UCL – DEPARTMENT OF SPACE AND CLIMATE PHYSICS
MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY
The Newsletter - Volume 9, Issue 2
19th October 2011
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Covers events between 1 June 2011 and 31 August 2011
Contents
General .................................................................................................................................................. - 1 Visitors .................................................................................................................................................. - 1 Mission Status and Developments ..................................................................................................... - 1 Publications – Refereed ...................................................................................................................... - 2 Publications - Non-refereed ................................................................................................................ - 4 Outreach................................................................................................................................................ - 5 Other News Items/Activities ................................................................................................................ - 6 Media Broadcasts and Features ......................................................................................................... - 6 Next Issue ............................................................................................................................................. - 6 -
Visitors
General
Jennifer Wallin of St. Peter's School, Guildford
visited the Plasma Physics group for 4 weeks on a
Nuffield Bursary. She worked with Andrew Walsh
on Cluster Observations of Flow Braking in the
Magnetotail and produced an excellent report at
the end of her placement.
We are pleased to welcome Keith Grimstone and
Adrian White (Workshop), Simon Jackson
(Systems Engineering), Dr Stefano Pasetto
(Astrophysics) as well as seven new PhD students.
They are Gemma Cauchi (Climate Extremes), Matt
Hills (Cryogenics), Jason Hunt (Astrophysics),
Jamie Jasinski (Planetary Science), Kirthika
Mohan Narasimhan (Plasma Physics), Ailsa Prise
(Solar Physics) Tom Pollard (with Louise Harra
and Kevin Fong at UCLH).
Summer students Christopher Suberlak, Grace
Cox and Hugh Osborn worked in the Planetary
Science group.
Mission Status and Developments
The 2011 MSSL Croquet Tournament was fiercely
fought and much enjoyed. Congratulations to
Climates Extremes (Mark Saunders, Adam Lea
and Alan Muir) for winning the tournament. They
beat the Technology Management Group (Michael
Emes, Ady James, Phil WIlliams and Matt
Wyndham) 14-4 in just under an hour.
Cassini - Cassini is in its extended („solstice‟)
mission. CAPS analysis was presented in many
papers and at meetings (see lists).
Cluster – MSSL celebrated 10 years of the Cluster
mission on 22 June. The event was attended by
Dr. Matt Taylor (Cluster project scientist, ESA) who
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gave a presentation.
Arridge, C.S., N. Achilleos, P. Guio, Electric field
variability and classifications of Titan’s
magnetoplasma environment, AnGeo
Communicates, 29, 1253-1258,
doi:10.5194/angeo-29-1253-2011, published 19
July 2011. http://www.anngeophys.net/29/1253/2011/angeo-29-12532011.html. This paper shows that the electric
field imposed on Saturn's moon Titan from
Saturn's magnetosphere can be highly variable.
We demonstrate that this variability is not
captured by classifications of Titan's plasma
environment.
Coates, A.J., Pickup ion observations at solar
system bodies, Advances in Geosciences, vol
25 (Planetary Sciences), p11-28, World
Scientific, Singapore, July 2011.
Coates, A.J., S.M.E. Tsang, A. Wellbrock, R.A.
Frahm, J.D. Winningham, S. Barabash, R.
Lundin, D.T. Young and F.J. Crary, Ionospheric
photoelectrons: comparing Venus, Earth, Mars
and Titan, Planet. Space Sci. 59 (2011), 10191027, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2010.07.016, Aug 2011.
Dunlop, M.W., Q.-H. Zhang, Y.V. Bogdanova, M.
Lockwood, Z. Pu, H. Hasegawa, J. Wang, M. G.
G. T. Taylor, J. Berchem, B. Lavraud, J.
Eastwood, M. Volwerk, C. Shen, J.-K. Shi, D.
Constantinescu, H. Frey, A. N. Fazakerley, D.
Sibeck, P. Escoubet, J. A. Wild, and Z.-X. Liu,
Extended magnetic reconnection across the
dayside magnetopause, Physical Review
Letters, v. 107, doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.025004, 2011.
Gowen, R.A., A. Smith, A.D. Fortes,S. Barber, P.
Brown, P. Church, G. Collinson, A. J. Coates,
G. Collins, I. A. Crawford, V. Dehant, J. ChelaFlores, A. D. Griffiths, P.M. Grindrod, L.I.
Gurvits, A. Hagermann, H. Hussmann, R.
