The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL / Birkbeck

CPS Events Publications

• Cassini-Huygens
• MartianVolcano/ExoMarsRover
• Bioalteration of basaltic glasses/The NASA OSIRIS-REx mission
• Mercury after three-and-a-half years of MESSENGER's orbital mission
• Ancient glaciers on Mars? / Titan's topography 
• APEX: Astronomy from the Moon
• LIVE: Rosetta Comet Landing TODAY 
• APEX today: Lunar landing sites and non-terrestrial artefacts in the Solar System
• APEX: ET construction with 3D printers
• Final APEX this term: Dr Sidiropoulos reports on data mining planetary science image archives
• APEX today: Evidence for the earliest life on Earth
• How common are alien civilisations in our Galaxy? Come and find out at APEX, back this Thursday!
• Twinkle Community Workshop
• APEX this Thursday: How hot is the Moon's surface?
• APEX double-bill this week: life on Titan and Apollo 17 site crater study 
• APEX double-bill: Generating line lists for exoplanet atmosphere studies / Gas stations in space
• ASB6 at UCL in September - Final few weeks for registration and programme online
• APEX this Thursday: The impact of impacts
• APEX this week: Lunar resources
• Inaugural Professor Lecture: Giovanna Tinetti
• This week at APEX: Exoplanet Missions Plato2 and Twinkle 
• APEX this week is a 'rock' special: Martian regolith and lunar breccias
• Spectroscopy of Exoplanets Conference, 24-26 July 2015
• An Evening with the Planets!
• CPS Summer Meeting 2015
• ASB6 - A Public Talk by Professor Lynn Rothschild: The Search for Life in the Universe
• APEX double-bill: Iron silicides in meteorites & the provenance of materials in the solar nebula
• APEX double-bill: Prebiotic chemistry in S-S precursors and Robotic traverses for a Lunar farside sample-return mission
• APEX - Dr Adrian Jones: Impact processing of planetary crusts
• APEX: Dr Ashley King (NHM) - Preparing for asteroid sample return
• APEX this week: Indhu Varatharajan on Young lunar basalts
• Looking for Life on Mars - Prof. Andrew Coates at UCL's Lunch Hour Lecture
• APEX: Maggie Lieu - Can humans really relocate to Mars?
• APEX double bill: Potential lunar south pole landing sites / Inverted valleys in Arabia Terra, Mars
• APEX: Tue 8 Dec 2015 - CANCELLED
• Brave New Worlds: Understanding the planets of other stars
• Cometary science after Rosetta
• RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Extraterrestrial resources in facilitating space science and exploration
• APEX resumes Tue 26 Jan with a double-bill on unusual clasts found in meteorites
• Astrophysics seminar: Caroline Terquem on the dynamics of extrasolar planets on inclined orbits
• Special seminar: Prof. Raymond Pierrehumbert on climate change and exoplanets
• APEX this week: Moon and Mars
• APEX this week: Apollo artefacts and the story they have to tell
• APEX this week: The likelihood of extraterrestrial intelligence in light of the hominin fossil record
• APEX on Tuesday: Measuring the size of Earth's early biosphere
• APEX double bill: The search for life on Mars and Resource mining & ownership in space
• APEX double bill: Life and salts on Mars
• Final APEX this term: Cosmic dust by Dr Wozniakiewicz (Kent/NHM)
• Free CPS outreach evening: An Evening with the Planets 2016!
• CPS 6th Annual Summer Science Meeting - 21 June 2016
• Planetary Science MSc Virtual Open Day - Mon 5 June
• Summer Meeting 2017
• Free CPS outreach evening: An Evening with the Planets 2017!
• APEX back this week with Prof. Hilary Downes: Accretion of the Solar System
• APEX this week with Dr Ingo Waldmann: Dreaming of atmospheres
• APEX this week with Dr Angelos Tsiaras: Towards a population of exoplanetary atmospheres
• UCL Science Centre Lecture by Prof. David Price on Magnetism in the Solar System
• Life in our solar system: redefining the habitable zone - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture with Prof. Andrew Coates
• APEX double bill: Automated crater detection and ExoMars PanCam
• APEX this week with Dr Olivia Venot: The chemistry of exoplanets
• APEX this week: Dr Geraint Jones on the legacy of the Cassini space mission
• APEX this week: Dr Sylvain Bernard on organic biosignatures in ancient rocks
• APEX this week: Dr Kevin Devine on Martian soil analogue organic geochemistry
• APEX cancelled this week
• APEX resumes this Thursday with Prof. Nick Achilleos on Saturn's magnetosphere
• APEX double bill: Searching for organic signatures on Mars and why we should build a village on the Moon
• APEX double bill: Observing the Solar System with Twinkle and X-ray explorations of planets and moons
• APEX this week: The SMILE space mission
• APEX double bill: The first cell membranes and Black diamond and the core of a Neptune?
• Final APEX this term: A Mars Special
• APEX this week: The Cosmic Zoo
• UCL Space Week 9-13 April
• Prof. Nick Achilleos Inaugural Lecture
• CPS Summer Meeting 7 June at MSSL 
• ARIEL Celebrations
• RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, 14 December: 30 years of Planetary Astronomy with H3+ 
• An Evening with the Planets 2018, with Dr Suzie Imber: 15 Oct
• APEX is back! This week: Meteorite searches and a possible early habitability window for the Moon?
• APEX this week - Cometary geology: Insights from the Rosetta Mission
• APEX this week - Tracing planetary differentiation with experimental petrology
• APEX double bill: Light-curve modelling for atmospheric retrieval techniques and the space studies programme of the International Space University
• APEX double bill: The Twinkle space mission and reconstruction of complex Martian hydrological features
• APEX this week: An astrobiology special
• APEX this week: A Mars geology special
• Final APEX this term is a Mars double-bill