Beatriz Sánchez-Cano

✨✨Paper alert ✨✨ to start the weekend with some reading! This time an invited review of Mars’ plasma system at Oxford Encyclopedia. Good weekend!

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🐱 Our newest student! 🐱

Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻

A new student has joined my Space Environment class today at @physicsuol.bsky.social Even sat in a chair for the full hour! It seems students also enjoyed this new way of teaching!

Today I gave a seminar on my latest research work at Imperial College London, and was really amaze by these spectacular views of London! 😍✨✨

It is time for our session!! Do not miss the most ionized session at #EPSC2025!!!

Do you want to know more about M-MATISSE? The team is at the #EPSC2025 conference and we will present different aspects of the mission, starting this afternoon with three consecutive talks, and a open session on Wednesday for all
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Here we go, final lecture of the week, this time at @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Space Physics STFC summer course. This time talking about our great Solar System! ✨✨

New day new adventure! Today I’d been at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social talking about Mars and M-MATISSE at the STFC Astronomy Summer School. I had the pleasure to discuss science with a very bright cohort of new UK students! Wishing them all the best in their careers! ✨✨

Today presenting the cruise science highlights of @BepiColombo at the @IAGA__AIGA meeting in Lisbon!
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For those at the IAGA-IASPEI meeting in Lisbon this week, I’ll be presenting an overview of the cruise of BepiColombo at 3pm. Pass and say hello! 🛰✨

✨✨I’m hiring!!✨✨

If you are or know of a PostDoc willing to work with me and the planetary group at @physicsuol.bsky.social on how Mars’ magnetotail connects with its ionosphere and auroral activity, have a look below at the comments!

Deadline 17 Aug 2025

Research Associate (Mars) in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team View details and apply for this Research Associate (Mars) vacancy in Leicester. The University of Leicester is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to join the School of Physics and Astronomy. Thi...

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✨✨I’m hiring!!✨✨

If you are or know of a PostDoc willing to work with me and the planetary group at @physicsuol.bsky.social on how Mars’ magnetotail connects with its ionosphere and auroral activity, have a look below at the comments!

Deadline 17 Aug 2025

BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics - Earth, Planets and Space BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, was launched in October 2018 and is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in November 2026 after an 8-year cruise. Like other planetary missions, its scien...

Although the cruise of @science.esa.int BepiColombo is quite long, we are not bored and the mission is actually contributing to Heliophysics, as you can see in this paper we’ve just published! We are all looking forward arriving to Mercury soon!
earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Dangerous Radiation Awaits Astronauts On Mars – New Mission Could Work Out Just How Much The proposed European mission aims to get a clear understanding of the Martian atmosphere.

How the Martian atmosphere behaves and responds is not fully understood -- that’s why a team is proposing the M-MATISSE mission to find out. 🔭

www.iflscience.com/dangerous-ra...

10 years of this lovely picture 😍

We had a really interesting session at #NAM2025 on space instrumentation, and had the great pleasure to present also the payload of M-MATISSE, including a great coverage from the RAS!

The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what ch...

M-MATISSE, which would involve two robot orbiters, could use UK instrumentation to revolutionise our understanding of space weather on Mars, according to researcher @bscredrojo.bsky.social, of the @physicsuol.bsky.social.

Learn more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there... 👩‍🚀🚀

So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help.

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The NAM public engagement lunch by the RAS.

The panel discussion on the future of UK astronomical instrumentation.

We've just had plenary talks from Prof Leigh Fletcher, of the University of Leicester, on JWST's insights on the giant planets in our solar system and Prof Steven Longmore, of Liverpool John Moores University, exploring the environmental dependence of star and planet formation over cosmic time.

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Many congratulations to the new Doctor, Dr Marina Sanchez-Bayton who has defended today her PhD work at @unicomplutense with highly success! I’m very proud of her, my first PhD student! 🥂✨✨✨

This week at @esa.int in the sunny ESAC at the Planetary Science Archive User Group meeting. Tons of planetary data waiting to be used!

Updates can be followed here: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/psa-...

This week we have been busy at @SpaceParkLeic! Not only we hosted the Mars Express Science Working Team, but also the Progress Meeting and System Engineering Working Group of M-MATISSE! Here part of the team enjoying a well deserved curry 😁😜✨🛰🛰✨

We are hosting this week the @esascience Mars Express 56 Science Working Team at @SpaceParkLeic , coinciding with the 22 anniversary of Mars Express in space! 🥂✨ the mission is more active than ever with tons of new scientific results!

My favorite sentence when discussing M-MATISSE stuff is that “we are all in the same boat”, and this time was literal! Conference cruise dinner on the Thames ✨🥂🛰🛰🥂✨

M-MATISSE workshop has concluded today, and what a week! full of discussions to solidify the science of the mission and with a community very well engaged! ✨ I will for sure always remember this fantastic week ✨🛰🛰✨ Here a week in numbers! 🤩🥂

Time for outreach at the M-MATISSE workshop by the great @catherineregan0

Our lecturer Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano is leading this Mars mission concept for an ESA M-class mission. Follow her for updates on the potential of this exciting mission.

Here we go with a full day dedicated to Space Weather at Mars at the M-MATISSE workshop! ✨🛰🛰✨

A picture for the modern history! The M-MATISSE community together ✨🛰🛰✨