Welcome to the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025

The EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025 will be held at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland on 7–12 September 2025.

Programme overview

Sunday

	Sun	Uranus	Triton	Other Events*
13:30 - 16:30			EPEC1 Europlanet Early Career Workshop: Improve Your Presentation Skills	CE0 DPS Committee Meeting CE1 Europlanet Committee Meeting
17:00 - 18:00		KLD1 Diversity Keynote
18:00 - 21:00	CE2 Icebreaker

*Times may differ

Monday

	Sun	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Earth	Venus	Mars	Mercury	Other Events*
08:30 - 08:55										BR1 Morning Briefing
08:55 - 09:20				KLD2 Keynote (SB) Asteroid Apophis 2029 Encounter
09:30 - 10:30	TP4-D Exploring Venus	OPS2-A Icy Moons and Ocean Worlds in the Era of Juice and Europa Clipper	ODAA5 Best Practices in Cross-Disciplinary Research Collaborations for Planetary Science	EXOA19-A AI for exoplanet and brown dwarf studies	EXOA14 Transit timing trends and light curve archiving	SB7 Advances in Photopolarimetry and Spectropolarimetry of Solar System Small Bodies	MITM1-A Mission concepts and payloads for future small bodies’ exploration	OPS5-A Exploration of Titan	MITM6 Robotic Concepts in Astronomy and Planetary Exploration
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Opening ceremony EPEC2 Europlanet Early-Career General Assembly
Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00	TP4-B Exploring Venus	OPS2-B Icy Moons and Ocean Worlds in the Era of Juice and Europa Clipper	TP3-A Impact processes in the Solar System	MITM19 Apophis T-4 years	SB21 Lucy Main Belt Asteroid Flybys	SB15-A Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets	MITM1-B Mission concepts and payloads for future small bodies’ exploration	OPS5-B Exploration of Titan	EXOA16 Advances in Terrestrial Planet Formation
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	TP4-C Exploring Venus	OPS2-C Icy Moons and Ocean Worlds in the Era of Juice and Europa Clipper	TP3-B Impact processes in the Solar System	SB10-A Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres	ODAA4 Professional-Amateur collaborations	MITM3 Open Science and Big Data for the Planets and the Heliosphere	SB22 Understanding the internal structure of kilometric-size asteroids	OPS5-C Exploration of Titan	MITM2-A Planetary Missions, Instrumentations, and mission concepts
18:00 - 19:30	Monday Poster Session

*Times may differ

Tuesday

	Sun	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Earth	Venus	Mars	Mercury	Triton	Other Events*
08:30 - 08:55											BR2 Morning Briefing
08:55 - 09:20				KLD3 Keynote (TP): Ice-Free Surface Water Activity Through Mars’ Climate Transition
09:30 - 10:30	TP4-D Exploring Venus	OPS2-D Icy Moons and Ocean Worlds in the Era of Juice and Europa Clipper	EXOA19-B AI for exoplanet and brown dwarf studies	TP13 Planetary Dynamics	TP1-A Mars Surface and Interior	EXOA10 The emergence of Life in our Solar System and Beyond	MITM2-B Planetary Missions, Instrumentations, and mission concepts	OPS4-A Exploring the Saturn system	TP9-A On the Quest to Solve Mercury's Secrets
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	TP4-E Exploring Venus	OPS2-E Icy Moons and Ocean Worlds in the Era of Juice and Europa Clipper	TP3-C Impact processes in the Solar System	SB10-B Observing and modelling meteors in planetary atmospheres	TP8 The Multi-Scale Physics of Surface-Bounded Exosphere and Surface Interactions	EXOA11-A Exoplanet characterization of (super-)Earths and sub-Neptunes	MITM2-C Planetary Missions, Instrumentations, and mission concepts	OPS4-B Exploring the Saturn system	TP9-B On the Quest to Solve Mercury's Secrets	EPEC3 Europlanet Early-Career Speed Science-ing	SM9 SM10
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break		CE4 Europlanet GA	Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:50				KLD4 Debate (MITM) Strengthening the Role of Planetary Science in Astronomy Missions						SM11	SM17
15:00 - 16:00	TP4-F Exploring Venus	SB4-A Sample Return: in-progress analyses and perspectives	TP7-A Ionospheres of unmagnetized or weakly magnetized bodies	SB8-A Active small bodies	MITM4 Open Science Across the Planetary Data Lifecycle	MITM18-A Planetary Defense: space missions, observations, modeling and experiments	MITM2-D Planetary Missions, Instrumentations, and mission concepts	OPS4-C Exploring the Saturn system	TP9-C On the Quest to Solve Mercury's Secrets
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	TP4-G Exploring Venus	SB4-B Sample Return	TP7-B Ionospheres of unmagnetized or weakly magnetized bodies	SB8-B Active small bodies	MITM7-A On the radar: From small bodies, to moons and planets with ground- and space-based radars	MITM18-B Planetary Defense	EXOA7 Astrobiology	OPS4-D Exploring the Saturn system	TP9-D On the Quest to Solve Mercury's Secrets
18:00 - 19:30	Tuesday Poster Session				EPEC4 Europlanet Early-Career Panel	Tuesday Poster Session
19:00 - 22:00				CE5 E-SPIN: Europlanet SPace Innovation Night							CE6 Open Mic Night

