Un simulateur d’aurores polaires
The teatchers and the students of the Physics technical University in Bourges, in the center of France, organized the 5th of April, 2013, a large exhibition devoted to the sciences, in order to get the undergraduates interested in sciences. Tenth of experiments were shown for hundreds of pupils. A very inspiring ambiance.
The Planeterrella was of course present. The tale of this enthusiastic day was broadcasted on the local news in the FR3 channel.
The Planeterrella at the IUT of Bourges, in the Centre region (France) is led by a team of great dynamism. The first light took place at the Science Festival in October 2013, and already two articles talk about it in the Berry Republican newspaper.
In the edition of October 8 :
And that of 12 :
The team of Alcala is very dynamic : it lent its Planeterrella to the second Spanish television channel to explain the auroras :
http://www.rtve.es/television/20141017/angel-martin-presentara-2-nuevo-show-divulgacion-cientifica-orbita-laika/1031564.shtml
On the following image, we see Antonio Guerrero Ortega on the left who, with Consuelo Cid, was the driving force to create a Planeterrella Alcala.
Planeterrella had the honor of a long article in the mainstream scientific magazine Science et Avenir (in French) in June 2014. The journalist Audrey Boehly has shown extraordinary patience and kindness to understand and illustrate the experiment in a superb way. The newspaper gave us approval to let this article for download on this site. Thank you !
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When the cycle of Planeterrella demonstrations happened in the Museum of Science and Techniques of Oslo in September 2014, a blog specializing in science made the following report :
http://forskning.no/fysikk-geofag-universet-romforskning-forskningsformidling/2014/10/jord-og-sol-i-en-glassboks
A local newspaper reported on these demonstrations, and the visit made to Birkeland museum.
Once again, it is the dynamism of Mansongsong Manual which earned the honor of a communication in the world’s largest geophysical meeting. The abstract can be read on :
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper27663.html
or downloaded here ...
Eva van den Berg is a journalist of extraordinary dedication : she translated her article in English in just to make me proofread ! We talked a lot on the phone. I told her to interview my friends in Alcala, while my friends in Alcala were telling her to interview me ...
The beautiful illustrations are due to the great photographer, aurora hunter Olivier Grunewald.
The Planeterrella is not the only topics of this voluminous article. The journalist Emilie Martin, accompanied us for an Arctic mission devoted to auroral observations. The Planeterrella was of course the subject of several discussions between my old friend Mathieu and me : she has kindly reported in his article.
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Astronomy magazine is a monthly news magazine full of information on astronomy, mainly towards an audience of amateur astronomers. It includes tests and comparisons of equipment, observation tips, feature articles on astro ... In April 2015, Astronomy magazine published an article on the aurora with an extract that is available here on the Planeterrella
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