Mar 03, 2020
Yesterday, the scientific review panel of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has announced their decision about which young scientists will participate in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (#LINO70) from June 28th to July 3rd 2020. mehr
Feb 17, 2020
The BepiColombo spacecraft was launched in October 2018 and is currently on its long journey to Mercury. The joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) comprises two spacecraft: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), with a main focus on planetary science. However, BepiColombo also carries the X-ray and Energetic Particle Instrument SIXS, which is well suited to detect and study Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events, one of the main research topics of the Extraterrestrial Physics division at CAU. In November 2019 Dr. Nina Gieseler (neé Dresing) was selected as a Guest Investigator in the BepiColombo mission to employ the otherwise non-public data in a research field additional to planetary science. Adding this additional spacecraft as another viewpoint will be very valuable in the study of widespread and multi-spacecraft events.
Feb 10, 2020
Feb 08, 2020
Solar Orbiter is currently being prepared for launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at Plattform 41.
Fig. 1: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex [@ExploreSpaceKSC on Twitter]