Ready for session P41D - Space Environments of Unmagnetized or Weakly Magnetized Solar System Bodies and the Effects of Space Weather on these Systems! #AGU25

Good discussions at #AGU2025 Space Weather session for the Moon and Mars, where I presented @science.esa.int M-MATISSE M7 candidate and how we plan to tackle Mars Space Weather

Fantastic BepiColombo @science.esa.int week at @physicsuol.bsky.social ! Best way of almost ending the year with two full days of Mercury and cruise discussions at home! 🤩 (the “thing” in the middle is our fantastic X-Ray MIXS instrument on Bepi!!)

If you are at AGU next week and want to know more about how to publish at JGR-Planets, sign up to meet with Editor Beatriz Sanchez-Cano on 16 December at #AGU25! lite.spr.ly/600839s2

I still can’t believe they said my name!! I got the Global Space Award 2025 in the category of Science Breakthrough for my leadership of the M-MATISSE mission concept to Mars! A really wonderful night! Next step is to do our super best for the mission to be selected in June 2026!

Last M-MATISSE progress meeting at @science.esa.int before we submit all documentation for the Mission Selection Review. Everything almost ready! 😁✨🛰🛰✨

There are many reasons to be excited about #BepiColombo’s journey. Want to know more? 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 #planetsci

Space adventurers Bepi, Mio and MTM have just one year to go until they reach Mercury. What have they been up to since their journey began in 2018? Watch episode 2 of 'The epic adventures of BepiColombo' here 👉 youtu.be/41EdqhlH3PQ 👀 🔭 #planetsci #BepiColombo

I’m truly delighted to share that I’ve been shortlisted as a finalist for the Global Space Awards in the Science Breakthrough Award category for my work leading the ESA M7 mission candidate M-MATISSE! It was announced yesterday from the stratosphere!! A huge thanks to the team!!

Very proud of my brother who is now a Doctor!! He just passed his PhD defense and obtained Summa Cum Laude (with highest praise!). There is another Dr Sanchez-Cano now! (Although of avian influenza viruses….). We are very proud of him!

If you are at the @esww2025.bsky.social today, do not miss our Plenary Panel Session on Mars-Moon Space Weather! We are looking forward to seeing you!

Fantastic first part of the week at ESAC at the BepiColombo @science.esa.int Science Working Team meeting… just a bit over a year before arriving to Mercury! ✨✨ very exciting, and always great to go back home, even if just for a few days!

✨✨Paper alert ✨✨ to start the weekend with some reading! This time an invited review of Mars’ plasma system at Oxford Encyclopedia. Good weekend! oxfordre.com/planetarysci...

🐱 Our newest student! 🐱 Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻

A new student has joined my Space Environment class today at @physicsuol.bsky.social Even sat in a chair for the full hour! It seems students also enjoyed this new way of teaching!

Today I gave a seminar on my latest research work at Imperial College London, and was really amaze by these spectacular views of London! 😍✨✨

It is time for our session!! Do not miss the most ionized session at #EPSC2025!!!

Do you want to know more about M-MATISSE? The team is at the #EPSC2025 conference and we will present different aspects of the mission, starting this afternoon with three consecutive talks, and a open session on Wednesday for all Participants!

Here we go, final lecture of the week, this time at @unibirmingham.bsky.social for the Space Physics STFC summer course. This time talking about our great Solar System! ✨✨

New day new adventure! Today I’d been at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social talking about Mars and M-MATISSE at the STFC Astronomy Summer School. I had the pleasure to discuss science with a very bright cohort of new UK students! Wishing them all the best in their careers! ✨✨

Today presenting the cruise science highlights of @BepiColombo at the @IAGA__AIGA meeting in Lisbon! ✨🛰🛰✨

For those at the IAGA-IASPEI meeting in Lisbon this week, I’ll be presenting an overview of the cruise of BepiColombo at 3pm. Pass and say hello! 🛰✨

✨✨I’m hiring!!✨✨ If you are or know of a PostDoc willing to work with me and the planetary group at @physicsuol.bsky.social on how Mars’ magnetotail connects with its ionosphere and auroral activity, have a look below at the comments! Deadline 17 Aug 2025

✨✨I’m hiring!!✨✨ If you are or know of a PostDoc willing to work with me and the planetary group at @physicsuol.bsky.social on how Mars’ magnetotail connects with its ionosphere and auroral activity, have a look below at the comments! Deadline 17 Aug 2025

Although the cruise of @science.esa.int BepiColombo is quite long, we are not bored and the mission is actually contributing to Heliophysics, as you can see in this paper we’ve just published! We are all looking forward arriving to Mercury soon! earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10....

