Mars and UK in Aurora Meeting
Crustal Differentiation on Mars: A New View of the Red Planet Forty Years after Viking The 5th UK in the Aurora Programme Meeting. November 11th 2016, Royal Astronomical Society, London. Professor John C. Bridges, Space Research Centre, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester j.bridges@le.ac.uk Dr Susanne P. Schwenzer, Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems, The Open University susanne.schwenzer@open.ac.uk Forty years after the Viking mission landings on Mars in 1976, our view of Mars as an inactive, basaltic planet has changed radically. Recent results from Mars...
Read MoreThe Barrie Jones Award Lecture
The Barrie Jones Award Lecture Thursday 7th July 2016 14:30 Berrill Lecture Theatre The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA The Open University (OU) has named its first recipient of an astrobiology award in memory of the late Professor Barrie Jones – an OU astrobiologist. Lisa Kaltenegger, Director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient: http://as.cornell.edu/news/prof-lisa-kaltenegger-named-inaugural-recipient-barrie-jones-award OU names first recipient of astrobiology legacy award Lisa will be delivering the...
Read MoreSymposium: Astronomy and Astrobiology Education
International Symposium on Astronomy and Astrobiology Education: theory, methods, impacts and future directions (Utrecht, July 3-8, 2017) This international symposium, co-sponsored by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the European Astrobiology Campus (EAC). It is designed to bring education research in astronomy in general, and in astrobiology in particular, to the professional scientific community. Education has always played a large role in the field of astrobiology and in part this workshop is a follow-up of the successful International Workshop on Education in Astrobiology...
Read MoreARIEL Science Conference
On behalf of Giovanna Tinetti: We kindly invite you to attend the ARIEL (Atmospheric Remote-Sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) science conference to be held at the University Foundation, Egmontstraat 11 rue d’Egmont, in Brussels (Belgium) on November 21-23, 2016. ARIEL is one of the 3 European Space Agency medium class candidate missions competing for selection in 2017 as M4 for a launch in 2025/6. ARIEL will investigate the atmospheres of several hundreds of planets orbiting distant stars. During its 3.5-year mission, ARIEL will observe approximately 500 exoplanets ranging from...
Read MoreEvent: An Evening with the Planets
[On behalf of Joanna Fabbri (UCL)]: The UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences presents: An Evening with the Planets 2016! What? Join us for an open evening of presentations and discussion about the world-class planetary research going on at UCL and Birkbeck. When? Monday 20 June 2016, from 18:00 – 20:30. Where? UCL Marquee, Front Quad Who? Presentations and discussion with the CPS programme coordinators, early-career researchers and postgraduate students. Programme: 18:00 – Arrivals and posters – a chance to discover the cutting-edge research currently being carried out by...
Read MoreSummary of RAS Discussion Meeting on Space Resources
A summary of the Royal Astronomical Society Discussion Meeting on space resources, held in London on 8 April, is available on arXiv. The meeting examined how science will benefit from the use of extraterrestrial resources. Videos of the talks can be viewed online at the RAS website. [Image credit: NASA]
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