RESEARCH

Research interests: Investigation of planetary surfaces and subsurfaces

Targets: Icy satellites (Titan, Iapetus, Enceladus…), comets (67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko), Mars, Pluto…

Tools: RADARs (SAR, altimeter, GPR), microwave radiometers and permittivity probes

Science Teams

• CoI on the EnVision M5 ESA mission proposal (since 2015) 

Mission to Venus : http://www.envisionm4.net/

• CoI on the PP-SESAME/Philae/Rosetta (ESA) (since 2011)

Permittivity Probe (PP) on board the Philae Lander of the ESA Rosetta mission: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/rosetta (objectives of PP-SESAME, in French)

Rosetta mission : http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta

• Associate Member of the Cassini RADAR Team (NASA) (since 2010)

ESA/NASA Joint press release of Le Gall et al. (2012), « Cassini's radar observes Titan's tropical dune fields » : http://sci.esa.int/cassini-huygens/49878-cassini-s-radar-observes-titan-s-tropical-dune-fields/

NASA press-release of Le Gall et al. (2010), « Rock and Roll: Titan's Gem Tumbler » : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2010-156

Cassini mission : http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html

• CoI on WISDOM/ExoMars 2018 (ESA) (since 2007)

Ground Penetrating Radar WISDOM (Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observations on Mars) on board the ESA ExoMars 2018 rover: http://exploration.esa.int/mars/45103-rover-instruments/?fbodylongid=2128

ExoMars mission : http://exploration.esa.int/mars/