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🗓️ Save the date! Calling all UK-based early-career planetary scientists 🪐 🌒 ☄️ 🚀 The UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting will be held on 9 January 2026, hosted by the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck, in London. Registration opening in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned!

A successful CPS Summer Meeting 2025! Really enjoyable annual get-together of all these wonderful planetary scientists at UCL and Birkbeck 🤩 🌔🪐☄️🚀🛰️

We are looking forward to the 15th Summer Meeting of the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck today!

A full day of fantastic talks - mostly by our PhD and MSc students 🤩 - and time to socialise with our planetary science colleagues ☀️ 😎

APEX this week: We are delighted to welcome Dr Sebastiaan Krijt @exeter.ac.uk to talk about his research on 'Planet formation with ALMA & JWST: Signatures of past and ongoing pebble migration in protoplanetary discs' 📡 🛰️ Fri 21st March, 1pm

Join us next Sat 8th March from 6pm at UCL to hear from our experts about Missions to Mars: current and future exploration of the Red Planet! A FREE public outreach event with talks + panel Q&A 🚀 🔴 🛰️ 🪐 ✨ #MarsWeek

Book your tickets at: mars-missions-ucl-cps.eventbrite.co.uk

APEX this week: We are delighted to welcome Professor Benjamin Mills @envleeds.bsky.social for his talk about how the Earth developed an oxygen-rich atmosphere and what controls how rocky planets become oxygenated 🌎 💨 Fri 28th Feb, 1pm

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APEX this week: We look forward to a talk from two of our Birkbeck MSc Astrobiology alumni, Isabel Risco Narvaez and Joshua Khan about their experience at the @esa.int #ELGRA Gravity-Related Research Summer School 🚀 Fri 21st Feb, 1pm

Calls now open for the ELGRA Summer School 2025! bit.ly/3X6RQJM

APEX this wk: We're delighted to welcome Gerard Gallardo i Peres @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @isardsat.bsky.social for his talk: Searching for Venus in Iceland - linking volcanic surface characteristics w/ radar signatures to model future measurements by EnVision & VERITAS 🌋📡 Fri 14 Feb, 1pm 💙

This week at APEX we look forward to a talk by Dr Yang Li (PKU and honorary Associate Professor @es-ucl.bsky.social) about 'Petrogenesis of the Chang’E 6 basalt and implications for mantle evolution'. Fri 7th Feb, 1pm 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘 🛰️

We are delighted to resume our Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration (APEX) seminar series this term with a talk from PhD researcher Martha (Mei Ting) Mak @exeter.ac.uk on the topic of Simulating Hazy Exoplanets. Fri 31st Jan, 1pm at UCL 🪐☁️

Also introducing our new APEX imagery and logo! 🤩

Great poster-lightning talk by CPS member and recently-graduated MSc student Joshua Khan from the School of Natural Sciences at Birkbeck College, University of London, on ‘ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover – Characterising Key Geological Units and Assessing Potential’.

Great keynote talk by Jon Pineau on Asteroid, comet, and KBO exploration 🚀 ☄️ at UKPF ECM 2025.

Excited to be at the UK Planetary Forum Early Careers Meeting today (UKPF ECM) @ox.ac.uk! 🪐 ☄️ 🛰️

In preparation for us hosting in 2026! 😊