N° 54–2005: ESA ‘Huygens and Mars Express’ science highlights - call to press
21 November 2005
This has been a triumphant year for science at the European Space Agency.
Almost one year has passed since ESA’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Today, a set of new wide-ranging results from the probe’s two-and-a-half hour descent and landing, part of the extraordinary NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons, is ready for release.
At the same time, ESA’s Mars Express mission is continuing its investigations of Mars, painting a new picture of the 'red planet'. This includes the first ever probing below the surface of Mars, new geological clues with implications for the climate, newly-discovered surface and atmospheric features and, above all, traces of the presence of water on this world.
These and other exciting findings from just one year of observations and data analysis - in the context of ESA’s overall scientific achievements - will be the focus of a press conference to be held at ESA Headquarters in Paris at 16:00 on 30 November 2005.
Media interested in attending are invited to complete the following registration form.
Press conference programme
Space Science Highlights 2005
From Huygens to Mars Express
30 November 2005, 16:00 hrs
Room 137, European Space Agency Headquarters
8-10 Rue Mario-Nikis,
F-75738 Paris Cedex, France
15:30 - Registration
16:00 - A Year of European Space Science Successes
Prof. David Southwood, ESA Director of Science Programme
16:10 - Highlights of the Huygens Mission Results
Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Project Scientist
16:15 - Robin Duttaroy, Co-Investigator, Doppler Wind Experiment, University of Bonn, Germany
16:20 - Marcello Fulchignoni , Principal Investigator, Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument, Université de Paris 7, France
16:25 - John Zarnecki, Principal Investigator, Surface Science Package, Open University, UK
16:30 - François Raulin, Co-Investigator, Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer, Université de Paris 12 – Créteil, France
16:35 - Guy Israel, Principal Investigator, Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser, Service d'Aéronomie/CNRS, France
16:40 - Bruno Bezard, Co-Investigator, Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris, France
16:45 - Jonathan Lunine, Interdisciplinary Scientist, Titan surface-atmosphere interactions, LPL/U, Arizona (USA) and INAF/IFSI, Rome (Italy)
16:55 - Questions and AnswersV 17:05 - Coffee break
17:10 - Mars Express: results in the overall context of Martian science, Agustin Chicarro, ESA Mars Express Project Scientist
17:15 - Giovanni Picardi, MARSIS Radar Principal Investigator, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Jeffrey Plaut, MARSIS Co-Principal Investigator, NASA/JPL, USA
17:25 - Martin Pätzold, Mars Radio Science Experiment, Principal Investigator, Universität Koln, Cologne, Germany
17:30 - Jean-Pierre Bibring, OMEGA Principal Investigator, Institut d’Astrophysique spatiale, Orsay, France
17:40 - Gerhard Neukum, HRSC Camera Principal Investigator, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
17:45 - Questions and Answers
17:55 - Interview opportunities
Press conference
Space Science Highlights 2005
From Huygens to Mars Express
30 November 2005, 16:00 hrs
Room 137, European Space Agency Headquarters
8-10 Rue Mario-Nikis,
F-75738 Paris Cedex, France
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