Jaumann, A.P. Jones, K.H. Joy, O. Karatekin,
K. Miljkovic, E. Palomba, W.T. Pike, O. PrietoBallesteros, F. Raulin, M. A. Sephton, S.
Sheridan, M. Sims, M. C. Storrie-Lombardi, R.
Ambrosi, J. Fielding, G. Fraser, Y. Gao, G. H.
Jones, G. Kargl, W.J.Karl,A. Macagnano, A.
Mukherjee, J.P. Muller, A. Phipps, D. Pullan, L.
Richter, F. Sohl, J. Snape, J. Sykes, N. Wells,
Micro-Penetrators for In Situ Sub-Surface
Investigations of Europa, Adv Space Res., 48,
issue 4, 725-742, Aug 2011.
Masters, A., A.P. Walsh, A.N. Fazakerley, A.J.
Coates, M.K. Dougherty, Saturn‟s low-latitude
boundary layer 2: Electron structure, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, CiteID A06211, Jun 2011.
Masters, A., D. G. Mitchell, A. J. Coates, M. K.
Dougherty, Saturn‟s low-latitude boundary layer
1: Properties and variability, J. Geophys. Res,
116, CiteID A06210, Jun 2011.
Cluster continues to investigate the auroral
acceleration regions. Andrew Fazakerley has been
helping to plan burst mode operations for the highaltitude AAR campaigns.
EJSM-Juice – Several SST meetings and telecons
during the summer. The mission „yellow book‟ will
be written by November, with downselect in
February 2012.
ESR-2 – retired on 6 July after a fantastic 16 years
of operational service. Having far exceeded its
original design lifespan of 3 years, the ERS-2 has
provided a valuable link allowing cross-calibration
of missions from ERS-1 through to the CryoSat
era. See:
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM3IP6TLPG_index_0.
html
ExoMars – PanCam activity continuing, including
work on DC-DC converter. Andrew Coates
presented at AOGS, CEL was involved in several
outreach activities.
NIRSpec CLS Update - The NIRSpec CLS,
delivered to Germany last year, is scheduled to be
used for the FM NIRSpec calibration between
October and December this year.
Solar Orbiter - Chris Owen attended the kick-off
meeting for the Solar Orbiter spacecraft System
Requirements Review on 7 June. Review activities
continued for ~7 weeks, and the final presentation
was attended by Chris Brockley-Blatt, on behalf of
the SWA team, on July 26. In addition, there was
a full SWA team meeting held in a convent in Citta'
Della Pieve, Italy, on 7/8 July. A mini-Team
meeting was also held at MSSL on 30 August, in
preparation for a Technical Interface Meeting
between the SWA Team, ESA and Astrium UK,
which was also held at MSSL the following day.
Otherwise the SWA team are fully engaged in
progressing the design and development of the
SWA suite in general, and the EAS sensor in
particular, in preparation of the instrument PDR at
the end of the year.
Venus Express and Mars Express – Vex and
MEx are in extended missions. Andrew Coates
attended the ASPERA meeting in Kiruna, 6-8 June.
Publications – Refereed
Published
Arridge, C.S., Large-scale structure in the
magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, in The
Dynamic Magnetosphere, IAGA Special Sopron
Book Series, Volume 3, ed. W. Lui and M.
Fujimoto, ISBN 978-94-007-0500-5, SpringerVerlag, published 7 July 2011.
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Michael, M., S.N. Tripathi, P. Arya, A. Coates, A.
Wellbrock, and D.T. Young, High-Altitude
Charged Particles in the atmosphere of Titan,
Planet Space Sci., 59, 880–885, Jul 2011.
Volwerk, M., J. Berchem, Y.V. Bogdanova, O.D.
Constantinescu, M.W. Dunlop, J.P. Eastwood,
P. Escoubet, A.N. Fazakerley, H. Frey, H.
Hasegawa, B. Lavraud, E.V. Panov, C. Shen,
J.K. Shi, M.G.G.T. Taylor, J. Wang, J.A. Wild,
Q.H. Zhang, O. Amm, and J.M. Weygand,
Interplanetary magnetic field rotations followed
from L1 to the ground: the response of the
Earth's magnetosphere as seen by multispacecraft and ground-based observations,
Annales Geophysicae, v.29, p.1549-1569,
2011.
