The SCITECHSS Group is a research and development team of scientists and engineers based at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–CSIC (Granada-Spain). It devotes its efforts to develop instruments for the exploration of our Solar System with the aim of obtaining scientific data. The analysis and interpretation of these data allow us to advance in the understanding of the nature of the planets, their satellites, and the small bodies.
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Cometary activity challenges scientists: difficult to find a balance in the models between no activity models and too much activity
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Authors, led by Nicholas Attree in the SCITECHSS group at IAA – CSIC, and in Germany (Technische Universiät Braunschweig, Universität Münster, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung), have published a new paper on thermophysical modelling of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Studying comets is important because they contain some of the most pristine material to be found anywhere in…
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Laughing gas and the search for life in the Universe
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Are we alone in the Universe? For the first time in human history, we are on the verge of characterising the atmospheres of distant rocky worlds that could resemble our own Earth. We will be able to search these atmospheres for signs of life, which we call biosignatures. Molecular oxygen (O2), which currently makes up…
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VenSpec Suite: delivery of the Pre-EM hardware for the CCU and VenSpec-H Channel
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Scheduled for launch in November 2031, EnVision is ESA’s next medium-class mission to Venus. Its goal is to trace the planet’s evolution “from core to cloud tops” and to understand why Earth’s twin followed such a radically different path. The payload combines a powerful S-band radar (VenSAR), a subsurface sounder, radio-science experiments, and the three-channel…