Live demonstration of MarsSI surface data service and discussion with the team (tips, roadmap).

Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061 is a long-term foresight exercise initially proposed by the Air and Space Academy and led by scientists, engineers and technology experts heavily involved in planetary sciences and in the space exploration of the Solar System. It has now become an association and we invite planetary scientists interested in designing the future missions that will explore our Solar System in the coming decades.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is a planned NASA flagship astrophysics mission that will search for signs of life on candidate exo-Earths orbiting nearby stars in their habitable zones. HWO will also conduct transformative investigations in other areas of astrophysics, including in our Solar System. Future observations will assess the habitability of Ocean Worlds like Europa and Enceladus and conduct long-term monitoring of atmospheric activity at Venus, Mars, the giant planets, and Titan. HWO will also play a key role in characterizing fast-moving targets like potentially hazardous near-Earth objects and interstellar interlopers like 3I/ATLAS. As part of this session, we will provide an update on HWO’s ongoing development and the relevance of its potential instrument payload to Solar System and exoplanet science, and answer questions from the EPSC and DPS communities.

This will be the 2nd physical meet up for the Machine Learning Working Group within Europlanet.

Cosmic Interviews" brings female researchers in contact with female school students from Helsinki, grades 6 to 9, for an informal round of exchanges. The students will have the chance to ask in person questions about career paths and science and hear from international scientists with diverse backgrounds about how they made it in the planetary science field.

PDS Small Bodies Node Users Group Meeting (SmUG)

This meeting is limited to MMX IDEFIX rover PIs and instrument PIs.

Progress meeting of the Comet Interceptor Target Identification and Comet Environment Working Groups

Meeting of the Science Management Boards of the Hera and RAMSES mission, to discuss relevant topics of the upcoming operations of Hera at asteroid Didymos, and the status of RAMES in view of the ESA Ministerial in November.

Meeting to discuss JWST Program #8445 among Co-Is

Earlier this year, Finland became the 53rd signatory to the Artemis Accords, building on the nation’s established role in space exploration and committing to a set of principles designed to promote the beneficial use of space for humanity. The FRS Splinter Session at the 2025 Joint EPSC-DPS Meeting will focus, in part, on the Accords, as part of a broader discussion centered on: the value of international collaboration and partnership in the space science and exploration domains, the process for establishing international partnerships related to space exploration, and how international cooperation adds value to planetary science missions to make them more impactful and successful. This year’s session will take place on Tuesday, September 9th from 12:45 – 13:45 in the Triton Room (Room 24). Lunch will be provided for the first 40 session attendees.

Splinter meeting of the new association "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Planetenforschung"

M-MATISSE science discussion, open also to EPSC participants.

"The Europlanet Industry and Policy Working Groups will meet in a hybrid format (in‑person and online) to foster their re‑establishment and chart the way forward. This session will focus on defining short‑term objectives, nominating chairs, and strengthening the role of the working groups within the Europlanet community.
Regional hub industry and policy officers are especially invited, but the discussion is open to all participants interested in contributing to these groups."

ESA is currently carrying a phase A/B1 study for a Lunar  Environment Analysis Package to be deployed robotically at the lunar surface.This splinter aims at :1/informing the community on the timeline and discuss broadly the scientific scope of such a package; 2/ review and discuss potential objectives and measurements targets considering natural and anthropogenically driven environmental signatures; 3/ collect community requirements as relevant.

Join JGR Planets editorial board members to hear about journal policies, learn tips for authors and reviewers, and get your questions answered!

An informal splinter session to discuss ongoing activities for future missions to Uranus and Neptune. If you would like to present status updates, new concepts, past/future meeting reports, or raise discussion topics, please contact leigh.fletcher@le.ac.uk. Contributions discussing US, European, and other international partnership concepts are particularly encouraged.

Discussion organized by Science Attaché at the French Institute in Finland

Meeting between the RAMSES project and the RAMSES science coordination team