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General Assembly

Tuesday 25 September 2012 - Madrid

EC Grant agreement n° 228319

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Project overview

EC Grant agreement n° 228319

Tuesday 25 September 2012 – Madrid

Michel Blanc, IRAP-CNRS, Toulouse

Concept

Europlanet RI is a full « Infrastructure network » supporting and enhancing our use of space missions, earth-based telescopes, simulation and data analysis tools, lab and field site facilities

The main objective is to provide services and tools to the community! Access to lab facilities, field sites, extreterrestrial matter samples repositories Access to all information sources via a web interface (IDIS) to evolve into a

« Virtual Planetary Observatory »

Done by a combination of 3 types of activities Networking activities (science communication activities within the lab network and

with the outside world) Trans National Access (TNA) and Service Activities (SA) Joint Research Activities (JRA): research and development activities aiming at

IMPROVING the use and scientific return of our Research infrastructures in planetary sciences 3

Key figures

4 year project

EU funding: € 6 000 000

27 consortium members 47 laboratories 231 persons 16 countries

Many more associate contributors (61 institutes) and users

A service to the European planetary science community, and beyond!

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Scientific Concept

Space and Earth-basedObservational facilities Space and Earth-basedObservational facilities

Laboratory facilities field analogues

Laboratory facilities field analogues

Comp. modelling & data analysis facilities

Comp. modelling & data analysis facilities

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Management Structure

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Project Management Committee

Users HelpDesk

Strategic Advisory Board

GeneralAssembly

User & Associates Advisory Board

Field and LaboratoryMeasurements

Planetary VO Services IDIS

Executive Team

Leaders of Activities & Domains

Observational InfrastructureNetworking

ScienceNetworking

Public Outreach Dissemination

PressOfficePressOffice

EuroplanetBoard

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Presentation of work by Activity

EC Grant agreement n° 228319

Tuesday 25 September 2012 – Madrid

Philippe Louarn, IRAP-CNRS, Toulouse

4 years of activity… from ~250 persons, in ~50 labs, funded by ~30 institutes/agencies, in ~16

countries !

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Europlanet FP7 Research Infrastructure

Service ActivitiesIntegrated and

Distributed Information Service

(IDIS)

Data archiving and analysis tools

JRA3: Modelling and data analysis tools

JRA4: towards virtual observatory in

planetary sciences

NetworkingWorkshopConference(EPSC)Outreach

Research activity (JRA1) Development for Supporting Planetary Missions. Link with amateurs

Trans National Access Pan-european access to national facilities/labs. TNA1 Planetary Field AnaloguesTNA2 Planetary Simulation Facilities TNA3 Planetary Sample Analysis

JRA2: Characterization of new field analogues

NETWORKING

1)1) More than 30 workshops/conferencesMore than 30 workshops/conferences(H.Rucker, A.M.Arri, S.Miller, M.Grande, R.Srama, K.Szego, N.krupp…)(H.Rucker, A.M.Arri, S.Miller, M.Grande, R.Srama, K.Szego, N.krupp…)

4 EPSC 4 EPSC (>4000 attendants )(>4000 attendants ) ; 4 ISSI workshops/Forum ( ; 4 ISSI workshops/Forum (and books!) , Technology/Industry and books!) , Technology/Industry workshops,workshops,

2) Ambitious new approach of Outreach in Europe 2) Ambitious new approach of Outreach in Europe (T. Fouchet, J.P.Lebreton, A.(T. Fouchet, J.P.Lebreton, A. Heward , E. Chatzichristou ))

15 national nodes, large list of experts who are able to comment on ‘planetary stories’, in the various european languages…

Several communication ‘training’ Workshops

Annual ‘outreach’ price.

3) Links with the amateur community(W. Thuillot, J.Oberst)- Meteor observing campaigns involving students and amateur astronomers,

- SPOSH camera : meteoroid impact flash observations on Moon.

Goal: provide access to a comprehensive set of laboratory facilities and field sites tailored to the needs of planetary research

o TNA1:Planetary Field Analogues to perform research for space missions under realistic planetary conditions

o TNA2Planetary Simulation Facilities providing access to laboratory facilities that simulate conditions in planetary atmospheres and surfaces

o TNA3Planetary Sample Analysis Planetary Sample Analysis to analyze meteoritic and sample returns with specific isotopic analysis

2009 -2012 TNA MORE than 80 VISITS SUPPORTED

(N.Mason, F.Gomez, G.Davies, C.Cloquet)

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TRANS NATIONAL ACCESS

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TNA1 F.Gomez , O.Roste (IKI)

SIX WELL CHARACTERIZED TERRESTRIAL NATURAL FIELD SITES

Analogues of surface of Mars, Europa, TitanAnalogues of surface of Mars, Europa, Titan Desert, permafrost, acidic environment,

hydrothermal sources Morocco, Tunisia, Svalbard, Spain,

Kamchatka, Popigai Crater in Siberia

LIFE IN EXTREME CONDITIONS Learning more about the survival strategies that life adopts in extreme environments

Ny AlesundSpitzberg

Kamchatka, RussiaIbn Battuta Centre Morocco

Rio Tinto, Spain

Laboratory studies

Emissivity Infrared emissivity spectra of mineral mixtures explored at different temperatures to compare with observations of the Martian moon, Phobos.