*Times may differ

Wednesday

	Sun	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Earth	Venus	Mars	Mercury	Triton	Other Events*
08:30 - 08:55											BR3 Morning Briefing
08:55 - 09:20				KLD5 Keynote (EXOA): Characterizing potential habitable exoplanets
09:30 - 10:30	TP2-A Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies	EXOA11-B Exoplanet characterization of (super-)Earths and sub-Neptunes	ODAA3 Diversity and Inclusiveness in Planetary Sciences	OPS1-A Unveiling the Jovian Moons: Juno’s view of Io, Europa, and Ganymede	MITM7-B On the radar	SB5-A Physical properties and composition of TNOs and Centaurs	MITM15-A Solar System Science from JWST	ODAA2 At the convergence of art and science	TP9-E On the Quest to Solve Mercury's Secrets
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	TP2-B Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies	EXOA11-C Exoplanet characterization of (super-)Earths and sub-Neptunes	SB11-A The Rubin Observatory Census of the Solar System	OPS1-B Unveiling the Jovian Moons: Juno’s view of Io, Europa, and Ganymede	MITM7-C On the radar	SB5-B Physical properties and composition of TNOs and Centaurs	MITM10-A Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions	SB8-C Active small bodies: dynamics, activity, and genetic links	TP10-A Planetary Cryospheres: Ices in the Solar System		SM1
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break		CE7 DPS members meeting	Lunch Break						SM12	SM2 SM8
14:00 - 14:50	CE8 Europlanet Medal Lectures				EPEC5 Europlanet Early-Career Panel: ESA-NASA Careers (13:30-15:00)
15:00 - 16:00	TP2-C Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies	SB6-A Surface and interiors of small bodies, meteorite parent bodies, and icy moons	SB11-A The Rubin Observatory Census of the Solar System	OPS1-C Unveiling the Jovian Moons: Juno’s view of Io, Europa, and Ganymede	OPS4-E Exploring the Saturn system	SB5-C Physical properties and composition of TNOs and Centaurs	OPS7-A Aerosols and clouds in planetary atmospheres	MITM8-A Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces	TP10-B Planetary Cryospheres: Ices in the Solar System	CE9 Diversity round table	SM3
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	TP2-D Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies	SB6-B Surface and interiors of small bodies, meteorite parent bodies, and icy moons	TP5-A Planetary volcanism, tectonics, and seismicity	MITM9 Planetary in-situ measurements	OPS2-F Icy Moons and Ocean Worlds in the Era of Juice and Europa Clipper	SB5-D Physical properties and composition of TNOs and Centaurs	OPS7-B Aerosols and clouds in planetary atmospheres	OPS5-D Exploration of Titan	SB15-B Computational and experimental astrophysics of small bodies and planets	SM13	SM4

*Times may differ

Thursday

	Sun	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Earth	Venus	Mars	Mercury	Other Events*
08:30 - 08:55										BR4 Morning Briefing
08:55 - 09:20				KLD6 Keynote (OPS): JWST Observes the CO2-rich Surfaces of Uranus’ Large Moons
09:30 - 10:30	TP0 General Session of TP	SB6-C Surface and interiors of small bodies, meteorite parent bodies, and icy moons	ODAA1 Communicating Planetary Science in the 21st century	OPS3-A Jupiter’s Magnetosphere in the Juno Era and beyond: Insights from In-Situ and remote sensing	MITM5-A Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Planetary Science	TP6-A Past, present and future landed missions on Mars and its satellites	OPS6-A Ice Giant Systems: Science and Exploration	EXOA13-A Bridging geosciences and astronomy to interpret rocky (exo)planet observations	MITM15-B Solar System Science from JWST
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	TP2-E Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies	SB6-D Surface and interiors of small bodies, meteorite parent bodies, and icy moons	TP7-C Ionospheres of unmagnetized or weakly magnetized bodies	OPS3-B Jupiter’s Magnetosphere in the Juno Era and beyond: Insights from In-Situ and remote sensing	MITM5-B Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Planetary Science	TP6-B Past, present and future landed missions on Mars and its satellites	OPS6-B Ice Giant Systems: Science and Exploration	OPS9 Giant Planet Interiors, Atmospheres, and Evolution	MITM15-C Solar System Science from JWST
Lunch Break			CE11 Women in Planetary Sciences (WIPS)	Lunch Break						SM16
14:00 - 14:50	CE10 DPS Awards Ceremony
15:00 - 16:00	TP2-F Atmospheres and Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies	EXOA0-A General Session of EXOA	ODAA0 General Session of ODAA	OPS3-C Jupiter’s Magnetosphere in the Juno Era and beyond: Insights from In-Situ and remote sensing	MITM20 2024 YR4	TP6-C Past, present and future landed missions on Mars and its satellites	OPS6-C Ice Giant Systems: Science and Exploration	ODAA6 Open planetary science for effective knowledge co-creation and dissemination	EXOA9-A Exploring the chemical foundations of rocky exoplanets	SM7
Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	TP1-B Mars Surface and Interior	SB3-A Observational investigations of comets	TP11-A Lunar Space Environment	EXOA18 Investigating Habitability and Biosignatures within Exoplanet Atmospheres	SB0 Small Body Dynamics	EXOA12 Planet formation and evolution in solar system analogs	OPS6-D Ice Giant Systems: Science and Exploration	MITM8-B Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces	EXOA13-B Bridging geosciences and astronomy to interpret rocky (exo)planet observations	SM7 SM14
18:00 - 19:30	Thursday Poster Session				EPEC6 Europlanet Early-Career: Science Flash	Thursday Poster Session
19:00 - 20:30				CE12 Stakeholders Forum						EPEC7 Europlanet Early-Career: Social event (19:30-00:00)

