15.09.2019

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 Press Briefings

Monday 16th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)
Cheops mission update

• Michel Mayor (University of Geneva) – Exoplanets in context
• Kate Isaak (European Space Agency) – Cheops mission status
• Willy Benz (University of Bern) – Cheops – An exoplanet follow-up mission
• Ravit Helled (University of Zurich) – Cheops contribution to open questions in (exo)planetary science
• David Ehrenreich (University of Geneva) – Cheops in the context of other exoplanet missions

Tuesday 17th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)
Hayabusa2 & OSIRIS-REx

• Antonella Barucci (Observatoire de Paris) – Spectral variation on the surface of Ryugu
• Makoto Yshikawa (ISAS/JAXA) – Hayabusa2 mission results: the impact experiment and the second touchdown
• Dante Lauretta (University of Arizona) – OSIRIS-REx at Asteroid (101955) Bennu: The Site Selection Campaign
• Daniella DellaGiustina (University of Arizona) – Interpretation of colour and albedo variation on Bennu
• Michael Daly (York University, Canada) – Insights from Bennu’s global digital terrain model

Wednesday 18th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)
Future mission updates

• Patrick Michel (Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS) – Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment (AIDA) science update
• Nancy Chabot (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab) – NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission
• Michael Küppers (European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA/ESAC) – Hera mission
• Colin Wilson (University of Oxford) – EnVision mission to Venus
• Kelly Geelen (European Space Agency) – Mars Sample Return plans and current status

Thursday 19th September, 12:15-13:15 CEST (10:15-11:15 UTC / 06:15-07:15 EDT)
Akatsuki mission results, 2020 Coordinated Venus Observations and science at Venus

• Masato Nakamura (ISAS/JAXA) – Akatsuki mission update
• Takeshi Horinouchi (Hokkaido University) – Cloud-top wind observations by Akatsuki
• Takeshi Imamura (University of Tokyo) – Infrared observations at Venusian cloud tops
• Yeon Joo Lee (Technical University of Berlin) – 2020 Coordinated Venus Observation Campaign
• Valeria Mangano (INAF-IAPS) – Venus flybys of BepiColombo for the 2020 Coordinated Venus Observation Campaign
• Michael Way (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) – Possible habitability of ancient Venus and Venus-like exoplanets

Quelle: EPSC