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Quartz discovered for the first time on Mars by the Perseverance rover, attesting to ancient water circulation on the Red Planet

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 […]

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Could Mars have had a tropical climate in the past?

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 […]

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Well-awaited gathering with BepiColombo for its sixth Mercury flyby!

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 […]

Research teams

Dynamics of Planetary Interiors (DIP)

Physics of the Sun, Stars and Exoplanets (PS2E)

Planets, Environments and Space Plasmas (PEPS)

Projects

DEMETER / IDP

EISCAT / EISCAT 3D

EnVision

Rosetta / Rosina

SWARM

Taranis / IDEE and Xgre

SNO

CLUSTER / CIS

HelioSwarm

Mars 2020 / SuperCam

MMS

MSL / ChemCAM

SKATE

SuperDARN

TARANIS