Planets@Weizmann

Check out Elad's @eladdavid6 JGR paper on the interactions between ground ice and CO2 in past eons

Check out the new JGR paper by former @PlanetsATWIS member Eran Vos on the paleo-evolution of subsurface ice on Mars

Elad will present his work at #LPSC2023 tomorrow on the session “Mars, Cold as Ice 1: Polar Caps and Dynamic Processes” (10:55 AM)

Congratulations to Elad David @eladdavid6 for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Elad explored the effect of ground ice redistribution on the paleo-CO2 cycle in recent Mars, and will continue work on Mars volatiles during his PhD at @PlanetsAtWIS

Congratulations to Eran Vos @Eranium_V for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Eran modeled the physical and chemical evolution of the martian polar caps, and will continue to work on understanding the climate of Mars at LMD, Paris

Happy Holidays from the Aharonson group!

Exoplanet masses from transit-variations: @AstroGidi, @AvivOfir and @odedaha present PyDynamicaLC: an open-source simplified photodynamical model. Masses of 10 small planets (3 previously unknown) were determined. More in: arxiv.org/abs/2011.04404

Exoplanets with rings: In their recent study, Edan Rein and @avivofir created a high-precision and computationally-efficient light-curve generator for an exoplanet with rings. The source code is public. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.…

In their recently published study, Yair Judkovsky, @AvivOfir and @odedaha present an analytic method for lightcurve fitting, demonstrating that the vanishing transits of KOI 120.01 can possibly arise from a planet undergoing rapid orbital precession. arxiv.org/abs/2010.13051

@ESO_IR2020 workshop on ground-based thermal IR observations - spectacular success! TONS of great talks, posters and acquaintance with many of the leaders of this discipline. I also talked about our observations of protoplanetary disks with VISIR. :) youtu.be/npKyi0UqRA4

Micro cold traps on the Moon: A recent paper in @NatureAstronomy by @phayne, @odedaha & @norbertinhawaii shows ice may be more accessible than previously thought. Full paper is available at nature.com/articles/s4155…

Congratulations to @AstroGidi on obtaining a M.Sc degree. @AstroGidi developed a Photo-dynamical model for better constraining small Exoplanets masses. Good luck in your Phd at the @UniHeidelberg!! #exoplanet #MSc #WIS

We've had the pleasure to host Prof. Alex Hayes from @Cornell. His talk about Ocean worlds of the outer solar system was fascinating!!

Don't miss the talk by our own Yair Judkovsky about probing exoplanetary orbital precession from transit variations at the Planetary Dynamics Conference, held at @mpi_astro! Session 6 (4.6.19), 14:30. (www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/dynamics…)

We've had the pleasure to host Prof. David Stevenson of @Caltech. His fascinating talk about mixing and unmixing of planets culminated in the following life advice: "To determine the interior structure of a planet: thermodynamics first, gravity later."

Hebrew-only content: @AstroGidi מקבוצת המחקר בכמה מילים על איך חוקרים עולמות רחוקים: davidson.weizmann.ac.il/node/12743 דרך @DavidsonOnline

First Selfie from #Beresheet as it approaches its landing site at an altitutde of ~21 km!

Waiting for #Beresheet to emerge from behind the Moon, due to touchdown with the lunar surface in three hours! - Mare Tranquilitatis as seen from @WeizmannScience and #OdedAharonson at the @TeamSpaceIL control center. #PlanetsAtWIS @GrossmanYuval #YonatanShimoni #NadavNahaman

#Beresheet approaches the moon and performs its most important manoeuvre! Watching live at live.spaceil.com! @TeamSpaceIL

@Eranium_V presents his work at the Earth and Planetary Sciences Conference (EPScon) on the dynamic and isotopic evolution of ice reservoirs on Mars! The work of @Eranium_V @odedaha and @norbertinhawaii is available at: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #marsexploration #mars #npld