in transmission spectroscopy used to study exoplanet atmospheres.

Exoplanet data obtained with the ESPRESSO and NIRPS (ESO) spectrographs may also be made available.

The projects will have a strong impact on the exploitation of data from future ground-based projects and space-based missions such as ANDES@ELT (ESO) and PLATO (ESA).

Title: Massive navigation of planetary images from the PVOL database

Center: Universidad del País Vasco

Type: Postdoctoral

Description:

The Planetary Sciences Group at UPV/EHU in Bilbao, Spain, offers a short post-doc position of 10 months (extendable) to work with amateur images of Solar System planets in the PVOL database at http://pvol.ehu.eus. The contract is funded by the Europlanet 2024 Research Infraestructure as part of its VESPA activities.

The goal of the project is to develop a system to massively map in a semi-interactive way selected ground-based images of the planets, with the main target being Jupiter. These maps will be uploaded into the PVOL database and will be used to investigate changes in the atmospheres of the planet. While most of the work will be technical, science objectives will be linked to: (1) analysis of zonal winds and atmospheric changes on different time-scales; (2) improvement of spatial resolution by combining information of different maps from different observers. In addition, movies of the maps will show the planet’s dynamic atmosphere for outreach purposes.

The candidate will work with Artificial Intelligence techniques to identify the planet’s limb on the image files and fit an ellipse to the planet. Navigation will be provided by using the SPICE system. Formal training on SPICE will be given at the host institution. Most technical challenges will be related to pattern recognition (identifying the planet position and orientation on PVOL images).

Interested candidates should write to Ricardo Hueso (e-mail: Este endereço de email está protegido contra piratas. Necessita ativar o JavaScript para o visualizar.).

7ª edición de la Reunión de Ciencias Planetarias y Exploración del Sistema Solar (CPESS-7) 

La 7º reunión CPESS ("Ciencias Planetarias y Exploración del Sistema Solar") se llevará a cabo en Valladolid, España, del 11 al 13 de julio de 2023. Está organizado por el grupo de Investigación ERICA del departamento de Física Aplicada de la Universidad de Valladolid (UVa), con la colaboración de otros grupos e investigadores del campo de la Astrofísica de la UVa.

Como en eventos anteriores, el objetivo del encuentro es mostrar las actividades científicas y tecnológicas que se están realizando en el campo de la ciencia planetaria, desde los cuerpos de nuestro propio sistema solar hasta los exoplanetas, pasando por la instrumentación espacial, así como celebrar sesiones dedicadas sesiones de ciencia política y pequeñas misiones.

La participación es gratuita

Más información e inscripciones ...

Este evento está financiado mayoritariamente por RIA, con el apoyo de ICE, UVa, Ayuntamiento de Valladolid (AVA) y otros. Colabora, entre otros, el nodo ibérico de Europlanet Society Spain & Portugal - EPS (spainportugal-eps.org)

Dear Europlanet members, dear researchers and science communicators,

To celebrate the launch of ESA’s JUICE mission, Europlanet is releasing a new collection of free educational resources themed around icy moons in our Solar System. We are excited to release this new set of resources and lessons. We encourage you to discover them and let us know what you thought of them.

Please see the announcement below and share it as much as possible.

It is important for the sustainability of our outreach activities that the Europlanet community uses and promotes the resources we create. We are counting on you to make this release a success :)

We hope that science communicators, educators and teachers will have the opportunity to use the resources and share their feedback with us!

Best,
Ulysse Pedreira-Segade
Education Officer for Europlanet

https://www.europlanet-society.org/outreach/educational-resources-the-icy-moons-collection/

https://www.europlanet-society.org/juices-adventure-begins/

https://www.europlanet-society.org/outreach/educational-resources/

A REVISTA OFICIAL DA EUROPLANET, A COMUNIDADE EUROPEIA DA CIÊNCIA PLANETÁRIA.

Esta primeira edição tem um forte foco na Mars, incluindo contribuições europeias para as missões atuais, pesquisa experimental em laboratórios e no campo e iniciativas de divulgação para envolver a próxima geração. Olhamos para trás, para as origens da Europlanet e suas ligações com a missão Cassini-Huygens no início deste século. Também temos atualizações sobre o meteorito Winchcombe e sobre várias novas parcerias para apoiar a ciência planetária.

Confira a edição 1 e compartilhe com suas redes para nos ajudar a espalhar a palavra.

A segunda edição destaca algumas das ciências estimulantes apoiadas pelo programa de acesso transnacional da Europlanet, incluindo um projeto experimental para recriar fluxos marcianos no laboratório, campanhas de campo em Botswana e Groenlândia e acesso virtual às instalações na Coréia.