Beatriz Sánchez-Cano

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

An incredible week at @ISSIBern ! Perhaps the most productive ever team I’ve been! :) a great team! teams.issibern.ch/solarparticles…

Happy to celebrate Dr Dikshita Meggi passing her PhD viva @PhysicsUoL My first student as main supervisor, and now my Postdoc! Dikshita has done an amazing work on how the Martian crustal magnetic fields shape the topside ionosphere, very proud oh her! Onwards and upwards 🚀🔴

University of Leicester scientists have secured a prestigious €2.5m @ERC_Research grant to use the James Webb Space Telescope as the "New Voyager", uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Read more: space-park.co.uk/2026/06/over-e… #JWST #PlanetaryScience

Come and see us at @uniofleicester physics and astronomy on the Open Day, 4th July and chat to current students like Jude: le.ac.uk/study/citizens…

News | Over €2 million EU funding for Leicester scientists to explore the giant planets with JWST 👉 le.ac.uk/news/2026/june… #CitizensOfChange | @PhysicsUoL @NASAWebb @ERC_Research

Britain's lost Mars lander is getting its place in history. 📜 Commemorative red plaques are being unveiled across the UK to celebrate Beagle 2, which landed on Mars on Christmas Day 2003 to search for signs of life. 🦠 🔴 Find out more 👉 orlo.uk/9yQAx

A great mission that we are going to deeply miss, farewell @MAVEN2Mars !!

Un eclipse marciano: Phobos cruza por delante del Sol. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260524.… Créditos del vídeo: NASA, JPL-Caltech, ASU MSSS, SSI #mars#moon#eclipse

✨✨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/10.1029/20…

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 !!!

✨✨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 nature.com/articles/s4146…

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!

A pleasure to highlight papers like this one, where missions such as Mars Express are still uncovering excellent science +20 years after launch!

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. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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: cosmos.esa.int/web/m7-public-… M-MATISSE is the first one at 10 am! (Link at the bottom of the website)

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! ✨🛰🛰✨