The mobile exhibition Comètes : aux origines des systèmes planétaires was created in 2015, even while the Rosetta space probe was observing in the close vicinity of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko and furnishing a veritable harvest of information on these fascinating bodies.
This exhibition was created by the Laboratoire d’Excellence ESEP (Exploration Spatiale des Environnements Planétaires - Space exploration of planetary environnements), deeply involved in the Rosetta mission.
ESEP is a network of 9 laboratories, which have grouped together their expertise in the domain of planetary envionments and theirknow-how in the space sector.
Shown for the first time in the musée de l’Air et de l’Espace du Bourget (the Bourget Air and Space Museum), this exhibition has been recast in a new, mobile version so that many more people can benefit from the exploits of the French laboratories involved in this space mission.
A catalogue of the 10 mobile exhibitions
This new exhibition has been added to the other mobile exhibitions which the Paris Observatory proposes to schools, media libraries and associations (details can be found here).
The catalogue now includes 10 exhibitions, which are all easily transported and set up:
- Comètes : aux origines des systèmes planétaires
- Gaia. Le ciel en profondeur
- Le Système solaire
- Le Système solaire pour les scolaires
- Une brève histoire de l’Univers
- Cosmos, un cheminement jusqu’aux confins de l’Univers
- Hubble : un regard
- La météorologie spatiale
- Du Soleil à la Terre
- CoRoT - Les coulisses d’une mission spatiale
These exhibitions were created with the help of the best specialists of the Paris Observatory and also in some cases with that of other laboratories of the Ile-de-France:particular care has been taken to ensure the quality of the information presented in these exhibitions.
They are appreciated by the teachers who wish to enrich their pedagogic projects, and also by associationswishing to fill out thir cultural programmes.
Regular borrowers include the Paléospace at Villers-sur-Mer, the Parc aux Étoiles at Triel-sur-Seine, the Lycée La Tournelle at La Garenne-Colombes, the Lycée Dupuy de Lôme at Lorient, the Collège Paul Bert at Cachan, the Cabourg school at Vanves, the Les Popines association at Rillé, the Mairie de Mellac,the Planète Sciences association and the Médico Educatif F. Huon Society at Quimperlé. The Paris Observatory thanks them for their trust.
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