Public outreach
Students enjoy a Meet & Greet with Sylvain Ranvier on the topic of lunar dust
25 April 2024 - Today was the 13th edition of the ASGARD at the Space Pole in Uccle! More than 100 high school students, both from Belgium and internationally, came on site to launch their scientific experiments aboard one of two stratospheric balloon in the framework of the ASGARD balloon project, led by the Belgian space teacher Erik de Schrijver. The students followed several scientific workshops and were able to meet scientists from the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, and the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy during a Meet & Greet. At BIRA-IASB, our project PI Sylvain Ranvier talked to the next generation of STEM students about his work within the DUSTER project.
"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).
Video presentation of DUSTER in 4 languages
- French → DUSTER : étudier la poussière lunaire en vue de futures missions d'exploration
- Dutch → DUSTER : onderzoek naar maanstof ter voorbereiding op toekomstige verkenningsmissies
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Spanish → DUSTER: un estudio del polvo lunar en preparación de futuras misiones de exploración
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.
DUSTER on Spanish international radio
8 February 2024 - Rosario Sanz speaks about the danger of lunar dust on the Spanish international radio channel Radio Television Española (RTVE) of the Radio Nacional (RNE):
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