22 September 2023

From 19 to 21 September, the RoadMap workshop took place at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. The workshop was organized as a mix of invited lectures, oral presentations and poster sessions. The workshop addressed different topics related to dust and clouds, their characteristics (dynamics, radiative), their characterisation in the lab, and detection using remote sensing instruments.

The workshop included an interaction with students from the LUCA School of Art who presented an updated version of their artistic visualizations of Martian dust and ice clouds, created during their “magnet week” in March. Some impressions…

Improved version of the installation “Shine through Mars”, where the data are now printed on glass and where the blue light has been replaced by a more Martian reddish light. Credits: Karolien Lefever (BIRA-IASB)

RoadMap expo in the rooms of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. Credits: Lucie Lamort (BIRA-IASB)

Students are presenting their artistic visualisations of Mars data in interaction with scientists participating to the RoadMap workshop on 19 September 2023. Credits: Karolien Lefever (BIRA-IASB)

“Shine through Mars” installed on BIRA-IASB premises on the occasion of the RoadMap Workshop from 19 to 21 September 2023. Click to see a video of the immersive experience. Credits: Karolien Lefever (BIRA-IASB)