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For the first time, a team has succeeded in characterizing, in a liquid medium and at the nanometric scale, the influence of bacterial cells and the organic polymers they secrete on the formation of a mineral.
Scientists have confirmed by laboratory experiments the existence of a novel isotopic effect, discovered 35 ago during ozone synthesis.
Earth’s atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, a mixture that is unique in the Solar System1. The oxygen was produced by some of the first living organisms. But where did the nitrogen come from? Did it escape from Earth’s mantle through volcanic activity?
A team of researchers from IPGP, Université de Paris, CNRS and the MNHN, published in the last months, a series of three papers that contribute to explain the formation of the first minerals of our Solar System. In order to better convey the relevance of this study, they publish a video illustrating their work.
A new lava flow was identified and first seafloor images of the volcano were taken during MAYOBS 3 and MAYOBS 4 oceanographic campaigns. Meetings and feedback with the various stakeholders in Mayotte also took place on board the Marion Dufresne.
Nathalie Feuillet, a researcher at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, head of the INSU TELLUS SISMAYOTTE project and co-head of the MAYOBS 1 mission, answered three questions about on the operations that led to the discovery of a new active volcano east of Mayotte.
The IPGP's Guadeloupe Volcanological and Seismological Observatory participates, on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 June, in the Japanese days organised by the Prefecture of Guadeloupe with all partners involved in telluric risk management.
A team of researchers from IPGP and JPL reveals that strong insights into Mars’ thermal history and rheology can be gained by considering Mars’ closest satellite, Phobos, whose orbital evolution is governed by Mars’ thermo-chemical history, through tidal interactions.
On March 2, 2019, the Trace Gas Orbiter Probe (TGO) of the European Space Agency's ExoMars program was able to photograph the InSight probe on the surface of the red planet. This is the first time that a European satellite has achieved this technical feat.
From 23 February 2019, land and sea missions, coordinated by the CNRS, will try to shed light on the mechanisms related to the many earthquakes recorded off Mayotte since May 2018.
Most terrestrial sand seas form at ‘horse’ latitudes, where the wind direction exhibits seasonal variation. Here, we extend the two-dimensional linear stability analysis of a flat sand bed associated with a unidirectional wind to the three-dimensional case in order to account for multidirectional wind regimes.
By protecting the seismometer from temperature variations and winds, the shield is essential to achieve a noise level compatible with recording the smallest vibrations of the Martian surface. Under its protective dome, the SEIS seismometer will be able to be used to the maximum of its potential.