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Press Release: CNES Board of Directors gives go-...
Meeting on Thursday 4 July, CNES’s Board of Directors approved France’s funding contribution to the Euclid science mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA), scheduled for...
News SciencesJuly 4, 2013 -
GOCE a seismometer in orbit around the Earth
Most people think that seismometers are ground-based instruments, but today earthquakes can also be detected by satellites.
News Observation Science and technologyMarch 11, 2013 -
High mass X-ray binaries trace the Milky Way...
Observations of the sky with high energy, in particular with the INTEGRAL spacecraft, allowed to discover numerous X binary sources of big mass in the Milky Way.
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 4, 2013 -
Rocket dust storms on Mars
One of the most exotic aspect of Mars atmosphere is the presence of microscopic grains of dust hanging in the air which play a crucial role in the climate of the planet. However,...
News Sciences Science and technologyJanuary 24, 2013 -
Seasons shift on Titan
While the seasons are a familiar feature of Earth, those on Titan are largely unknown. A team of researchers has obtained a tantalizing glimpse of a seasonal shift on Saturn’s...
News SciencesDecember 11, 2012 -
The first global maps of gravimetric anomalies
The first maps presenting the Earth's gravity anomalies on the global scene just got co-edited by the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW), the International...
News Observation Science and technologyJuly 12, 2012 -
Craters unearth proof of the water action below...
A new study of the Martian former highlands led to the discovery of many mineral outcrops which had been deteriorated by underground water in the early planet's history. The...
News Sciences Science and technologyJuly 11, 2012 -
XMM-Newton discover a new source of low energy...
Thanks to XMM-Newton, a X-ray astronomy European satellite, scientists from CNRS and CEA discovered a new source of cosmic rays which are different from cosmic rays known until...
News Sciences Science and technologyJune 29, 2012 -
Gale in an exoplanet's atmosphere
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (NASA/ESA), the astronomers observed important changes in the upper atmosphere of a remote planet. Just after a strong eruption on its host star...
News Science and technologyJune 26, 2012 -
Results of the PROCESS experiment on board EXPOSE...
The PROCESS experiment (PRebiotic Organic ChEmistry on Space Station) on board EXPOSE consisted in expose samples mainly composed of organic molecules during 18 months in 2008 and...
News Sciences Science and technologyJune 11, 2012 -
Transit of Venus in 2012 by PICARD
The 6.5-hour transit of Venus in front of the Sun took place during the night of 5 to 6 June 2012. The final part of this transit could be seen from Europe only on June 6th right...
News Sciences Science and technologyJune 6, 2012 -
Aurorae on Uranus detected by Hubble
Among all the known planetary magnetospheres, these gaps carved in the solar wind by magnetized planets (especially the Earth and giant planets), the exotic case of Uranus had...
News Science and technologyApril 13, 2012 -
2012: an exosphere discovered around Dione by...
The Cassini probe which is exploring Saturn and its moons recently discovered a thin oxygen atmosphere around the Dione moon. The result, which come adding itself to similar cases...
News Science and technologyMarch 27, 2012 -
A light in the Martian night
French scientists working on Mars Express discovered a new type of night light emissions on the planet Mars. This discovery explains how the Mars' upper atmosphere moves...
News Sciences Science and technologyMarch 26, 2012 -
Molecular building blocks of primitive life in an...
The first molecules of life naturally occur in comets: that is what the French-German works achieved by the groups of Uwe Meierhenrich and Cornelia Meinert from the Institute...
News Science and technologyMarch 12, 2012 -
Drought on western Europe
Western Europe is experiencing a significant water deficit.
News Observation Science and technologyMarch 12, 2012 -
In lab Titan's chemical evolution
Titan, the Saturn's biggest moon, is the subject of many studies because it is an active world, both geologically and chemically. The chemistry in the atmosphere and on the...
News Science and technologyMarch 12, 2012 -
2012: 50 years struding the Earth's gravity...
2012 50 years struding the Earth's gravity field Update: 03/05/2012
News Observation Science and technologyMarch 5, 2012