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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Sep 9

It is time for our session!! Do not miss the most ionized session at #EPSC2025!!!

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Do you want to know more about M-MATISSE? The team is at the #EPSC2025 conference and we will present different aspects of the mission, starting this afternoon with three consecutive talks, and a open session on Wednesday for all
Participants!

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here we go, final lecture of the week, this time at @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Space Physics STFC summer course. This time talking about our great Solar System! ✨✨

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Sep 3

New day new adventure! Today I’d been at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social talking about Mars and M-MATISSE at the STFC Astronomy Summer School. I had the pleasure to discuss science with a very bright cohort of new UK students! Wishing them all the best in their careers! ✨✨

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Sep 2

Today presenting the cruise science highlights of @BepiColombo at the @IAGA__AIGA meeting in Lisbon!
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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Sep 1

For those at the IAGA-IASPEI meeting in Lisbon this week, I’ll be presenting an overview of the cruise of BepiColombo at 3pm. Pass and say hello! 🛰✨

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 18

✨✨I’m hiring!!✨✨

If you are or know of a PostDoc willing to work with me and the planetary group at @physicsuol.bsky.social on how Mars’ magnetotail connects with its ionosphere and auroral activity, have a look below at the comments!

Deadline 17 Aug 2025

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 18

jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11...

Research Associate (Mars) in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team

View details and apply for this Research Associate (Mars) vacancy in Leicester. The University of Leicester is seeking to appoint a Research Associate to join the School of Physics and Astronomy. Thi...

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 18

✨✨I’m hiring!!✨✨

If you are or know of a PostDoc willing to work with me and the planetary group at @physicsuol.bsky.social on how Mars’ magnetotail connects with its ionosphere and auroral activity, have a look below at the comments!

Deadline 17 Aug 2025

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 17

Although the cruise of @science.esa.int BepiColombo is quite long, we are not bored and the mission is actually contributing to Heliophysics, as you can see in this paper we’ve just published! We are all looking forward arriving to Mercury soon!
earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10....

BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics - Earth, Planets and Space

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, was launched in October 2018 and is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in November 2026 after an 8-year cruise. Like other planetary missions, its scien...

earth-planets-space.springeropen.com

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · Jul 14

How the Martian atmosphere behaves and responds is not fully understood -- that’s why a team is proposing the M-MATISSE mission to find out. 🔭

www.iflscience.com/dangerous-ra...

Dangerous Radiation Awaits Astronauts On Mars – New Mission Could Work Out Just How Much

The proposed European mission aims to get a clear understanding of the Martian atmosphere.

www.iflscience.com

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 14

10 years of this lovely picture 😍

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jul 14

10 years ago, #OnThisDay in 2015, NASA's New Horizons probe performed the first flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, completing the initial survey of the Solar System. This 'true colour' photo was taken on 14 July 2015, showing numerous impact craters and the large basin of the Sputnik Planitia.

A true colour close up image of the dwarf planet Pluto, showing a large dark region to the bottom left and a pale smooth region crossing the equator in the middle right. Taken by NASA's New Horizons probe in 2015.

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 9

We had a really interesting session at #NAM2025 on space instrumentation, and had the great pleasure to present also the payload of M-MATISSE, including a great coverage from the RAS!

Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · Jul 9

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there... 👩‍🚀🚀

So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help.

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · Jul 9

M-MATISSE, which would involve two robot orbiters, could use UK instrumentation to revolutionise our understanding of space weather on Mars, according to researcher @bscredrojo.bsky.social, of the @physicsuol.bsky.social.

Learn more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing

drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what ch...

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · Jul 9

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there... 👩‍🚀🚀

So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help.

⤵️

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · Jul 9

We've just had plenary talks from Prof Leigh Fletcher, of the University of Leicester, on JWST's insights on the giant planets in our solar system and Prof Steven Longmore, of Liverpool John Moores University, exploring the environmental dependence of star and planet formation over cosmic time.

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The NAM public engagement lunch by the RAS.

The panel discussion on the future of UK astronomical instrumentation.

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 7

Many congratulations to the new Doctor, Dr Marina Sanchez-Bayton who has defended today her PhD work at @unicomplutense with highly success! I’m very proud of her, my first PhD student! 🥂✨✨✨

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jul 2

This week at @esa.int in the sunny ESAC at the Planetary Science Archive User Group meeting. Tons of planetary data waiting to be used!

Updates can be followed here: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/psa-...

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jun 7

This week we have been busy at @SpaceParkLeic! Not only we hosted the Mars Express Science Working Team, but also the Progress Meeting and System Engineering Working Group of M-MATISSE! Here part of the team enjoying a well deserved curry 😁😜✨🛰🛰✨

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are hosting this week the @esascience Mars Express 56 Science Working Team at @SpaceParkLeic , coinciding with the 22 anniversary of Mars Express in space! 🥂✨ the mission is more active than ever with tons of new scientific results!

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · May 23

My favorite sentence when discussing M-MATISSE stuff is that “we are all in the same boat”, and this time was literal! Conference cruise dinner on the Thames ✨🥂🛰🛰🥂✨

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · May 23

M-MATISSE workshop has concluded today, and what a week! full of discussions to solidify the science of the mission and with a community very well engaged! ✨ I will for sure always remember this fantastic week ✨🛰🛰✨ Here a week in numbers! 🤩🥂

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · May 21

Time for outreach at the M-MATISSE workshop by the great @catherineregan0

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University of Leicester, Physics & Astronomy @physicsuol.bsky.social · May 21

Our lecturer Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano is leading this Mars mission concept for an ESA M-class mission. Follow her for updates on the potential of this exciting mission.

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · May 20

A picture for the modern history! The M-MATISSE community together ✨🛰🛰✨

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano @bscredrojo.bsky.social · May 21

Here we go with a full day dedicated to Space Weather at Mars at the M-MATISSE workshop! ✨🛰🛰✨

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