Mars Express Data Workshops:

11-15 June 2007: HRSC & OMEGA
ESAC, Villanueva de Cañada (Madrid, Spain)

Link to 1st MEX data workshop page

21-23 May 2008: HRSC & OMEGA
Washington University, St. Louis (USA)

Link to 2nd MEX data workshop page

9-11 June 2008: MARSIS & MaRS
ESAC, Villanueva de Cañada (Madrid, Spain)

Link to 3rd MEX data workshop page

 2009 (TBC): PFS & SPICAM
ESAC, Villanueva de Cañada (Madrid, Spain)

Purpose and scope:

Data collected by instruments on board Mars Express (MEX) are available to the science community through the Planetary Science Archive (PSA). In order to facilitate the access, use, processing and analysis of these data, ESA is organizing training workshops for the science community at large.

Mars Express Data Workshops are intended to provide users of the PSA and scientists interested in exploring and using ESA MEX data the possibiilty to meet members of Instrument Teams and get experience with basic data handling, processing and integration. Members of Instrument Teams are providing support & insights to new MEX data users, with both scientific & technical lectures and hands-on. MEX data workshops have no registration fee.

The program of each workshop and relevant information will be posted on this page.

When and where:

The next Mars Express Data Workshops shall focus on PFS and SPICAM data, and will be organised at the ESAC establishment of ESA in Villafranca, Spain.

Date : To be defined. 

Instructors

Instructors from instrument teams will lead lectures, tutorials and hands-on sessions.

Programme:

The programme of the next workshop is not finalised.

The workshops will include both lectures, tutorials and hands-on, allowing interaction beween Instrument Team members and attendants.

The maximum number of participants for each workshop is 20 (on a first-come, first-served basis).

Tutorials, lecture materials, sample data will be available after the workshops for users who could not attend them. 

User feedback:

It is possible to use this form to provide feedback on the needs/preferences for the next editions of the workshops. Please specify:

• instrument(s) of interest
• topic of interest
• software tools used

How to get to ESAC:

Instructions on how to reach ESAC are available on this page, which also contains links to various accomodation and transportation possibilities.

Contacts:

For further information, please contact:

Olivier Witasse European Space Agency ESTEC, The Netherlands Tel. +31-71-565-8015 e-mail