Planets, Environments and Space Plasmas
The mechanical and thermal model (STM) of the Low-Energy Electron Spectrometer (LEES) instrument, for which IRAP is responsible, has successfully passed a series of environmental tests (temperature, vibration, and shock) […]
The study of the Jupiter system and the evolution of its moons toward habitability is at the heart of NASA’s extended Juno mission through 2025, and of the preparation of […]
Studying data from ESA’s Solar Orbiter space mission, a research team has discovered a new type of solar wind that challenges our understanding of the acceleration mechanisms of these streams […]
More than 500 light-years from Earth, wind gusts were flashed at 33,000 km/h on the exoplanet WASP-127b. These are the fastest gusts ever measured on a planet. This technical feat […]
An international research team involving a number of French laboratories (1), including the Institut de planétologie et d’astrophysique de Grenoble (OSUG – CNRS/UGA), the Institut de minéralogie, de physique des […]
Recent discoveries made by NASA’s Perseverance rover in the Jezero crater on Mars reveal fascinating clues to the history of water and geological activity on the Red Planet. An international […]
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew by Mercury for the sixth time, at an altitude of 295 km. This sixth and final flyby reduced the spacecraft’s speed […]
The Jovian magnetodisk refers to a thin disc of plasma and electric currents in the magnetosphere of Jupiter located near the equatorial plane beyond the orbit of the moon Io, […]
During two weeks in September 2024, a team of up to 14 people representing the DFP consortium was present in ESTEC to run a complete ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test campaign […]