Wang, W., Boudreault, S., Goldman, B., Henning,
Th., Caballero, J. A. and Bailer-Jones, C. A. L.
The substellar mass function in the central
region of the open cluster Praesepe from deep
LBT observations, A&A, 531, 164, 2011,
Wei, H.Y., C. T. Russell, M. K. Dougherty, Y. J.
Ma, K. C. Hansen, H. J. McAndrews, A.
Wellbrock, A. J. Coates, M. F. Thomsen, D. T.
Young, Unusually strong magnetic fields in
Titan‟s ionosphere: T42 case study, Advances
in Space Research, 48, 314-322, Jul 2011.
of the planet Uranus, which was proposed to
ESA's M-class mission call in 2010.
Arridge, C.S., N. André, K.K. Khurana, C.T.
Russell, S.W.H. Cowley, G. Provan, D.J.
Andrews, C.M. Jackman, A.J. Coates, E.C.
Sittler, M.K. Dougherty, D.T. Young, Periodic
motion of Saturn‟s nightside plasma sheet, J.
Geophys. Res., in press, Aug 2011.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JA016827. This
paper presents a model for vertical flapping of
Saturn's giant plasma sheet. This allows us to
connect the global periodic motions of Saturn's
magnetosphere with periodic pulses of radio
emissions from Saturn's auroral regions.
Branduardi-Raymont, G., S.F. Sembay, J.P.
Eastwood, D.G. Sibeck, T.A. Abbey, P. Brown,
J.A. Carter, C.M. Carr, C. Forsyth, D. Kataria,
S. Kemble, S.E. Milan, C.J. Owen, L. Peacocke,
A.M. Read, A.J. Coates, M.R. Collier, S.W.H.
Cowley, A.N. Fazakerley, G.W. Fraser, G.H.
Jones, R. Lallement, M. Lester, F.S. Porter,
T.K. Yeoman, AXIOM: Advanced X-ray Imaging
Of the Magnetosphere, Experimental
Astronomy, DOI 10.1007/s10686-011-9239-0.
Aug 2011.
Coates, A.J., Ion Pickup and Acceleration:
Measurements From Planetary Missions, AIP
proceedings volume „Physics of the
heliosphere: a 10-year retrospective‟, 10th
Annual Astrophysics Conference, in press, Sep
2011.
Coates, A.J., J.-E. Wahlund, K. Ågren, N. Edberg,
J. Cui, A. Wellbrock and K. Szego, Recent
results from Titan‟s ionosphere, Space Science
Reviews, in press, Aug 2011.
Dunlop, M.W., Q. -H. Zhang, Y. V. Bogdanova, K.H. Trattner, Z. Pu, H. Hasegawa, J. Berchem, J.
Wang, M. G. G. T. Taylor, M. Volverk, B.
Lavraud, C. Shen, J.-K. Shi, D. Constantinescu,
A. N. Fazakerley, H. Frey, D. Sibeck, P.
Escoubet, J. Eastwood, J Wild, Extended
reconnection structure across wide local time,
Annales Geophysicae, in press, 2011.
Ma, Y.J., C.T. Russell, A. F. Nagy, G. Toth, M. K.
Dougherty, A. Wellbrock, A. J. Coates, P.
Garnier, J-E. Wahlund, T. E. Cravens, M. S.
Richard, F. J. Crary, The Importance of Thermal
Electron Heating in Titan's Ionosphere Comparison with Cassini T34 Flyby, J.
Geophys. Res., in press, Jul 2011.
Masters, A., S.J. Schwartz, E.M. Henley, M.F.
Thomsen, B. Zieger, A.J. Coates, N. Achilleos,
J. Mitchell, K.C. Hansen and M.K. Dougherty,
Electron heating at Saturn‟s bow shock, J.
Geophys. Res., in press, Aug 2011.
Shen, C., M. Dunlop, Y. Ma, Z. Chen, G. Yan, Z.
Liu, Y. Bogdanova, D. G. Sibeck, C. Carr, Q.-H.
Zhang, and E. Lucek, The magnetic
In press
Arridge, C.S., C.B. Agnor, N. André, K.H. Baines,
L.N. Fletcher, D. Gautier, M.D. Hofstadter, G.H.
Jones, L. Lamy, Y. Langevin, O. Mousis, N.
Nettelmann, C.T. Russell, T. Stallard, M.
