Dissemination, Education & Public Outreach | 2021-2022
A book on the magnetospheres in our solar system, edited by our BIRA-IASB colleague Romain Maggiolo, has been published by Wiley for the American Geophysical Union.
Through workshops and a website, students can explore the Sun, Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, aurora and other space weather-related topics through touch and sounds. The project developed tactile images for children.
Students between 16 and 18 years old get to work as scientists by analyzing images with radio signals from meteors on the computer. Together with their teacher, they investigate the solar system in this way, and more specifically the dust it contains.
During the last weekend of September 2022, the Space Pole (the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the Royal Meteorological Institute and the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy) opened its doors to the public.
BIRA-IASB’s IT department has developed a visualization toolbox improving accessibility of the data products of our institute.