Poster Mathieu Persan

Here we go again! Since spring 2021, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been back on board the ISS for the Alpha mission. CNES, through its expert centre for research in microgravity, CADMOS, has prepared 12 scientific experiments for him. Trapping particles with an acoustic clamp, measuring radiation, studying brain ageing and working on tomorrow's...

You are on Mars to meet Perseverance, the rover of the Mars 2020 Mission launched by NASA in summer 2020. At its head, the SuperCam laser camera, developed by the French scientific community and CNES in collaboration with LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory), promises to capture colourful data and images. Its lasers heat rocks and vibrate molecules to...

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