Last week, from Wednesday January 24th to Friday January 26th, a meeting of the EWST (ExoMars Science Working Team) took place. The event was attended by two ERICA scientists, Jose Antonio Manrique and Marco Veneranda, as well as our colleagues from INTA. This time, the meeting was held in ESTEC, the main research and development […]

Esta semana nos hemos enterado de dos fantásticas noticias para Castilla y León en el ámbito aeroespacial, ambas de manos de la ESA, una de las cuales nos afecta directamente. Durante los días 22 y 23 de noviembre, martes y miércoles respectivamente, ha tenido lugar la reunión ministerial de la Agencia Espacial Europea, que incluía,

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oli-serp ratio plot

We evaluated the effectiveness of the ExoMars Raman laser spectrometer (RLS) to determine the degree of serpentinization of olivine-rich units on Mars. We selected terrestrial analogs of martian ultramafic rocks from the Leka Ophiolite Complex (LOC) and analyzed them with both laboratory and flight-like analytical instruments. We first studied the mineralogical composition of the samples

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