How the Martian atmosphere behaves and responds is not fully understood -- that’s why a team is proposing the M-MATISSE mission to find out. 🔭 www.iflscience.com/dangerous-ra...

10 years of this lovely picture 😍

We had a really interesting session at #NAM2025 on space instrumentation, and had the great pleasure to present also the payload of M-MATISSE, including a great coverage from the RAS!

M-MATISSE, which would involve two robot orbiters, could use UK instrumentation to revolutionise our understanding of space weather on Mars, according to researcher @bscredrojo.bsky.social, of the @physicsuol.bsky.social. Learn more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there... 👩‍🚀🚀 So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help. ⤵️

We've just had plenary talks from Prof Leigh Fletcher, of the University of Leicester, on JWST's insights on the giant planets in our solar system and Prof Steven Longmore, of Liverpool John Moores University, exploring the environmental dependence of star and planet formation over cosmic time. ⤵️

Many congratulations to the new Doctor, Dr Marina Sanchez-Bayton who has defended today her PhD work at @unicomplutense with highly success! I’m very proud of her, my first PhD student! 🥂✨✨✨

This week at @esa.int in the sunny ESAC at the Planetary Science Archive User Group meeting. Tons of planetary data waiting to be used! Updates can be followed here: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/psa-...

This week we have been busy at @SpaceParkLeic! Not only we hosted the Mars Express Science Working Team, but also the Progress Meeting and System Engineering Working Group of M-MATISSE! Here part of the team enjoying a well deserved curry 😁😜✨🛰🛰✨

We are hosting this week the @esascience Mars Express 56 Science Working Team at @SpaceParkLeic , coinciding with the 22 anniversary of Mars Express in space! 🥂✨ the mission is more active than ever with tons of new scientific results!

My favorite sentence when discussing M-MATISSE stuff is that “we are all in the same boat”, and this time was literal! Conference cruise dinner on the Thames ✨🥂🛰🛰🥂✨

M-MATISSE workshop has concluded today, and what a week! full of discussions to solidify the science of the mission and with a community very well engaged! ✨ I will for sure always remember this fantastic week ✨🛰🛰✨ Here a week in numbers! 🤩🥂

Time for outreach at the M-MATISSE workshop by the great @catherineregan0

Our lecturer Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano is leading this Mars mission concept for an ESA M-class mission. Follow her for updates on the potential of this exciting mission.

Here we go with a full day dedicated to Space Weather at Mars at the M-MATISSE workshop! ✨🛰🛰✨

A picture for the modern history! The M-MATISSE community together ✨🛰🛰✨

M-MATISSE community workshop has just started! 180 attendees discussing all fascinating aspects of the science of the mission! We had yesterday a fantastic first lessons learnt day, and today we go for a full day discussing Mars’ global dynamics! ✨🛰🛰✨

Very proud of my PhD student Dikshita Meggi who just published her first paper in @jgrplanets! She studied how the Martian magnetic field controls the topside dynamics of the ionosphere using data from the MARSIS radar on Mars Express agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Everything is ready at @ucl for our M-MATISSE workshop starting next Monday! Looking forward to meeting all our delegates in a fantastic science week! And in a, looks like, very sunny London! ☀️🛰✨🛰✨

What fantastic news!!!

The fantastic M-MATISSE team has been very present at #EGU2025 with several talks and posters. Today was the big day for the general overview of the mission, and Tom Andert from the radio science team did an outstanding job! As always, the team is very happy to discuss with all!