Scientific projects and missions

 

01/11/1987 - 15/01/1988 - Belgian Royal Museum for Central Africa

15/01/1988 - 01/08/1988 - Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

01/08/1988 - 01/01/1990 - Laboratory for Atmosperic and Space Physic (LASP)

01/08/1988 - 01/01/1990 - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

01/01/1990 - 15/06/2015 - Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (IASB/BIRA)

01/07/1993 - 21/07/1993 - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

23/02/1991 - 25/05/1991 - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)

 

BIRA-IASB has a longstanding expertise in the modeling of the atmosphere of Mars. In the early 1990s the first 2D model for the chemistry in the Martian atmosphere was developed by Didier Moreau and Guy Brasseur.

 

Projects:

 

1. Master Thesis :  The annular  massives of  Jabal al Uweynat and Jabal Arkenu, cartographic, petrological and mineralogical studies.: Comparative study of hydrothermal alteration models of basic mantel-derived magma during  final crystallization

2. PhD Thesis:  Aeronomy of the lower and middle atmosphere of Mars: Development of a two-dimensional mathematical model of the Martian atmosphere treating interactively dynamical chemical and radiative processes.

3. Annex Thesis: The analysis of the infrared data (0.76 to 3.15 microns) from ISM imaging spectrometer on the Phobos 2 probe can be used to decide between the wind, volcanic, sedimentary and hydrothermal deposits and the Amazonian Hespériens component inside the Mariner Valley on Mars.

4. 1990 – 1994 Project PI  “Theoretical Research on Martian atmosphere”, Fund of Fundamental Scientific Research from Collective Ministerial Initiative (FRFSC-IM)

5. 1994 – 1998 Project PI  “Theoretical Research on Martian atmosphere”, Fund of Fundamental Scientific Research from Collective Ministerial Initiative (FRFSC-IM)

6. Co-Investigator of SPICAM for Mars-96 Mission

7. Co-Investigator of SPICAM Light for Mars-Express

8. Co-Investigator of the proposal to observe  Martian dust storms  With  ISO (ESA)

9. Co-Investigator  / Belgian Coordinator  for the ROSETTA/ IR/OSIRIS experiment: Not selected by ESA 

10. Co-Investigator of the Belgian-French-Russian mission in February 1993 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to observe Mars, Jupiter and other planets sources

11. Co-Investigator of the Belgian-French-Russian mission in July 1994 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to observe the effects of the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy on the structure of the Jovian atmosphere

12. Co-Investigator of the mission Belgian-French-Russian April 1994 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to observe Mars, Jupiter and other planets sources

13. Co-Investigator  of the Belgian-French-Russian mission in February 1995 to 6 m telescope Zelenchuk in the Caucasus in order to obtain infrared spectra of Mars to confirm the presence of organic molecules in the atmosphere

14. Co-Investigator of the  UV-visible and infrared SPICAM spectrometers

15. Co-Investigator of UV-VIS spectrometer for  EXOMARS