Mese: Ottobre 2020

“Vi siete mai chiesti come vengono studiati gli altri pianeti, come ad esempio Marte?” A questa domanda risponde 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗶 – PhD Student in Planetary Science.

“Marte è in assoluto il pianeta più studiato del nostro Sistema solare e l’unico su cui abbiamo inviato robot su ruote. Possiamo studiare Marte con un lander o con un rover, ma dove lo mandiamo? Come viene scelto un sito di atterraggio? Guarda il video!” Dr. Francesco Salese – Senior Scientist IRSPS -Ud’A

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝐾𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑜 𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑜 – 𝑃ℎ𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 Did you know that Jupiter has the largest moon in the solar system? It’s name is Ganymede. It was discovered by Galileo Galiei in 1610 and together with Europa, Io and Calipso belongs to the Galilean satellites. It’s bigger than Mercury and a little smaller than Marte and if will be orbiting around the sun could be considered as a planet. It has and iron core and due to its property is the only moon in the solar system with its own magnetic field. Some missions like Pionner 10 has explored closer the satellite and the Galileo mission discovered its underground ocean and its magnetic field. The European Space Agency will launch the Juice Mission (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) in 2022, it will fly by Jupiter in 8 years and after 3 years will arrive to Ganymede. Currently, the Institute Research School of Planetary Science is working in a research that will support the Juice mission using the 3GM instrumentation for detecting its gravitational anomalies. So, we need to wait for a while.