Tiscareno, G. Tobie, A. Bacon, C. Chaloner, M.
Guest, S. Kemble, L. Peacocke, N. Achilleos, T.
Andert, D. Banfield, S. Barabash, M.
Barthelemy, C. Bertucci, B. Cecconi, S.
Chakrabarti, A. Cheng, U. Christensen, A.
Christou, A. Coates, G. Collinson, J. Cooper, R.
Courtin, M.K. Dougherty, R.W. Ebert, M.
Entradas, J. Fortney, M. Hedman, R. Helled, P.
Henri, S. Hess, R. Holme, O. Karatekin, N.
Krupp, J. Leisner, J. Martin-Torres, A. Masters,
H.Melin, S. Miller, I. Müller-Wodarg, B.
Noyelles, C. Paranicas, I. de Pater, M. Pätzold,
E. Quémerais, E. Roussos, A.M. Rymer, A.
Sanchez, J. Saur, K. Sayanagi, P. Schenk, G.
Schubert, N. Sergis, F. Sohl, E.C. Sittler, N.A.
Teanby, S. Tellmann, E. Turtle, S. Vinatier, J.E. Wahlund, P. Zarka, Uranus Pathfinder:
Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Ice Giant
Planets, Experimental Astronomy, in press, doi:
10.1007/s10686-011-9251-4, Aug 2011.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/67471t823t
067v63/. This paper describes the Uranus
Pathfinder mission concept, for the first orbiter
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configuration of the high-latitude cusp and
dayside magnetopause under strong magnetic
shears, J. Geophys. Res.,
doi:10.1029/2011JA016501, in press, 2011.
Smith, A., I A Crawford, R.A. Gowen, R Ambrosi,
M Anand, B Banerdt, N Bannister, N Bowles, C
Braithwaite, P Brown, J Chela-Flores, T
Cholinser, P Church, A J Coates, T Colaprete,
G Collins, G Collinson, T Cook, R Elphic, G
Fraser, Y Gao, E Gibson, T Glotch, M Grande,
A Griffiths, J Grygorczuk, M Gudipati, A
Hagermann, J Heldmann, L L Hood, A P Jones,
K Joy, O B Khavroshkin, G Klingelhoefer, M
Knapmeyer, G Kramer, D Lawrence, W
Marczewski, S McKenna-Lawlor, K Miljkovic, S
Narendranath, E Palomba, A Phipps, W T Pike,
D Pullan, J Rask, D T Richard, K Seweryn, S
Sheridan, M Sims, M Sweeting, T Swindle, D
Talboys, Lunar Net - A proposal in response to
an ESA M3 call in 2010 for a medium sized
mission, Experimental Astronomy, in press, Aug
2011.
Valori, G., Green, L.M., Démoulin, P., Vargas
Dominguez, S., van Driel-Gesztelyi, L., Wallace,
A., Baker, D., Fuhrmann, M., 2011, in press,
Solar Physics.
Jason Rawlings gave a talk about the dust
properties in the hosts of powerful radio loud
Active Galactic Nuclei at the “From Dust to
Galaxies” conference on 29/06 at the Institut
d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP).
EUROPLANET
NA1-NA2
workshop
on
Europa/Ganymede
in-situ
science/
Jovian
Magnetosphere science at FMI, Helsinki, Finland,
31 May-2 June. Andrew Coates presented an
invited talk - Coates, A.J., G.H. Jones, C.S.Arridge,
A. Wellbrock, G.R. Lewis, D.T. Young, F.J. Crary,
J.H. Waite Jr., R.E. Johnson, T.A. Cassidy, T.W.
Hill, Electrons at Saturn‟s moons: implications for
Ganymede and Europa.
Titan Science Meeting, Abbaye de St Jacut de la
Mer, France, June 20-23.
Andrew Coates presented an invited talk Coates, A.J., A. Wellbrock, F.J.Crary,
D.T.Young, M.F.Thomsen, K.Szego, Z.Bebesi ,
C.S.Arridge , G.H.Jones and the CAPS team,
CAPS results from recent Titan encounters;
Geraint H. Jones, Andrew J. Coates, Anne
Wellbrock, The estimation of negative ion flow
directions from CAPS--‐ELS data;
Galand, Marina, Andrew Coates, Tom Cravens
and Jan--‐Erik Wahlund.
