Beatriz Sánchez-Cano
@bscredrojo.bsky.social
Planetary Scientist @ University of Leicester. STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow. Editor of JGR Planets. Lead Scientist of ESA M7 candidate M-MATISSE
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A picture for the modern history! The M-MATISSE community together ✨🛰🛰✨
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!!
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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!
November 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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!
October 31, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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!
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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...
oxfordre.com/planetarysci...
oxfordre.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
✨✨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...
oxfordre.com/planetarysci...
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🐱 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! 😻
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! 😻
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🐱 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! 😻
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!
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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! 😍✨✨
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today I gave a seminar on my latest research work at Imperial College London, and was really amaze by these spectacular views of London! 😍✨✨
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!
Participants!
September 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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!
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! ✨✨
September 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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! ✨✨
September 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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!
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September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Today presenting the cruise science highlights of @BepiColombo at the @IAGA__AIGA meeting in Lisbon!
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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! 🛰✨
September 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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! 🛰✨
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✨✨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
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
July 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
✨✨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
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
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
July 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
✨✨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
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....
earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10....
BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics - Earth, Planets and Space
BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, was launched in October 2018 and is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in November 2026 after an 8-year cruise. Like other planetary missions, its scien...
earth-planets-space.springeropen.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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....
earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10....
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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...
www.iflscience.com/dangerous-ra...
Dangerous Radiation Awaits Astronauts On Mars – New Mission Could Work Out Just How Much
The proposed European mission aims to get a clear understanding of the Martian atmosphere.
www.iflscience.com
July 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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...
www.iflscience.com/dangerous-ra...
10 years of this lovely picture 😍
10 years ago, #OnThisDay in 2015, NASA's New Horizons probe performed the first flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, completing the initial survey of the Solar System. This 'true colour' photo was taken on 14 July 2015, showing numerous impact craters and the large basin of the Sputnik Planitia.
July 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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!
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.
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So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help.
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July 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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!
Reposted by Beatriz Sánchez-Cano
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...
Learn more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing
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July 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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...
Learn more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Reposted by Beatriz Sánchez-Cano
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.
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So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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.
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So that's where a new mission proposal shared at #NAM2025 could help.
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Reposted by Beatriz Sánchez-Cano
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.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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.
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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! 🥂✨✨✨
July 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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-...
Updates can be followed here: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/psa-...
July 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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-...
Updates can be followed here: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/psa-...