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Ahmad Al Bitar
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The impact of the war in Ukraine on wheat growing

Ahmad Al Bitar, CNRS Research Engineer at Centre d'Études Spatiales de la Biosphère, Veronika Antonenko, Research Engineer at Centre d'Études Spatiales de la Biosphère

On March 26th, 2025
3 min reading time
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Satellite images reveal the extent of methane leaks across the world

Marielle Saunois, Lecturer and Researcher at Université Versailles Saint Quentin and Member of Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory

On March 19th, 2025
4 min reading time

Satellite data now makes it possible to measure methane leaks independently, without relying on industry estimates.

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IRIS2: everything you need to know about this new European constellation

Jean-Pierre Diris , Interministerial Coordinator for France on IRIS² and GOVSATCOM

On March 11th, 2025
5 min reading time

Europe will be deploying the IRIS2 constellation of telecoms satellites in 2030 to avoid relying on non-European players for its strategic or governmental needs.

Lina Hadid
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BepiColombo: revelations from the Mercury mission

Lina Hadid, Astrophysicist and Researcher at Plasma Physics Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On March 5th, 2025
4 min reading time
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Mars: how studying earthquakes changed our vision of the red planet

Philippe Lognonné, Professor at Université Paris Cité and at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

On January 15th, 2025
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Scientists are reporting on the first seismic signals measured on the planet Mars following NASA's InSight mission, launched in 2018.

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How can we detect life on distant planets?

Julien de Wit, Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences at MIT , Amaury Triaud , Professor of Exoplanetology at University of Birmingham

On May 21st, 2024
3 min reading time

A new approach is being considered to detect exoplanets with the surface conditions needed to harbor life.