Public outreach
Carmen Pastor talks about DUSTER in a video on IAA by the online newspaper Granada Digital
10 May 2024 - The online newspaper Granada Digital just published a video on the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía. The IAA has participated in important discoveries in recent years and has been awarded the Severo Ochoa seal of excellence. Its researchers cover multiple disciplines, an important aspect for the enrichment of its work and the possibility of collaborating with large international projects.
Carmen Pastor, software engineer at IAA, grabs her chance to highlight briefly our European funded DUSTER project :-)
The video is also included in the broader online news article, which mentions (translated to English):
Carmen Pastor, a software engineer, is involved in the development of space systems. Her team is currently involved in the DUSTER project, which investigates the properties of dust particles found on the moon and in other environments where space missions may go.
"It is important to know the characteristics of these particles in order to subsequently be able to build both a cleaning system and perhaps maintenance systems for the instruments themselves," says Carmen Pastor.
Europlanet Magazine Issue 6 talks about DUSTER
2 May 2024 - We are delighted to share with you our contribution to the sixth issue of the Europlanet Magazine, the official magazine of Europlanet, the European community for planetary science. The e-magazine is published twice a year and aims to highlight the range of activities by Europlanet, their partners, and the wider planetary community.
Dusting the Moon
Karolien Lefever and Sylvain Ranvier (BIRA-IASB, Belgium) report on DUSTER, a project that gets to grips with lunar dust in preparation for future exploration missions:
Access the full magazine: https://www.europlanet-society.org/europlanet-magazine/
"Dusting the moon" in Science Connection n° 70
22 March 2024 - Studying lunar dust in preparation of future exploratory space missions. Read all about the challenge of mitigating charged dust-like particles on the Moon in our freshly published article in the federal science policy's free magazine Science Connection n° 70 of February - March - April 2024 (in Dutch and French).
DUSTER makes the frontpage of the IAA outreach magazine
11 March 2024 - "El proyecto DUSTER - Estudiando el comportamiento del polvo lunar para preparar futuras misiones de exploración"
DUSTER makes it to the frontpage of the public outreach magazine of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía: IAA revista n° 72 of February 2024.
Read the full article in Spanish by clicking on the image below.