Mission Team

Mars Express Mission Team

Mission Manager: P. Martin (based at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Spain)

Project Scientist: C. Wilson (based at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands)

Principal Investigators

Instrument Acronym Principal Investigator
High-Resolution Stereo Camera HRSC D. Tirsch, Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Observatoire pour la Minéralogie, l'Eau, les Glaces et l'Activité OMEGA J. Carter, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale - IAS Orsay, France
Planetary Fourier Spectrometer PFS M. Giuranna, Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy
Analyser of Space Plasma and Energetic Atoms ASPERA M. Holmström, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden
Mars Radio Science Experiment MaRS K. Peter, Freies Institut für Planetenforschung, Cologne, Germany
Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars SPICAM F. Montmessin, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations spatiales (LATMOS), France
Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding MARSIS A. Cicchetti, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Italy
J. Plaut, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) Team Lead

A. Sánchez-Lavega, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

Interdisciplinary Scientists

IDS Topic Affiliation
F. Forget Atmosphere and surface-atmosphere interaction Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique/CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
A. Määttänen Climatology LATMOS, Université Versailles Saint‐Quentin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Guyancourt, France
F. González-Galindo Aeronomy Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Granada, Spain

Science Ground Segment Team

The Science Ground Segment Team is located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), in Villanueva de la Cañada, a suburb of Madrid, Spain.

  • Alejandro Cardesín Moinelo (Science Ground Segment Manager)
  • Federico Nespoli (Science Operations Engineer)
  • Isabel Caballero  (Science Operations Engineer)
  • Mar Sierra (Science Operations Engineer)
  • Emmanuel Grotheer (Archive Scientist)
  • Michel Breitfellner (Archive Scientist Support)
  • Carlos Muñiz (MAPPS Planning Software Support)

Ground Segment Team

The Ground Segment Team, or Mission Operations Centre (MOC), is located at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.