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On April 24, 2024, Lu Pan gave an outreach talk to more than 1000 high school students in Lu'an second high school.
On April 1, 2024, the cherry blossoms are blooming and Spring is in USTC. We took a group picture with the cherry blossoms.
From left to right: Jianfei, Guixin, Lu, and Jimin. (Photo taken on Apr. 1 2024)
On March 22-25, 2024, Lu Pan and Jimin Peng attended the first China Geophysics Youth Forum, and gave oral presentations in the planetary physics session.
Jimin giving a talk on the Martian Dark Dune Spots
On March 11-15, 2024, Jimin Peng attended the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference virtually and gave an oral presentation in the Mars ices and polar processes session. Her talk is titled "Observations of Water Ice Halos and Bright Cores within Dark Dune Spots: Implication for a Solid Green-house Effect."
On March 8, 2024, Lu Pan gave a presentation on landing site selection for Tianwen-3 mission for the working group, with input from Jimin and Jianfei.
On January 5, 2024, Lu Pan delivered an academic presentation and engaged in discussions with over 30 international students attending the summer camp at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). These students, hailing from 11 countries including the USA, the UK, Italy, and Russia, exhibited a strong curiosity and enthusiasm for Chinese culture and deep space exploration.
From December 18-19, 2023, Lu Pan and Guixin Xing traveled to Beijing on the coldest days to conduct research and sample testing with a spectrometer, yielding a batch of initial data.
On December 2, 2023, the research group, including Lu Pan and Jianfei Liu, participated in the first Earth Physics Graduate Forum held in the West Third Lecture Hall of the Physical Chemistry Building. They shared and exchanged views with graduate students and teachers from different specialties and fields, as detailed in a report by USTC's Earth and Space News.
On December 1, 2023, Guixin Xing joined the research group, starting her undergraduate thesis work early. Welcome Guixin!
From November 17-18, 2023, Jinmin Peng attended the first Geophysics Forum for Young Scholars in the Middle and Lower Yangtze River and presented a poster, as reported in the news.
On October 15, 2023, Jimin Peng officially joined the research group to start his postdoctoral work. Welcome Jimin!
On October 26, 2023, Lu Pan gave a report on the progress of planetary remote sensing and Mars climate research for the "Advances in Geophysics" graduate English course in Room 2405 of Building 2.
On October 18, 2023, Lu Pan participated in the "Scientists into Schools" event, visiting Minghuang Road Primary School in Hefei's Yaohai District. She delivered a science popularization lecture to over 150 students and teachers from the fifth grade, introducing basic knowledge about Mars, the geophysical methods of Mars exploration by the Insight mission, and showcasing different types of meteorites, as reported in the news.
On August 30, 2023, the planetary data storage server and image processing workstation were set up, ready for data download.
In July 2023, congratulations to Guixin Xing for passing the USTC Earth and Planetary Physics summer camp assessment and being recognized as an outstanding camper.
In July 2023, as part of the Suzhou middle school students' visit to USTC, Lu Pan delivered a science popularization lecture titled "Listening to the Sounds of Mars" and promoted the School of Earth and Space Sciences at USTC, inviting students to join the big family of Earth and planetary sciences research.
In May 2023, Lu Pan was invited to give a lecture for the "Earth System Science: Solid Earth Physics" course, introducing the research content and background knowledge of planetary science to sophomore students.
From July 2-4, 2023, the research group attended the Frontiers of Earth and Planetary Sciences International Symposium and the International Promotion Association for Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES), as reported by USTC News. At the conference, Lu Pan delivered an oral presentation on the influence of impact melt oxidation on the early Martian climate, and Jianfei Liu presented a poster on his recent research on Mars radar data analysis methods. The conference was held in the USTC Water Lecture Hall.
In May 2023, Lu Pan passed the selection for the qualification of doctoral supervisor at USTC.
From April 26-27, 2023, the first International Conference on Deep Space Science and the first Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) International Forum's Deep Space Science sub-forum were held in Hefei's Binhu District at the Sunac Hotel Group, as reported by USTC News. The session on "New views on Mars and Moon: From surface to the core" organized by the research group was successfully held, marking the first invitation of international colleagues (including scholars from the University of Toulouse in France and the ETH Zurich in Switzerland) to China for academic exchange and sharing of latest findings post-pandemic.
In April 2023, Jianfei Liu joined the research group. Welcome Jianfei!
On March 15, 2023, Lu Pan and collaborators published results in GRL on the impact of impact oxidation effects on the early Martian climate. This work reported calculations of the total amount and duration of hydrogen gas produced by the oxidation process of impact melts, finding that the oxidation potential of melts could extend the storage time of hydrogen in the atmosphere. This provides a new approach to solving the paradox of Mars's early climate. The work was featured in an AGU journal EoS article, "Asteroid Impacts Could Have Warmed Ancient Mars."
