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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 2h

Exoplanetary and Planetary Sciences, how do these disciplines interacts? An interview to the Europlanet Early Career Medal Winner, @timlichtenberg.bsky.social on our Europlanet Magazine: www.europlanet.org/exoplanets-a...

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Angelo Pio Rossi @arosp.bsky.social · 6d

In this time of continental dismantling of #PlanetaryScience, @openplanetary.solarsystem.social still exists, so @coop.planetary-research.org. Apart from a new Diamond OA Journal, there is also solarsystem.video. Soon to include @europlanetmedia.bsky.social 2021+ Winter School content.

SolarSystem.video

A federated video streaming platform for planetary science.

solarsystem.video

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 6d

✨ #EPSCDPS2025 press release: Bringing the Digital Revolution to Direct Exoplanet Imaging with PLACID’s LCD Technology 👉 bit.ly/epscdps_LCDplacid

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 6d

✨ #EPSCDPS2025 press release: @esa.int Gaia Solves Mystery of Tumbling Asteroids and Finds a New Way to Probe Their Interiors 👉 bit.ly/EPSCDPS_GAIA...

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 13d

Do you miss #EPSC? Don't worry, we are already preparing the next ones!

✨ #EPSC2026 will be in The Hague, Netherlands from 6-11 September 2026.

✨ #EPSC2027 will be in Toulouse, France from 19-24 September 2027.

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 15d

🪐 #EPSCDPS2025 press release: A swarm of spherical rovers, blown by the wind like tumbleweeds, could enable large-scale and low-cost exploration of the martian surface bit.ly/epscdps_tumblerover

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 20d

🥇 The 2025 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Red de Estudiantes Colombianos en Astronomía Educación, a Colombian non-profit network of volunteers that aims to bring science to schools and communities across Colombia 👉 www.europlanet.org/europlanet-p...

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 24d

✨ News from #EPSCDPS2025: JWST Reveals Dark Beads and Lopsided Star Patterns in Saturn’s Atmosphere, in a new study by @northumbriauni.bsky.social: bit.ly/epscdps_jwstsaturn

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Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social · 24d

🪐 BREAKTHROUGH: Researchers have discovered mysterious dark beads in Saturn's atmosphere using the James Webb Space Telescope. Professor Tom Stallard and an international team have revealed complex structures in Saturn's sub-auroral ionosphere never seen before.
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals dark beads and lopsided star patterns in Saturn's atmosphere

A study of Saturn's atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed complex and mysterious features unseen before on any planet in our Solar System.

www.northumbria.ac.uk

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 26d

✨ #EPSCDPS2025 News: Mars’s Chilly North Polar Vortex Creates a Seasonal Ozone Layer, by Kevin Olsen et al. (@ox.ac.uk): bit.ly/epscdps_marspole

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · 26d

✨ #EPSCDPS2025 News: Planets Without Plate Tectonics and too Little Carbon Dioxide Could Mean that Technological Alien Life is Rare. New study by Manuel Scherf and Helmut Lammer from Austrian Academy of Sciences: bit.ly/epscdps_technosign

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you for joining, see you next time! ✨️

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

You did! Thank you for joining, see you next time! ✨️

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Europlanet @europlanetmedia.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Dr. Oguzcan Karagoz @okaragoz.bsky.social · Sep 12

Presented at #EPSCDPS2025 in Finland! 🚀

“The low-friction and viscous detachments drive deformation on Mars”.
Our study shows how weak detachments shape tectonic deformation in the Tharsis region, offering new insights into Martian lithosphere dynamics.
#PlanetaryScience #Mars #Geodynamics

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Dr Rok Nežič 🇸🇮🇬🇧 @roknezic.bsky.social · Sep 12

The grand finale! 😁
#pancakes #EPSCDPS2025

A lot of people crowding around pancakes (crepes) being served

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Dr. Nick Attree @nickattree.bsky.social · Sep 12

phew, almost made it to the end of #EPSCDPS2025. Not gonna lie, I think we're all flagging here towards the end 😅
Looking forward to the pancakes(!) at the farewell event and then crashing. #EPSCDPS

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Planetary Science Institute @psi.edu · Sep 12

It's the last day of #EPSCDPS2025! We hope everyone had a great time! We have one more talk today @ 3pm:

Nader Haghighipour will present "Effects of secular resonances on the dynamical evolution and orbital architecture of planetary systems in binary stars" in room Neptune.
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Dr Rok Nežič 🇸🇮🇬🇧 @roknezic.bsky.social · Sep 12

Adding to the collection of job-searching slides :D

(Again, slightly edited to remove some contact information)
#EPSCDPS2025

Photo of a conference room with the speaker at the podium on the right and a slide projected on a screen on the left. The slide caption reads: "Thank you! Kiitos!" ("Thank you" in Finnish, where the conference is taking place). On the right is a multicoloured meteor with a smiley face, on the left text reading: "Currently looking for a job!" The image has been slightly edited to remove contact information.

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · Sep 12

Cole Gregg explores whether interstellar material might come from circumstellar debris disks (it probably can!), and if so, where that material might come from and what would be the physical characteristics thereof #epscdps #epscdps2025

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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · Sep 12

John Forbes: according to a model based on stellar populations, our galaxy contains a tapestry of streams of interstellar objects (ISOs) as illustrated in this still from a video that has been shown repeatedly in this ISO session #epscdps #epscdps2025

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Angelo Pio Rossi @arosp.bsky.social · Sep 12

Not sure how many in #planetaryscience are here:

Riccardo Pozzobon tragically passed away in Alaska.

One can give a hand to his family: buonacausa.org/cause/riccar...

Tributes/info:
@europlanetmedia.bsky.social
www.europlanet.org/in-memory-of...

@esa.int
blogs.esa.int/caves/2025/0...

Per la famiglia di Riccardo - Raccolta fondi su BuonaCausa.org

Il nostro caro amico e socio Riccardo Pozzobon era un geologo planetario e ricercatore del Dipartimento di Geoscienze dell’Università di Padova. Ha perso la vita durante una missione scientifica in Alaska sul ghiacciaio Mendenhall. Era noto a livello internazionale per le sue pubblicazioni e la sua…

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · Sep 12

#EPSCDPS2025 : Interesting talks by Xuan Li (collaboration with Richard Chatterjee) on revising cosmic shoreline to incorporate molecular weight, and by Erik Meier Valdes on what has been learned so far from the Hot Rocks survey. (Most interesting is that LHS1478b has a tentative hint

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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · Sep 12

Yukun Huang derived explicit expressions for the drift and diffusion coefficients of the normalized orbital energy of gravitational scattering of planetesimals by a planet. These equations are analytically derived, universal, and eco-friendly. #EPSCDPS2025

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