ESA 'Huygens and Mars Express' science highlights - call to press

No.54-2005 - Paris, 21 November 2005

ESA 'Huygens and Mars Express' science highlights - call to press

This has been a triumphant year for science at the European Space Agency.

Almost one year has passed since ESA's Huygens probe landed on Saturn's
largest moon, Titan. Today, a set of new wide-ranging results from the
probe's two-and-a-half hour descent and landing, part of the extraordinary
NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and its moons, is ready for
release.

At the same time, ESA's Mars Express mission is continuing its
investigations of Mars, painting a new picture of the 'red planet'. This
includes the first ever probing below the surface of Mars, new geological
clues with implications for the climate, newly-discovered surface and
atmospheric features and, above all, traces of the presence of water on this
world.

These and other exciting findings from just one year of observations and
data analysis - in the context of ESA's overall scientific achievements -
will be the focus of a press conference to be held at ESA Headquarters in
Paris at 16:00 on 30 November 2005.

Media interested in attending are invited to complete the following
registration form.

Press conference programme
Space Science Highlights 2005
From (Cassini)-Huygens to Mars Express

30 November 2005, 16:00 hrs
Room 137, European Space Agency Headquarters
8-10 Rue Mario-Nikis,
F-75738 Paris Cedex, France

15:30 Registration

16:00 A Year of European Space Science Successes
Prof. David Southwood, ESA Director of Science Programme

16:10 Highlights of the Huygens Mission Results
Jean-Pierre Lebreton, ESA Huygens Mission Scientist

16:15 Robin Duttaray, Co-Investigator, Doppler Wind Experiment, University
of Bonn, Germany

16:20 Marcello Fulchignoni , Principal Investigator, Huygens Atmospheric
Structure Instrument,

16:25 John Zarnecki, Surface Science Package, Open University, UK

16:30 François Raulin, Co-Investigator, Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer,
Université de Paris 2 - Créteil

16:35 Guy Israel, Principal Investigator, Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser,
Service d'Aéronomie/CNRS

16:40 Bruno Bezard, Co-Investigator, Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer,
Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique,
Observatoire de Paris

16:45 Jonathan Lunine, Interdisciplinary Scientist, Titan surface-atmosphere
interactions, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson (USA)


16:55 Questions and Answers

17:05 Coffee break

17:10 Mars Express: results in the overall context of Martian science,
Agustín Chicarro, ESA Mars Express Project Scientist

17:15 Giovanni Picardi (or representative), MARSIS Principal Investigator,
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Jeffrey Plaut, MARSIS Co-Principal Investigator, NASA/JPL, USA

17:30 Jean-Pierre Bibring, OMEGA Principal Investigator, Institut
d'Astrophysique spatiale, Orsay, France

17:40 Gerhard Neukum, HRSC Principal Investigator, Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany

17:45 Questions and Answers

17:55 Interview opportunities






Press conference
Space Science Highlights 2005
From (Cassini)-Huygens to Mars Express

30 November 2005, 16:00 hrs
Room 137, European Space Agency Headquarters
8-10 Rue Mario-Nikis,
F-75738 Paris Cedex, France


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