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This instalment of the Europlanet Society Webinar series will focus on tools for our early career community. Featuring short talks from EPEC and from space career specialists Derek Polowyj (Eden Scott), Joanne Oliver (SpaceCareers.UK) and Ross Crosby (Innoforge), this session aims to provide you with practical tips and contacts to help you take your next career step.

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We invite the scientific community to participate in the VESPA 2024 open call, a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in advancing Planetary Science and Solar System data accessibility, aligned with Europlanet 2024-RI. Benefit of participating are: 

• Amplify Your Impact: Contribute to expanding the VESPA interface; up to 5 projects will be selected. 

• Guidance and Collaboration: Selected projects join a face-to-face workshop in Warsaw, Poland (April 22-26, 2024), collaborating with experts and receiving guidance. 

• Contribute to Open Science: Support the development of an interoperable system promoting transparency and accessibility in Planetary Science and Solar System data. 

Don't miss this chance to be at the forefront of research.

Submit your project proposal at VESPA 2024 Open Call. 

Ferrari et al, Front. Astron. Space Sci., 12 July 2023, Sec. Astrobiology, Volume 10 - 2023 

The Mars Multispectral Imager for Subsurface Studies (Ma_MISS) instrument is a miniaturised visible and near-infrared (VIS-NIR) spectrometer (0.5–2.3 μm) devoted to the Martian subsurface exploration and integrated into the drilling system of the ESA Rosalind Franklin rover mission. This paper reports the scientific results obtained by a campaign funded through a Europlanet Transnational Access visit in July 2022. The results confirm that the Río Tinto site is important for understanding the mineralogical and geochemical evolution of the Martian surface/subsurface, preparing for the exploitation and interpretation of scientific data from the Ma_MISS instrument during the active phase of the mission, and for defining the priorities of the astrobiological objectives on the ground. 

Registration and abstract submission are now open for the Earth and Planets Origin and Evolution Workshop which will take place in Paris May 13-17 2024.

To register and submit an abstract, please complete this form.

The European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) would like to invite you to participate in a two-day (3 hours each) online workshop on potential water resources on the Moon and Mars. 

As part of a project for the European Space Agency (ESA) and in collaboration with Air Liquide, ESRIC is undertaking a study focused on the purification of naturally occurring water on the Moon and Mars. One of the key challenges of purification of water from these potential resources is the level of uncertainty around the nature of the deposits and the impurities associated with them.   

As part of this project, we would like to bring together experts from the planetary science and ISRU communities to discuss what is currently known or expected from these water occurrences. This is of significant interest to the space resources community, and we would like to have as a clear outcome a paper that will collate all of the current knowledge to be used as a reference document.