Final Media Invitation and Details of Media Briefings
Solar System Observations with Webb; Hera/Dart/LICIACube; Innovations in robotic exploration and visualisation techniques.
The 2022 Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) will take place at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada, Spain, from 18-23 September 2022. The meeting this year will take place as a joint event with the European Astrobiology Network Association (EANA), bringing together planetary scientists and researchers working on the possibility of life beyond the Earth.
More than 1200 oral and poster presentations have been submitted and over 1000 planetary scientists from Europe and around the world have registered to attend the meeting. Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the EPSC2022 meeting. Media registration is free. Any bona fide media delegates can register by e-mailing epsc-press@europlanet-society.org.
PRESS BRIEFINGS:
To attend press briefings in-person, please make sure that you have received a TAN code waiver and registered as media for the meeting by emailing epsc-press@europlanet-society.org. To attend online, please follow the Zoom registration links below and you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the live stream.
Press Briefing on Monday, 19 September 2022
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l7De2qq1SBWBX9ETIfCQcg
The press briefing on Monday, 19 September will cover two topics. The Zoom link is the same for both.
ESA Hera Mission: Investigating binary asteroid (65803) Didymos and the DART crater
14:15 CEST / 13:15 BST / 08:15 EDT
One week ahead of the impact by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft with the asteroid Dimorphos, representatives of the European Space Agency’s Hera mission, the Italian LICIACube mission and DART will present an update for the media.
Speakers:
- Michael Küppers, Hera Project Scientist, European Space Astronomy Centre
- Andy Rivkin, DART Investigation Team Lead, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- LICIACube Team representative (TBC)
Solar System Observations with Webb
15:00 CEST / 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT
Speakers:
- Giuliano Liuzzi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Sara Faggi, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Ann-Carine Vandaele, Institut royal d’Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique
- Geronimo Villanueva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Press Briefing on Wednesday, 21 September 2022
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ubhgAGj_RqOJ17o_6ppFug
Exploring the planets: Innovations in robotic exploration and visualisation techniques.
14:00 CEST / 13:00 BST / 08:00 EDT
Speakers:
- Sebastian Walter, FU Berlin
- Patrick Bambach, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
- Gerald Eichstäd, Citizen Scientist
Any updates to the line-up of speakers will be published on this page.
Details of the scientific sessions and the presentation abstracts can be found at the official website: https://www.epsc2022.eu/
An overview of the programme can be found here:
CONTACTS
Anita Heward
EPSC2022 Press Officer
+44 7756 034243
aheward@europlanet-society.org
epsc-press@europlanet-society.org
Adriana Postiglione
EPSC2022 Press Officer
epsc-press@europlanet-society.org
FURTHER INFORMATION
About the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC)
The Europlanet Science Congress (https://www.epsc2022.eu/) formerly the European Planetary Science Congress, is the annual meeting of the Europlanet Society. With a track record of 16 years, and regularly attracting around 1000 participants, EPSC is the largest planetary science meeting in Europe. It covers the entire range of planetary sciences with an extensive mix of talks, workshops and poster sessions, as well as providing a unique space for networking and exchanges of experiences.
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About Europlanet
Since 2005, Europlanet (www.europlanet-society.org) has provided Europe’s planetary science community with a platform to exchange ideas and personnel, share research tools, data and facilities, define key science goals for the future, and engage stakeholders, policy makers and European citizens with planetary science.
The Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149 to provide access to state-of-the-art research facilities and a mechanism to coordinate Europe’s planetary science community.
The Europlanet Society promotes the advancement of European planetary science and related fields for the benefit of the community and is open to individual and organisational members. The Europlanet Society is the parent organisation of the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC).
About EANA
The European Astrobiology Network Association (http://www.eana-net.eu), joins together people interested in the origins of life and the search for extraterrestrial life in the Solar System and beyond. This interdisciplinary domain involves scientists from multiple disciplines such as chemistry, physics, biology, geology, astronomy, and human sciences.