*Times may differ

Friday

	Sun	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Earth	Venus	Mars	Mercury	Other Events*
08:30 - 08:55										BR5 Morning Briefing
08:55 - 09:20				KLD7 Keynote (ODAA)
09:30 - 10:30	TP1-C Mars Surface and Interior	SB3-B Observational investigations of comets	TP5-B Planetary volcanism, tectonics, and seismicity	OPS6-E Ice Giant Systems: Science and Exploration	MITM11 Synergies between space missions and ground-based observations	SB12-A Exploring the Martian Moons	EXOA8-A Future and current instruments to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and their environment	EXOA9-B Exploring the chemical foundations of rocky exoplanets	MITM10-B Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	TP1-D Mars Surface and Interior	SB3-C Observational investigations of comets	TP11-B Lunar Space Environment	OPS8-A Jupiter's and Saturn's Atmospheres	MITM11 Synergies between space missions and ground-based observations	SB1 Interstellar objects	EXOA8-B Future and current instruments to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and their environment	EXOA15 Recasting the Cosmic Shoreline in light of JWST	MITM10-C Laboratory experiments in support of ground observations and space missions
Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00	TP1-E Mars Surface and Interior	SB3-D Observational investigations of comets	EXOA0-B General Session of EXOA	OPS8-B Jupiter's and Saturn's Atmospheres	EXOA17 Dynamics and stability of extrasolar systems	SB12-B Exploring the Martian Moons	MITM18-C Planetary Defense: space missions, observations, modeling and experiments	MITM8-C Imagery, photometry, and spectroscopy of small bodies and planetary surfaces	MITM14 Exploiting Gaia to study minor bodies of the Solar System
CE13 Farewell Event

*Times may differ

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Scope & Aims

The Scientific Organizing Committee of the EPSC-DPS 2025 invites all planetary scientists to participate in the congress, submit contributions to the topical sessions and share their research with their colleagues. The congress will offer virtual elements to access oral and poster sessions.

Virtual participation information

The intention of the congress is to cover a broad area of science topics related to planetary science and planetary missions. The programme of this year’s joint EPSC-DPS will contain oral and poster sessions, as well as workshops and panel discussions. The ethos is to create a simple, flexible, and inclusive meeting that provides multiple opportunities for interaction, scientific discussion, and networking.

We are looking forward to meeting everyone at EPSC-DPS 2025 in Helsinki!

About the Europlanet Science Congress

The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC, formerly the European Planetary Science Congress) is the annual meeting place of the Europlanet community, which invites contributions from planetary scientists from all over the world.

First held in Berlin in 2006 and regularly attracting 1,200 participants, EPSC is the largest planetary science meeting held in Europe. It covers the entire range of planetary sciences with an extensive mix of talks, workshops and poster sessions while providing a unique space for networking and exchange of experiences.

About the joint meetings with DPS

In 2011 EPSC joined forces for the first time with the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) and they held their first joint meeting in Nantes, France. The intent of the joint meetings is not only to connect the European and US planetary science communities, but also to consolidate two major meetings, which should motivate planetary scientists from all over the globe to attend. This was followed by the DPS-led joint meeting in Pasadena, California in 2016; the EPSC-DPS 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland; and the return to the States for the DPS-EPSC 2023 in San Antonio, Texas. This year will mark the third iteration of a joint Europe-based meeting. Given the record number of participants at the last two EPSCs we expect to exceed 2000 participants this year. EPSC and DPS have formalized their joint endeavours via a Memorandum of Understanding that ensures shared benefits for the members of both societies.

The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS)

The DPS is a Division of the American Astronomical Society and the world’s largest professional society of planetary scientists representing their interests at all stages of their careers. The DPS promotes the advancement of planetary science by

hosting meetings,
encouraging support for robust public funding,
supporting quality, affordable education,
advocating for dark skies,
pushing for fair wages and social benefits,
promoting equitable and inclusive conditions,
creating a harassment-free, welcoming, and professional climate
increasing public awareness and interest in planetary science, and
fostering collaborations with international colleagues.

Please visit the DPS website for more information.

Official language

The official language of the EPSC-DPS2025 is English. Simultaneous interpretation is not provided. It is therefore expected that authors are able to present their research in the English language.