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Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) Meetings
The APEX series of meetings is held on Thursdays at 1pm in the Garwood Lecture Theatre, located on the 1st Floor, South Wing, UCL: APEX Programme
Exoplanet Journal Club
The Exoplanet journal club has been established by the Exoplanet and Exomol groups in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Meetings are run bi-weekly on Wednesdays from 2-3 pm in room E7, ground floor of the Physics building. The next meeting will take place on the 12th of December.
If you are interested in joining this club, please contact Camilla Danielski
CPS News and Events
Exoplanet Journal Club
The Exoplanet journal club has been established by the Exoplanet and Exomol groups within the Department of Physics and Astronomy. More...
Prof. Ian Crawford receives STFC award to identify source localities of lunar meteorites
Prof. Ian Crawford (CPS, Birkbeck) has been awarded a grant of £99,318 by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
to identify the source localities of lunar meteorites. This study will
combine spacecraft remote sensing observations of the Moon with
laboratory analyses of lunar meteorites. The grant will fund a PhD
studentship starting in April 2013.
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ESA selects instruments to be flown on its icy moons mission
The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission (JUICE) will study Jupiter and its large, ice/ocean-bearing moons. JUICE is planned to launch in 2022 and arrive in 2030. Dr Nick Achilleos (CPS / UCL Astrophysics) is part of the J-MAG Consortium, an international team of investigators who have successfully proposed one of the 11 scientific experiments to be flown on board this mission. More...
Planet Earth Online features CPS astrobiology work in Iceland, led by Dr Claire Cousins
The Natural Environment Research Council have featured a news article on astrobiology work in Iceland carried out by CPS members on their 'Planet Earth Online' website. The article is based on a paper in press with the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, led by Dr Claire Cousins, entitled "Glaciovolcanic hydrothermal environments in Iceland and implications for their detection on Mars". More...
APEX Talk Thu 24 Jan: The Late Heavy Bomardment
This term's Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) programme will get underway this Thursday (24 Jan) at 13:00 in the Garwood Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor, UCL South Wing). The first talk of the term will be given by:
Dr Adrian Jones: The Late Heavy Bombardment: A Paradigm Transformed?
As always, everyone interested is welcome to attend.
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MAPS Graduate Open Day
If you are interested in postgraduate study in the area of Planetary Sciences, please come along to the UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences Graduate Open Day.
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"Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration" - Special Issue of Planetary and Space Science
Together with James Carpenter (ESA), Ralf Jaumann (DLR) and Charles Cockell (Edinburgh), Prof. Ian Crawford was a Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Planetary and Space Science devoted to the topic of "Scientific Preparations for Lunar Exploration" published in December 2012. The contents of this Special Issue can be viewed at the above link and includes a paper led by Prof. Crawford, entitled "Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration". More...
MAPS Institute of Origins Networking Event: Wed 31 Oct 2012
The first of a new series of UCL Institute of Origins networking events, to
enhance intellectual interaction across the MAPS faculty, takes place on Wednesday 31 October, from 3-5pm at the
North Cloisters UCL. The theme for the first event is "The Origins of
Life".
This will be an informal meeting style, with a brief introduction, followed by a few short (10 min each) research talks representing different
Origins disciplines, with time for discussion and networking over light
refreshments.
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November RS meetings relevant to origins of life
Dr. Nick Lane, a Senior Lecturer in Genetics, Evolution & Environment at UCL's Division of Biosciences, is co-organising a pair of meetings at the Royal Society this November, both of which have sessions on the origin of life and related questions relevant to the CPS: More...
"Dry" Gale Crater set for summer heat wave?
Preliminary results from Curiosity DAN (Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons) and REMS (Remote Environment Monitoring Station) data at the EPSC 2012 press conference this morning in Madrid: UStream recording (from 6 mins). More...
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