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Planetary scientist Sebastiaan de Vet of the Planetary Exploration group at TU Delft has received a Comenius Teaching Fellowship for his proposal to start developing a ‘Planetary Analogue Rock Collection’ (PARC) for use in courses of the Planetary Exploration MSc profile. By allowing students to work with terrestrial rocks and minerals that also occur on …

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Funding within the second call of the programme ‘Use of space infrastructure for Earth Observation and Planetary Research (GO)’ from 2022 will be divided among nine research projects. The funded research proposals encompass studies on, for example, air quality and climate models or the evolution and origin of Mercury. Various national and international space organisations …

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The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the ERC Starting Grants for young researchers. One of them is joining the Planetary Exploration group at TU Delft: Edgar Steenstra to study volcanic processes on Venus. The European grant of € 2,228,075 for a five-year research programme is intended to enable Steenstra to build his own teams …

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Funding within the ‘Use of space infrastructure for Earth Observation and Planetary Research (GO)’ call is distributed among 15 research projects. The researchers will make substantial use of space infrastructure for their projects and will, among other things, conduct research on CO and CO2 emissions from forest and wildfires and volcanism on Mars. Various national …

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