Unipi Team Leader: Prof. Luigi Folco, Dip. di Scienze della Terra
A multidisciplinary team of experts from industry and academia are developing a roadmap for a European Sample Curation Facility, designed to curate precious samples returned from Solar System exploration missions to asteroids, Mars, the Moon and comets.
The project concentrates on six key themes:
- Curation of extraterrestrial materials;
- Planetary Protection;
- Infrastructure requirements;
- Instruments and methods for sample handling, preparation and analysis;
- Analogue samples as proxies for extraterrestrial materials;
- Technologies for sample reception and transport.
Coordinator
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LONDON (United Kingdom)
Other participants
- THE OPEN UNIVERSITY (United Kingdom)
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND (United Kingdom)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (United Kingdom)
- THALES ALENIA SPACE (United Kingdom)
- DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FÜR LUFT- UND RAUMFAHRT (Germany)
- SENCKENBERG NATURMUSEUM (Germany)
- NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN (Austria)
- UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (Belgium)
- MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE PARIS (France)
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE DE Orléans (France)
- ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LYON (France)
- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA, OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI (Italy)
- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA, ISTITUTO DI ASTROFISICA E PLANETOLOGIA SPAZIALI (Italy)
Start date 01/01/2015
End date 30/12/2018
Duration 36 months
Project cost 1.999.999 €
Project funding 1.999.999 €
Unipi quota 20.625 €
Call title H2020-COMPET-2014
Unipi role Partner
Project website www.euro-cares.eu