WINTER SCHOOL 2026 PROGRAM

1^st Day

Monday - 26 January 2026

Planetary Maps

09:00 - 09:15
Introduction to Europlanet / Welcome
Stavro Ivanovski

09:15 - 09:30
Introduction to planetary geology and the planetary mapping initiatives
Matteo Massironi 

09:30 - 10:00
Introduction to planetary map projections
Giacomo Nodjoumi

10:00 - 10:30
Introduction to base mapping data sets
Silvia Bertoli

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:15
Free open-source software for geospatial analysis
Alessandro Frigeri

11:15 - 11:45
Introduction to QGIS
Luca Penasa, Adriano Tullo

11:45 - 12:30
Introduction to Mappy
Luca Penasa, Adriano Tullo

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
PANCO tool for pan-sharpening of multi and hyperspectral images - Adriano Tullo

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
ASI SSDC: the Matisse toolset - Giacomo Nodjoumi

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
The Multi-Temporal Database of Planetary Image Data (MUTED) - Thomas Heyer

15:30 - 16:00  Break

2^nd Day

Tuesday - 27 January 2026

Caves and Tubes on Mars

09:00 - 09:45
Introduction to Mars
Pierre-Antoine Tesson 

09:45 - 10:30
Introduction to lava flows and tubes
Francesco Sauro

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30
Martian volcanism
Pierre-Antoine Tesson

11:30 - 12:30
Mapping Hands on
Francesco Sauro, Alessandro Marraffa, Pierre-Antoine Tesson

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Lava tubes on Venus - Barbara De Toffoli, Leonardo Carrer

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
Space Architecture - Francesco Romio

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
Microbiology in Caves - Martina Cappelletti

15:30 - 16:00  Break

 3^rd Day

Wednesday​ - 28 January 2026

Landing Sites on the Moon

09:00 - 09:45
Introduction to the Moon
Harald Hiesinger

09:45 - 10:30
Landing site selection principles
Carolyn Van der Bogert

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30
Lunar landing sites
Wajiha Iqbal

11:30 - 12:30
Mapping Hands on 
Giacomo Melchiori, Gloria Tognon

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Tools for landing site characterization - Eloy Steve

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
Thermal models of lunar pits - Pamela Cambianica

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
NASA's Artemis program - Trent Hare

15:30 - 16:00  Break

4^th Day

Thursday​ - 29 January 2026

Icy Mars

09:00 - 09:45
Introduction to water and ice on Mars
Barbara De Toffoli

09:45 - 10:30
Introduction to glacial landforms
Ernst Hauber

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:30
Martian periglacial landforms
Costanza Morino

11:30 - 12:30
Mapping Hands on
Silvia Bertoli, Nicole Costa

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Seminar Slot 1
Below the ice of Martian polar caps - Roberto Orosei

14:30 - 15:00
Seminar Slot 2
Permanent Shadowed Regions on the Moon and Mercury - Ariel Deutsch

15:00 - 15:30
Seminar Slot 3
Icy moons - Alice Lucchetti

15:30 - 16:00  Break

5^th Day

Friday - 30 January 2026

 Terrestrial analogues

09:00 - 09:30
Terrestrial analogues exploration
Claudio Pernechele, Javier Suarez 

09:30 - 09:45
VRGS introduction
David Hodgetts

09:45 - 10:30
VRGS demo Hands on
Susanna Tonoian, David Hodgetts

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30
VRGS Hands on
Susanna Tonoian, David Hodgetts, Matteo Massironi, Alessandro Marraffa

12:30 - 14:00  Break

14:00 - 14:30
Q&A time

14:30 - 15:00
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