Training School Program
Our planet’s evolution is inexorably linked to the history of other planets and moons in our solar system. Our close neighbors, such as the Moon or Mars, can help us to understand how and why Earth was shaped in the way it was. Fundamental questions such as, why do we have plate tectonics and other planets do not? The provenance and evolution of volatile components, atmosphere composition and structure, and why life appeared on Earth about 4 Ga ago and did not (or did it?) in other Planets such as Mars, can be answered by looking at our neighbors. Our Planet, through as wide and diverse inventory of sedimentary environments and tectonic settings, can help us to better understand planetary data that space missions has been collecting during several decades. Through the lens of understanding how physical, chemical and biological processes are complexly interrelated on Earth and by using sedimentary or tectonic analogue settings that we know, we can unravel the evolution of other planets and thus our own evolution. For this reasons the leading topic of our First Latin American Workshop on Planetary Sciences Is Connecting Earth with other Planets: Earth-based analogues to understand extraterrestrial environments. The students, by using planetary analogues as model systems, will learn how we can collect and interpret sedimentary, geochemical, tectonic and geomorphologic data to unravel relevant processes to have a better understanding of these systems. Topics such as sedimentary processes, geochemistry, tectonic and geomorphology, and different analytical and modeling techniques will be covered by theoretical and practical activities. The “connection” with other planets will be by teaching the students how to gather and interpret freely available planetary data from space missions (ESA, NASA, satellite images, spectral data, geochemical, etc) making Planetary Geology and Astrobiology research accessible to the young scientific community in Latin America. Our aim is to provide a space to start building a planetary sciences community in Latin America. The training school is organized into different interrelated modules: Module 1 – Solar System and Planetary Surface Processes Module 2 – Sedimentary and geochemical processes relevant to astrobiology Module 3 – Planetary data processing and Mapping Module 4 – Open panel for a Planetary Science network Lectures will be delivered in English and/or Spanish.
31/10/2023
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lectures will be delivered in English or Spanish at local time (UTC/GMT -3 hs)
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08:00 - 08:30
Registration-1st Latin America Planetary Science Europlanet WorkshopSeries
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08:30 - 08:40
Welcome-1st Latin America Planetary Science Europlanet WorkshopSeries
Prof. B. Cavalazzi, Dr F.J. Gomez and Dr M. Spagnuolo (in presence) -
08:40 - 08:55
Welcome from the Europlanet H24 RI Coordinator
Prof. Nigel Mason, Coordinator of Europlanet EPN24 (online) -
08:55 - 09:10
Welcome from European Space Agency
Dr. Jorge Vago, ExoMars Project Scientist, ESA-ESTEC (online) -
09:10 - 09:20
Welcome from the Argentina National Space Activities Commission-CONAE
Dr. Marcelo Colazzo, Gerente de Vinculación Tecnológica de la CONAE (online) -
09:20 - 09:30
Welcome from the Head of the Geology Department of the Buenos Aires University
Prof. Ruen Lopez, Buenos Aires University (in presence) -
09:30 - 10:30
Búsqueda de meteoritos en el desierto: Puna y Antártida (Search for meteorites in the deserts: Puna and Antarctica) (spanish)
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10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
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10:50 - 11:30
Geología aplicada a la exploración de Asteroides y objetos transicionales (translation: Geology Applied to the study of asteroids and their transitions) (spanish)
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11:30 - 12:10
Los meteoritos, el Sistema Solar primitivo y las Ciencias Planetarias (translation: Meteorites, Primitive Solar System and planetary science) (spanish)
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12:10 - 13:00
Astrogeofisica (translation: AstroGeophysics) (spanish)
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13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
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14:00 - 14:40
Geologia y exploracion de Marte (translation: Geology and Exploration of Mars) (spanish)
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14:40 - 15:40
Minería de recursos extraterrestres en la Luna, Marte y los asteroides (Space mining on the Moon, Mars, and the asteroids) (spanish)
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15:40 - 16:40
Mision DART ASTEROIDES (translation: DART ASTEROIDES mission) (spanish)
01.11.2023
Lectures will be delivered in English or Spanish at local time (UTC/GMT -3 hs)
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09:00 - 09:50
La búsqueda de ambientes habitables en Marte: ¿Que podemos aprender al comparar la geología de Marte y de la Tierra? (Looking for habitable environments on Mars: What can we learn by comparing Earth and Mars geology) (spanish)
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09:50 - 10:40
Drenaje ácido: Procesos geoquímicos en un interesante ambiente extremo análogo a Marte (Acid drainage: Geochemical processes in an interesting extreme environment analogous to Mars) (spanish)
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10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
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11:00 - 11:30
Breve actividad práctica: ABC de PHREEQC para modelado geoquímico (Short Practical activity: ABC of PHREEQC for the geochemical modeling) (spanish)
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11:30 - 12:30
Searching for Signs of Life on Mars (english)
PLENARY LECTURE -
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
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13:30 - 14:00
Ethical considerations for analogue fieldwork in extreme environments (english)
KEY NOTE SEMINAR -
14:00 - 14:30
On the Current limits for detecting evidences of life on Mars (english)
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14:30 - 15:20
Astrobiología-microbiología en ambientes extremos: lagos hipersalinos de gran altura (Astrobiologia-microbiology in extreme environments approach: High-altitude hypersaline lakes) (spanish)
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15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
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15:40 - 16:20
From the Poles to the Depths: Marine Extremophiles as Models for Astrobiology (english)
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16:20 - 17:10
Synchrotron techniques on the study of geological and extraterrestrial samples, with an emphasis on the search for biosignatures (english)
02.11.2023
Lectures will be delivered in English or Spanish at local time (UTC/GMT -3 hs)
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09:00 - 10:30
Geologic mapping with planetary mission data (english)
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10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
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10:50 - 11:20
Planetary mapping case - Archytas Domes on the Moon (english)
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11:20 - 13:00
Guide to open source tools to support planetary mapping
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13:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
More tools to support planetary mapping (AMS StereoPipeline, ISIS and more) (english)
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15:00 - 15:40
RoverTito: una primera misión argentina a la Luna? (RoverTito: a first Argentinian lunar mission) (spanish)
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15:40 - 16:10
cofee break
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16:10 - 17:10
Mining in Space: a perspective from space law (english)
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17:30 - 19:00
Social event
03.11.2023
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08.50 - 09:00
Latin American Network of Astrobiology: An interdisciplinary effort
Dr. X. Abrevaya (AFE, UBA-CONICET) and Dr. D. Tovar (Corporación Científica Laguna) -
09:00 - 09:10
Taller de Ciencias Planetarias
Prof. R. Gil-Hutton (FCEFN-UNSJ, CONICET) -
09:10 - 09:20
Spain & Portugal EuroPlanet Society Regional Hub
Dr. Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo (ESA), Dr. P. Benavidez (Universidad de Alicante) -
09:20 - 10:20
Round table to discuss the state of the art of latin american planetary geology and astrobiology and its future (part I) (spanish or english)
Prof. F.J. Gomez (CONICET), Dr. M. Spagnuolo (Univ. Buenos Aires) with support from Dr. Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo (ESA) and Dr. P. Benavidez (Universidad de Alicante), MODERATORS -
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee Break
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10:40 - 11:40
Round table to discuss the state of the art of latin american planetary geology and astrobiology and its future (part II) (spanish or english)
Prof. F.J. Gomez (CONICET), Dr. M. Spagnuolo (Univ. Buenos Aires), Dr. Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo (ESA) and Dr. P. Benavidez (Universidad de Alicante), MODERATORS -
11:40 - 12:00
Closure of the Training School and certificate delivery