Publications - Non-refereed
Published
Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets, Boston
University, July 11-15. Invited talks by Geraint
Jones and Chris Arridge, presentations by
Andrew Coates and Sheila Kanani, and group
involvement in several other presentations.
Wang, W., Boudreault, S., Caballero, J., BailerJones, C. A. L., Goldman, B. and Henning, Th.,
The stellar and substellar mass function in
central region of the old open cluster Praesepe
from deep LBT observations, 2001, Research,
Science and Technology of Brown Dwarfs and
Exoplanets: Proceedings of an International
Conference held in Shangai on Occasion of a
Total Eclipse of the Sun, Shangai, China,
Edited by E.L. Martin; J. Ge; W. Lin; EPJ Web
of Conferences, Volume 16, id.06011
Wellbrock, A., Coates, A. J., Jones, G. H.,
Arridge, C. S., Lewis, G. R., Young, D.T.,
Waite, J. H., Crary, F. J., Sittler, E. C., Density
trends of negative ions at Titan;
Hill, T., Baragiola, R., Coates, A., Crary, F.,
Horanyi, M., Johnson, R., Jones, G., Lewis, G.,
Mitchell, D., Thomsen, M., Tokar, R., Wahlund,
J., Wilson, R., Young, D., Charged nanograins
in the Enceladus plume;
Coates, A., Jones, G., Arridge, C., Wellbrock,
A., Lewis, G., Young, D., Crary, F., Waite, H.,
Johnson, B., Hill, T., Electrons at Saturn's
moons: selected CAPS-ELS results;
Schippers, P., André, N., Lewis, G. R., Coates,
A. J., Gurnett, D. A., Persoon, A. M., Arridge,
C., Identification of field-aligned electric current
systems in Saturn's inner magnetosphere;
Edberg, N., Ågren, K., Wahlund, J., Morooka,
M., Andrews, D., Cowley, S., Wellbrock, A.,
Coates, A., Bertucci, C., Dougherty, M.,
Structured Ionospheric Escape at Titan:
RPWS/LP, MAG and ELS Measurements;
Invited Talks and Conferences
Robert Bedington gave a talk on the PoleCATS
student sounding rocket instrument proposal at
the UK Space Conference at Warwick
University, 5 July.
Roger Duthie gave a talk entitled “Live long
and Prospero” at the UKSEDS conference in
July. The talk covered the history of the
Prospero mission and the project to re-contact
the spacecraft for its 40th anniversary.
Lucie Green was an invited speaker at the
conference "The Sun: from Quiet to Active",
Lebedev Institute of Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow.
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The PanCam Instrument for the ExoMars 2018
Rover: Science Objectives and Instrument
Characteristics;
Coates, A.J., Surprises in Saturn‟s
magnetosphere.
Ågren, K., Andrews, D. J., Coates, A. J.,
Cowley, S. W., Dougherty, M. K., Edberg, N.
J., Modolo, R., Provan, G., Wahlund, J.,
Wellbrock, A., Currents and Associated
Electric Fields in Titan's Ionosphere;
Jones, G. H., Roussos, E., Coates, A. J.,
Crary, F., Surface charging of Saturn's moon
Rhea;
Nordheim, T., Jones, G. H., Coates, A. J.,
Leisner, J. S., Kurth, W. S., Khurana, K. K.,
Crary, F. J., Electron signatures at Hyperion;
Kanani, S. J., Jones, G. H., Lewis, G. R.,
Fazakerley, A. N., Arridge, C. S., Thomsen, M.
F., Coates, A. J., Crary, F. J., A Survey of
Atypical Injection Events in Saturn's Inner
Magnetosphere;
Arridge, C., Coates, A., Crary, F., Dougherty,
M., Forsyth, C., Jackman, C., Krimigis, T.,
Krupp, N., Lamy, L., Roussos, E., Sergis, N.,
Slavin, J., Walsh, A., Active Current Sheets in
Saturn's Outer Magnetosphere;
Arridge, C., Achilleos, N., Badman, S., Bunce,
E., Schippers, P., Talboys, D., Coates, A.,
Dougherty, M., Plasma Populations in Saturn's
High Latitude Magnetosphere and their
Mapping to the Ionosphere;
Chris Arridge gave an invited topical talk
"Observations of plasma sheet structure and
dynamics" ;
Provan, G., Andrews, D. J., Coates, A. J.,
Cowley, S. W., Cox, G., Doughety, M. K.,
Jackman, C. M., Dual periodicities in 'planetary
period' magnetic field oscillations in Saturn's
tail;
Badman, S. V., N. Achilleos, C.S. Arridge, K.H.
