ESA Planetary Dust Contamination Workshop 2025

Call for Abstracts

• Opening day
  23 Jan 2025, 09:43
• Submission deadline
  No deadline

You are invited to submit short abstracts of 1-2 paragraphs.

This workshop will focus on current research and technologies relating to the contamination, effects and mitigation of planetary dust (eg. lunar, martian) on materials and space hardware, according to the themes below.

Themes

• Characterisation of dust/regolith
• Techniques for analysing dust samples
• Production of dust simulants
• Monitoring dust contamination
• Effects of dust contamination: environmental effects, effects on materials and components
• Dust mitigation techniques and technologies
• Dust testing facilities
• Modelling of dust behaviour in reduced gravity

You are invited to propose additional themes within the conference scope when submitting an abstract.

Format

Please indicate if you would prefer:

• Full length presentation (20 mins)
• Short pitch (5 mins)
• Poster

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