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Olivier Witasse is affiliated with the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on fields within physics and astronomy, contributing extensively to the subfields of astronomy and astrophysics, aerospace engineering, atmospheric science, molecular biology, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their scientific work centers on several main topics including astro and planetary science, planetary science and exploration, solar and space plasma dynamics, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, space science and extraterrestrial life, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Witasse has published significant research articles in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Space Science Reviews
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Planetary and Space Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets

Some of their recent notable papers are:

  • VLT/SPHERE imaging survey of the largest main-belt asteroids: Final results and synthesis, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The violent collisional history of aqueously evolved (2) Pallas, 2020, Nature Astronomy
  • An Active Plume Eruption on Europa During Galileo Flyby E26 as Indicated by Energetic Proton Depletions, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • CME Magnetic Structure and IMF Preconditioning Affecting SEP Transport, 2021, Space Weather
  • Geophysical Characterization of the Interiors of Ganymede, Callisto and Europa by ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, 2024, Space Science Reviews

Witasse frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Beatriz Sánchez-Cano
  • Yoshifumi Futaana
  • S. Barabash
  • N. Altobelli
  • Hauke Hußmann

The scope of Olivier Witasse's research includes exploring interactions in planetary environments and contributions to understanding the interiors of icy moons and asteroid belt objects, evident through the range and focus of their recent publications.

Best Publications

  • Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover

    Jorge L. Vago;Frances Westall;Andrew J. Coates;Ralf Jaumann

  • An overview of the descent and landing of the Huygens probe on Titan

    Jean-Pierre Lebreton;Olivier Witasse;Claudio Sollazzo;Thierry Blancquaert

  • Venus Express—The first European mission to Venus

    H. Svedhem;D.V. Titov;D. Mccoy;J.-P. Lebreton

  • Discovery of an aurora on Mars.

    Jean-Loup Bertaux;François Leblanc;Olivier Witasse;Eric Quemerais

  • Venus Express science planning

    D.V. Titov;H. Svedhem;D. Koschny;R. Hoofs

  • ESA ExoMars program: The next step in exploring Mars

    J. Vago;O. Witasse;H. Svedhem;P. Baglioni

  • Interplanetary coronal mass ejection observed at STEREO-A, Mars, comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Saturn, and New Horizons en route to Pluto: Comparison of its Forbush decreases at 1.4, 3.1, and 9.9 AU

    Olivier Witasse;Beatriz Sánchez-Cano;M. L. Mays;P. Kajdič

  • Martian dayglow as seen by the SPICAM UV spectrograph on Mars Express

    François Leblanc;Jean-Yves Chaufray;Jean Lilensten;Olivier Witasse

  • Habitat of early life: Solar X‐ray and UV radiation at Earth's surface 4–3.5 billion years ago

    Ingrid Cnossen;Ingrid Cnossen;Jorge Sanz-Forcada;Fabio Favata;Olivier Witasse

  • Venus as a more Earth-like planet

    Håkan Svedhem;Dmitry V. Titov;Fredric W. Taylor;Olivier Witasse

  • Doubly-charged ions in the planetary ionospheres: a review

    Roland Thissen;Olivier Witasse;Odile Dutuit;Odile Dutuit;Cyril Simon Wedlund

  • Venus Express mission

    H. Svedhem;D. V. Titov;F. W. Taylor;O. Witasse

  • An updated climatology of thermospheric neutral winds and F region ion drifts above Millstone Hill

    M. J. Buonsanto;O. G. Witasse

  • Prediction of a CO22+ layer in the atmosphere of Mars

    O. Witasse;O. Dutuit;J. Lilensten;R. Thissen

  • Observations of the nightside ionosphere of Mars by the Mars Express Radio Science Experiment (MaRS)

    Paul Withers;M. O. Fillingim;R. J. Lillis;B. Häusler

  • Overview of the coordinated ground-based observations of Titan during the Huygens mission

    Olivier Witasse;Jean-Pierre Lebreton;Michael K. Bird;Robindro Dutta-Roy

  • Paucity of Tagish Lake-like parent bodies in the Asteroid Belt and among Jupiter Trojans

    P. Vernazza;D. Fulvio;R. Brunetto;J.P. Emery

  • SPICAM on Mars Express: A 10 year in-depth survey of the Martian atmosphere

    Franck Montmessin;Oleg Korablev;Oleg Korablev;Franck Lefèvre;Jean-Loup Bertaux

  • Observations of aurorae by SPICAM ultraviolet spectrograph on board Mars Express: Simultaneous ASPERA‐3 and MARSIS measurements

    F. Leblanc;O. Witasse;J. Lilensten;R. A. Frahm

  • VLT/SPHERE imaging survey of the largest main-belt asteroids: Final results and synthesis

    P. Vernazza;Marin Ferrais;L. Jorda;J. Hanuš

  • Venus Express: Scientific goals, instrumentation, and scenario of the mission

    D. V. Titov;H. Svedhem;D. Mccoy;J. P. Lebreton

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Lester
Mark Lester University of Leicester
Franck Montmessin
Franck Montmessin University of Paris-Saclay
Wlodek Kofman
Wlodek Kofman Grenoble Alpes University
François Leblanc
François Leblanc Sorbonne University
Emmanuel Jehin
Emmanuel Jehin University of Liège
Laurent Jorda
Laurent Jorda Aix-Marseille University
Jean-Loup Bertaux
Jean-Loup Bertaux Atmospheres Laboratory Environments, Observations Spatiales
Stas Barabash
Stas Barabash Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Roberto Orosei
Roberto Orosei National Institute for Astrophysics
Paul Withers
Paul Withers Boston University

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