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From November 2-3, 2024, Lu, along with professors Jikun Feng, Qi Chen, and Zhiyang Dai, led students from the courses “Field Investigation of Structural Geology” and “Geology and Tectonics” on a field trip to the Dabie Mountains. During the fieldwork, the students learned about the tectonic background of the Yangtze Plate subducting beneath the North China Plate, and they practiced identifying rocks such as eclogite, gneiss, and granite, along with their mineral components. Around midday on the 3rd, the team reached the summit of Tianzhu Mountain.
On October 23, 2024, Pan Lu visited Jianping High School in Shanghai to give a lecture on China’s deep space exploration missions to 600 high school students, introducing the remarkable achievements of China’s space program.
On October 20, 2024, the collaborative work between Pan Lu and University of Copenhagen master’s student Marie Kepp, regarding the discovery of hydrated silica in Gale Crater, was published in the journal EPSL. For more details, please refer to the article link.
From October 18-19, 2024, the research group collectively participated in academic discussions and cultural exchanges with visiting guests from France, Frederic Moynier and Dimitri Ionov, and together visited Huangshan and Hongcun.
On October 7 to 12, 2024, group members (Jimin, Jianfei, Guixin, Yunwan and Lu) participated in the National Planetary Science Conference in Nanjing, China. We discussed with colleagues in China from different disciplines of planetary science and enjoyed the conference in the CBD of Nanjing.
Group photo at the conference (Lu had to leave early for a class lecture and missed the group photo..)
On September 30, 2024，Lu Pan went to Hefei Zhaoxia Primary School and gave an outreach talk titled: Setting out for the Moon and Mars-- Stories about Chang'E and Zhurong.
From August 26 to 28, 2024, Lu Pan participated in a geophysics field trip in Yunnan, leading second-year students from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences to visit the Kunming Heilongtan Field Observation Station, South China Karst, the Chengjiang Fauna, and the Seismic Disaster Mitigation Science Museum in Yuxi City. During the trip, members of the Yunnan Earthquake Agency and the Geological Survey Bureau gave explanations about the tectonic background of Yunnan and knowledge related to earthquake monitoring. The weather was great, and the scenery was beautiful!
On August 22, 2024, Yunwan Tao officially joined the research group as a visiting student, starting a one-year exchange visit. Welcome, Yunwan! 👏
On July 30, 2024, all members of the research group held a poster session for the FuSEP “Future Scientist” International Summer Exchange Program at the USTC1958 Café. This event served as the closing activity for the FuSEP exchange program. Visiting students and summer research interns, including Luke, Zihan Sun, Qing Huang, and Fanggang Li, along with Liu Jianfei and Xing Guixin, presented their posters. Other faculty members and students from different research groups within the department also participated in the discussions and exchanges, creating a lively atmosphere. We extend our gratitude to all the teachers and students for their participation and support, and we hope the visiting students have enjoyed the stay at USTC and had a fruitful experience.
On July 2-8, 2024, Jianfei, Guixin and Lu participated in the field trip to Xiuyan impact crater organized by Prof. Jiaqi Li from Peking University. We helped the team to investigate the subsurface and geological structure of the crater using a combination of geophysical methods and geological observation.
Panorama of Xiuyan crater from the crater rim
On June 28, around the same time as the lunar sample from CE6 mission is delivered, Lu Pan gave an outreach talk in the Feidong District Science Museum to ~150 elementary school students titled "Wandering on Mars".
From June 20 to 23, 2024, the Special Conference on ‘Searching for Traces of Life on Mars’ and the Tianwen-3 Science and Application Conference was held in Weihai, Shandong. Lu Pan attended the conference and reported on the geological background and scientific significance of landing sites in canyon, river channel, and delta regions. Together with over 200 experts, they discussed key issues in the search for traces of life on the Red Planet.
Lu giving a presentation on landing site selection
On June 13, 2024, the University of Science and Technology of China announced the list of prospective doctoral students for 2024. Congratulations to Jianfei on officially being admitted as a doctoral student at USTC!
On May 18-20, 2024, Lu Pan participated in the Planetary Science and Space Technology session of the Ninth Youth Geoscience Forum organized in Xiamen. The session featured a variety of topics, covering different approaches from engineering technology to scientific exploration, from samples to data and models.
On May 18, 2024, The University of Science and Technology of China held its Science and Technology Week, hosting appoximately 20000 students. Jianfei Liu and Lu Pan helped organize activities at the geophysics and space technology science popularization station. These activities included demonstrations of historical seismometers, explanations of distributed accoustic sensing seismometer, speed of sound experiments, ground-penetrating radar demonstrations, and meteorite displays, all of which were engaging and educational. Thanks to all the volunteers who participated.
Volunteers are explaining DAS seismometer and meteorites to vistors
On the afternoon of May 8, 2024, Jianfei Liu participated in the qualify exam for the PhD program in Geophysics at the University of Science and Technology of China. During the interview, he gave a PPT presentation on his master’s studies and work, as well as his proposed research for the PhD, and answered questions from the expert committee.
On the morning of April 27, 2024, Lu Pan attended an academic salon on planetary exploration held at the 1958 Café in the Eastern District. Together with Professors Jingnan Guo and Jihua Hao, they introduced the research directions and recent developments in the field of planetary exploration to the undergraduate students from the School of the Gifted Young and the Department of Earth and Space Sciences.
On April 24, 2024, Lu Pan gave an outreach talk titled 'A Hitchhiker's Guide to Mars' to more than 1000 high school students in Lu'an second high school.
On April 21, 2024, as a faculty representative, Lu Pan participated in the inaugural meeting of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences Badminton Team and delivered a speech on behalf of the faculty, supporting the continued development of badminton in the department.
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."
