Planetary Spectroscopy Laboratory

Kick-off meeting of the EuroPlanet Research infrastructure - time to start working on your proposals to get time in the top planetary laboratories in Europe
http://goo.gl/ec1ihg

Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure launches new era of planetary collaboration in Europe A €9.95 million project to integrate and support planetary science activities across Europe has been launched. The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (RI) is funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and will run for four years until August 2019. The project is led by the Op…

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530023.100-superpowered-oven-suggests-venus-once-had-continents.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2014-GLOBAL-twitter #.VKbVm2SG8lT

'Super-powered oven' suggests Venus once had continents - space - 02 January 2015 - New Scientist The first lab analogue study of Venus's surface composition finds that it might be made of granite, a key component of Earth's continents

The long coming paper on the effects of Mercury temperatures on mid infrared spectra is finally in press
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X13001593

A paper on the effects of high temperatures on sulfides is finally in press
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X13001660

ScienceDirect.com - Earth and Planetary Science Letters - Visible and near We found permanent changes to visible spectra of sulfides after exposure to temperatures of 500 °C in a vacuum environment.

See PEL at the LPSC in Houston!

Mario was highlighted by Deutsche Welle and you can see him work also at PEL!

Kluge Köpfe - Mario D'Amore, Planetenforscher | Projekt Zukunft | Deutsche Welle null DW-WORLD.DE, die Deutsche Welle im Internet: Nachrichten, Analyse und Service aus Deutschland und Europa - in 30 Sprachen