Baines, R.H. Brown, E.J. Bunce, A.J. Coates ,
S.W.H. Cowley, M.K. Dougherty, M. Fujimoto,
G. Hospodarsky, S. Kasahara, T. Kimura, H.
Melin, D.G. Mitchell, T. Stallard, and C. Tao,
Cassini observations of ion and electron
beams and their relationship to infrared aurora.
Outreach
Chris Arridge:
gave a special show in the Peter Harrison
Planetarium at the Royal Observatory
Greenwich called "Strangers and Giants"
in their Summer Science in the
Planetarium series.
contributed to the development and
delivery of the Cluster: Aurora Explorer
stand at the Royal Society Summer
Exhibition.
visited Tiffin School, Kingston as a CREST
assessor for year 12 CREST Silver
projects.
Andrew Coates:
plenary talk for London International Youth
Science Forum, on „Oceans on Other
Worlds‟, 1 August.
Lucie Green:
talk on the 'Plasma Universe' at
Cheltenham Science Festival;
talk to schools and school teachers at the
UK space conference;
manned the stand 'Aurora Explorer' at the
Royal Society's summer exhibition (exhibit
led by the plasma group);
St. Theresa's school visit to MSSL to learn
about the solar system.
Members of the Space Plasma Physics, Solar and
Planetary groups organized an exhibit for the
Royal Society Summer Exhibition entitled “Cluster:
Aurora Explorer”. This exhibit showcased the new
science from the Cluster mission, in particular its
recent exploration of auroral acceleration
processes. Over 13000 people visited the exhibit,
with approximately half speaking to one of the
“Aurora Explorers.” Andrew Fazakerley led the
team that included members from Imperial College,
University of Leicester, Lancaster University, ESA
and RAL.
International Space Plasma Symposium, Tainan,
Taiwan, 14-19 August. Andrew Coates and Adam
Masters attended and Andrew also attended ISPS,
Tainan (both Taiwan), 8-16 August 2011. Both
gave invited talks at the meetings attended. Adam
presented an invited talk on behalf of Chris Arridge
who did not attend.
Coates, A.J., Electrons at unmagnetized
objects;
Masters, A., Dynamics of Saturn‟s
magnetospheric boundaries;
Arridge, C.S., The magnetosphere of Uranus;
Coates, A.J., A.D. Griffiths, C.E. Leff, C.R.
Cousins, R. Jaumann, N. Schmitz, J.-L. Josset,
G. Paar, D.P. Barnes and the PanCam team,
We would like to thank all the members of the lab
who supported this event, including members of
the mechanical drawing office, mechanical
engineering, and administration groups who helped
to make this event such as success. We also thank
the participating universities, STFC and the RAS
for their financial support.
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Other News Items/Activities
Chaun Li left MSSL at the end of August to return
to China. We wish him all the best in his future
endeavours.
MSSL hosted a workshop to develop the
PoleCATS proposal for the REXUS 13/14 student
sounding rocket flight programme - an experiment
to test a miniaturised plasma analyser head with a
CCD detector. The workshop was organised by
Arrow Lee and included talks by Andrew Walsh,
Jason Tandy and Dhiren Kataria. 14-16 June.
Media Broadcasts and Features
Andrew Coates:
Times on space station in Isle of Man, 25 June;
BBC News on space exploration and last shuttle, 5
July; BBC News Channel, 8 July, on space
exploration and last shuttle; BBC radio
Sussex/Surrey, 8 July, on space exploration and
last shuttle; Times on Mars possible surface water,
used 5 August; BBC World, World News Today, on
Juno launch to Jupiter, 5 August.
Lucie Green:
21st Floor podcast interview on solar physics; BBC
online audio slideshow on the plasma universe and
our Sun; BBC Newsnight comment on solar
activity; Slooh online discussion and interview
related to the lunar eclipse and solar system
research; BBC 23 degrees blog post on recent
results in solar physics; BBC Newsround interview
on recent solar activity.
Next Issue
The next issue of The Newsletter (Volume 9, Issue
3) will be published in December 2011. This will
cover activities from 1 September 2011 to 31
November 2011.
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