✨✨New paper alert✨✨ first detection of the 2D structure of gravity waves propagating in Mars’ ionosphere thanks to the radar MARSIS on Mars Express agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Very proud of my colleagues at @SpaceParkLeic and @uniofleicester for making this a reality with the SXI instrument! Particularly my great office mate and friend @jennyacarter.bsky.social !!!

✨✨Paper alert✨✨ A new @NatureComms study led by C.Fowler reveals and unexpected response of the Martian ionosphere to major space weather events: plasma is squeezed along magnetic flux tubes, aiding in the deflection of the solar wind flow about Mars www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many congratulations to Dr Rong Tian on successfully passing her PhD defense yesterday at Wuhan University on the topic Mars’ ionosphere irregularities, like waves. I’m very proud of her! I also received a small trophy — I’m still wondering how she knew what I’d be wearing! 😂😅

This week I’m in Wuhan, China, for the PhD defense of my student Rong Tian — having a great time and even squeezed in a seminar!

The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social has a new President. 🪐🔭 Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social begins his two-year term in the role today, after succeeding Professor Mike Lockwood at today's RAS AGM. Read more here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

A pleasure to highlight papers like this one, where missions such as Mars Express are still uncovering excellent science +20 years after launch! eos.org/editor-highl...

Space weather matters at Mars. COSPAR‑ISWAT highlights how solar wind and storms drive atmospheric loss, radiation hazards, and mission risk—key to protecting assets today and understanding Mars’ past, present, and future habitability. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What a journey! After 5 years of dedication and hard teamwork, today we reached the final meeting with the M7 mission selection committee. Here are a few photos from last week’s final presentation. So proud of the whole team 💫✨🛰🛰✨ 💫

The big day has arrived! You can follow the M7 mission final public presentations tomorrow 22nd April here: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/m7-publi... M-MATISSE is the first one at 10 am! (Link at the bottom of the website)

When Paris makes the publicity for us…. Go M-MATISSE! 🤩✨✨🛰🛰✨✨ (For context, check the Grand Palais exposition happening right now! 😜)

Here we go Paris almost ready for the final public presentation of M-MATISSE on Wednesday!

Finally, snacks that are truly out of this world! Go M-MATISSE! ✨🛰🛰✨

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

LIFTOFF of #Artemis II on 1 April 23:35 BST/00:35 CEST 2 April 2026 from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the second Orion spacecraft with its ESA European Service Module! #ForwardToTheMoon @exploration.esa.int

Late evening seminar with a great discussion afterwards!

Fantastic day in London at the London Space Plasma Meeting! And a good practice for the final public presentation that it’s coming soon! 🫣

After 2 intense inspiring weeks from the payload review colocation to the Science Study Team meetings, I’m deeply proud of this team. We’re now standing at the doorstep of the final presentation & mission selection review. M‑MATISSE feels closer than ever! Really great hard work!

✨Paper alert✨ Thanks to MEX and TGO talking between them, a region of Mars’ ionosphere never explored before was sampled during a major solar storm. A fantastic work lead by Jacob Parrott! M-MATISSE will have this capability in much larger scale to explore the so far unseen!

Not sure how but 2 years have passed between these two pictures! It is now time to say “see you soon” to Rong Tian from Wuhan University, an amazing PhD student that soon will graduate! Very proud of you!✨✨

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 😍