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Do you know a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to planetary science? Nominate them for the Europlanet Career Medals 2026!

👉 The call is now open: www.europlanet.org/the-europlan...

🧬 The Origins of Life Analytical Centre at the University of Kent (UK) is one of the NEW Transnational Access Facilities available to support your planetary research

🚀 The Transnational Access Programme Call is now OPEN!
Apply NOW! 👉 www.europlanet.org/infrastructu...

🛰️ First light for MAUVE!

@blueskiesspace.bsky.social has successfully achieved ‘first light’ with Mauve, beginning a new era in astronomical data delivery from small, rapidly built space telescopes

Congratulations from Europlanet 👏

🔬 Stable/Clumped Isotopes Laboratory at Isotoptech, Hungary, is one of the Transnational Access Facilities you can apply to, offering the opportunity to boost your planetary research.
🚀 The Transnational Access Programme Call is now OPEN!
Apply NOW! 👉 www.europlanet.org/infrastructu...

Do you want to boost your research? Get FREE access to state-of-the-art planetary facilities to simulate and characterise planetary conditions and materials.

🚀 Call now OPEN!
Apply NOW!👉 www.europlanet.org/infrastructu...

🔬 ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the UK is one of the NEW Transnational Access Facilities available to support your planetary research!

🚀 The Transnational Access Programme Call is now OPEN!
Apply NOW! 👉 www.europlanet.org/infrastructu...

🔬 B.RCLab at BIRA-IASB (Brussels) is one of the NEW Transnational Access Facilities available to boost your planetary research.

🚀 The Transnational Access Programme Call is now OPEN!
👉 Apply now: www.europlanet.org/infrastructu...

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🪐 Breaking News from Saturn! A new study led by Lina Hadid at Laboratory of Plasma Physics discovered that the tiny moon Enceladus has a huge impact around Saturn, trailing a wake of electromagnetic ripples over half a million kilometres 👉 Read the press release: bit.ly/tiny-enceladus

📣 The Transnational Access Programme Call is now OPEN!
Get FREE access to state-of-the-art planetary simulation and analysis facilities to simulate and characterise planetary conditions and materials.

🚀 Apply NOW! 👉 www.europlanet.org/infrastructu...

You still have time to join our next Europlanet Webinar!

Applications open for @unileiden.bsky.social/@esa.int Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS) 2026. The program is open to all students not currently engaged in a Ph.D. program. More at leaps.strw.leidenuniv.nl

✨ The Call for Sessions for the Europlanet Science Congress #EPSC2026 is now open! 👉 More info: www.europlanet.org/epsc2026-cal...

Did you know that Europlanet holds monthly webinars on a range of topics from science to policy, diversity and outreach? Quarterly webinars are also co-organised with the Science Team of the ESA Juice mission. You can rewatch them on our YouTube channels!

I'm curious who else is taking the @europlanetmedia.bsky.social GMAP Winter School this week!

It would be nice to connect with fellow students, since our interaction online seems limited.

Developed through EC-funded Europlanet projects, and hosted and maintained by the Observatory of Paris, VESPA is freely available to researchers and the general public: vespa.obspm.fr/planetary/da...

VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access) is a web-based search interface to identify and access planetary science and heliophysics data provided by the science community.

The deadline is TODAY!

📣 Last days to registrate to the @planetarymapping.bsky.social Winter School!

🛰️ Deadline for synchronous participation is Wed 21st January. Find out more: www.planetarymapping.eu

In addition to 10 European Regional Hubs, a Colombian Regional Hub was established in 2025 to support the community in Colombia and Latin America.

Our Hub Committees organise networking events and workshops to support the research community, as well as to build links with amateur astronomers, industrial partners, policymakers, educators, the media and the wider public.

Europlanet’s Regional Hubs support the development of planetary science at a national and regional level, particularly in countries and areas that are currently under-represented within the community!

As early careers comprise over half Europlanet’s individual members and attendees at EPSC, EPEC ensures that the (scientifically) young members of our community have a clear voice within Europlanet to shape the future of planetary and space sciences and engineering.

EPEC’s activities, including Annual Week and EPEC@EPSC, aim to form a strong network between young professionals by organising early-career-relevant events and by engaging in different projects amongst different focus areas (outreach, diversity, early career support).

The EPEC network is open to all students, doctoral candidates and early-career planetary scientists and space professionals whose last degree (e.g. MSc or PhD) was obtained a maximum of 7 years ago (excluding parental leave, serious illness and similar delays).

Do you know EPEC? The Europlanet Early Career network is organised by early-career researchers for early-career researchers, and includes volunteers from across the Europlanet international community.

To date, we funded over 600 research visits, amounting to in excess of 5,500 days of access (15 years), involving over 800 individual researchers accessing 23 laboratories (with over 80 individual facilities), 12 planetary analogue field sites and 17 telescopes.

Our Transnational Access programme is designed to allow researchers from anywhere in the world, and at all career stages, to have access to facilities to support scientific and technological excellence in planetary/space research and to foster international collaborations.

🛰️ We provide access to state-of-the-art distributed research and technology infrastructure to support planetary science and space exploration. Facilities for the simulation of planetary environments, analysis of planetary samples, testing and development of space technologies, and much more!

All of these 21 things are good but especially check the 21st one :)