The results are providing new insights into the mineralogy of this moon which has been proposed as the first candidate for extra terrestrial mining !

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Highlight from TNA2

Title : Water in nominally anhydrous chondrites 4 days in Nancy Ion Probe Cameca 1280

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Highlight from TNA3

Laser ablation spot Ion probe spot

Do CK and CV chondrites have a closely related origin? and mineralogy similar => Yesbut redox conditions ≠ and fluids into CV not CK => No.

CKoxidized CV

reduced CV

Data actually in treatment, publication in preparation.

PermissionC. Martin

IDIS Service Activity is aimed at providing:

easy access to data produced in the different fields of planetary research: space missions, ground based telescopes, laboratory and field facilities, sample collections, and modelling results

tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate and interpret all types of observational, computational, and laboratory data

M.T.Capria, G. Chanteur, many groups: VO paris, CDPP Toulouse, DLR, Technical Node W.Schmitt….

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IDIS Service Activity Goals

Services are progressively implemented, and a prototype of a restricted Planetary VO

is already available.

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Highlight from Plasma Node(C. Jacquey, V.Génot, N.André, B.Cecconi)

JRA-1 have developed various planetary map products for delivery to SA-IDIS:

Topographic models from HRSC on Mars

Express, notably for the MSL landing site Maps of Saturn satellites / Cassini data Phobos shape models and maps Mercury terrain models from Mariner-10 and

MESSENGER data

Have developed various planetary and spacecraft ephemerides; have implemented client/server architecture for data access

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Surface Node/JRA1Planetary Dynamics, Geodesy, Cartography

(W. Thuillot, J.Oberst)

Lunar Orientale Basin /Lunar Orientale Basin /Scholten et al., 2012Scholten et al., 2012

Highlight from Small Bodies and Dust Node (Rosetta…)

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Comet emission lines serviceThe service allows the user, by means of a simple query interface, to visualize a table of peak wavelength, blending details, species (when identified), transition, (when identified), intensity (in arbitrary units, when measured), equivalent width (when measured) and distance of observation of the whole set of 33183 emission lines collected from four catalogs. All of these catalogs have been derived from spectra obtained with Echelle spectrography.

Emission lines groupingWithin the starting catalogs, many lines are not identified. We established a statistical method to recognize groups of unidentified lines. Every group contains 2 to 6 lines that are likely to be the same transition observed in different comets. The same work has been done for identified lines, with the difference that grouping of identified lines is precise, not statistical.

Cosmic dust catalog serviceThe NASA team at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center has produced diverse catalogs of the properties of dust grains collected in the atmosphere.

This web based interactive data service allows an easy retrieval and analysis of cosmic dust repositories. Our tool allows to search dust particles using several criteria: shape, size interval,luster, transparency or curator classification. For each particle it is possible to show the SEM(Scanning Electron Microscopy) image, the EDS (X-ray Energy-Dispersive Spectrometry) spectra and other descriptive data..

Interactive Catalogue of Planetary Models and Data Analysis Tools 30 planetary models 16 data analysis tools Search navigation

o Key words (topic)o Resource type

The Catalogue enables a user o free registration o advertising of own modelling

& data analysis facilitieso Search for needed modelling

& analysis resourceso Request of modelling/ analysis service

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European Modelling and Data Analysis Facility (M.Khodachenko, S.Miller)

http://europlanet-jra3.oeaw.ac.at

http://europlanet-jra3.oeaw.ac.at/catalogue/

We had very ambitious goals in 2009…

-> 4 years later, the contract is close to completion.

We propose an exciting workshop/conference agenda We develop an amazing set of outreach initiatives We run a very original Field analog exploration, We manage a successful TNA program with world level facilities We made huge progresses towards planetary VO with impressive

technical/scientific developments….

We are now far above fundation… The community has to learn how to use our tools and services and… improve, refine, complete

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To Conclude…

People contributing to our various boards . SAB T.Krimigis. Project. Scien. V.Manno, Business Direc. R. Tomlin, User board: H.Opgenoorth.

Christelle FEUGEADE, for her incredible energy and efficiency in the daily management

also Naoual ASSAR and Gaelle TERRIER

Michel BLANC, for his deep and essential VISION over these 8 years

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Some of us deserve special thanks …