Exomars Atmospheric Science and Missions Workshop 2017

The “EXOMARS Atmospheric Science and Missions” Workshop will serve as a forum to have general discussions on the Martian atmospheric science with the focus on the assessment of the results and instrumentation development cycle of the Exomars 2016 mission. That will lead to presentations and discussions of the atmospheric investigation plans and strategies for the ESA ExoMars-2020 mission in particular and for forthcoming Mars missions in general. The workshop will give overviews of the Exomars atmospheric investigations through invited talks by Exomars scientists. The Exomars atmospheric results and planned investigations will be covered by individual scientific presentations. The workshop will engage early career scientists, inclusiveness states and scientific and technological cooperation in the European planetary science community.

The Workshop will provide a forum for discussion and debate on the outstanding scientific topics of the Martian atmosphere, and on how to integrate and network the scientific teams with providers of instruments and technical systems. Thus the workshop will also contribute to international cooperation in the field of Martian atmospheric science and technology.

Workshop Agenda

Monday 27th of March

Workshop Day 1

9:30

Gathering to the Conference Room

Opening statement

UCM

L. Vázquez

Workshop LOC statement

FMI

A.-M. Harri

Session 1

9:45

Relevance of Current and Future Mars Missions to Mars Atmospheric Science [PDF]

SWRI

S. Rafkin

10:45

Micro-ARES on the ExoMars EDM: a promise and a demise [PDF] 

Latmos

G. Deprez

Session 2

16:30

Curiosity rover humidity measurements – First two Mars years of the mission [PDF]

FMI

A.-M. Harri

16:50

Calibration of Relative Humidity Devices in Low-pressure, Low-temperature CO2 Environment [PDF]

FMI

M. Genzer

17:10

Meteorological instruments developed in Russia [PDF]

IKI

A. Lipatov

17:40

AMELIA: the ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Science [PDF]

University of Padova

F. Ferri

18:10

Wrap-up of the Day 1

FMI

A.-M. Harri

18:15

End of the day

19:30

Social Dinner

Lappish Hut Feast, Hotel Tunturi

Tuesday 28th of March

Workshop Day 2

9:30

Gathering to the Conference Room

Session 3

9:45

How windy is Mars? [PDF]

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

R. Lorenz

10:15

Properties of Martian winds as determined from trajectory modelling of jettisoned spacecraft hardware [PDF]

FMI

M. Paton

10:45

The MARs Boundary Layer Lidar experiment: Winds at last on Mars! [PDF]

Latmos

G. Deprez

11:15

INTA's family of compact Sun Irradiance Sensors for the Martian surface [PDF]

INTA

I. Arruego

Session 4

16:30

Monitoring the atmospheric dust on Mars: the MicroMED sensor [PDF]

INAF

F. Esposito

16:50

MicroMED: the Dust Particle Analyser of the ExoMars 2020 Dust Suite [PDF]

INAF

C. Molfese

17:10

MicroMED's CEB (Central Electronics Board) [PDF]

INTA

A. Martin-Ortega

17:30

A reliable and lightweight dust sensors for Mars missions based on spectral and angular resolution of local IR scattering. METEO EXOMARS'20 Dust Sensor, characteristics and performances [PDF]

UCM

F. Cortés

18:00

Wrap-up of the Day 2

FMI

A.-M. Harri

18:15

End of the day

Wednesday 29th of March

Workshop Day 3

9:30

Gathering to the Conference Room

Session 5

9:45

Mars MetNet Lander – Martian atmospheric observational post network [PDF]

FMI

A.-M. Harri

10:15

New column boundary layer model integrations for the Viking landers [PDF]

UHEL

H. Savijärvi

10:45

Space weather on Mars [PDF]

Wigner

M. Dosa

11:15

Atmospheric Martian Data Analysis and Simulations [PDF]

UCM

L. Vázquez

Session 6

16:30

Poster session1

17:30

Wrap-up of the Workshop

L. Vazquez and A.-M. Harri

18:15

End of the day

Thursday 30th of March

Departure Day

10:00

Departure from the Hotel

The first flights from Ivalo Airport departure 13:05

 

1) Posters on display during the whole workshop. In case there are more oral presentations, they will take place on the beginning of the Session 6.

Venue