Ukraine astrophysicist Patricia Caravio

“I see around me many amazed scientists and dreaded industries at the end of the mission to Mars. ExoMarsAnd since the ‘next launch window towards the Red Planet will be in November 2024, and then there’s the December 2026 window, I don’t want to dream about starting the mission since the European Space Agency CEO, Josef Asbacher, said it would take three years of work to replace all the parts. made by the Russians. Talking about it with Adnkronos is astrophysicist Patricia Caravio, director of research at I.
Lawyers Without Borders– The INAF Institute for Astrophysics and Cosmology in Milan, which he also directed from 2011 to 2017. Commenting on the suspension announced by the European Space Agency of the second Mars exploration mission ExoMars on which Europe worked in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Caravio confirms: “I want to make it clear that I am very sensitive to the tragedy in Ukraine, and I know many Ukrainian scientists ” But “I don’t think stopping European space missions will help the Ukrainian scientific community, many of them lose income.” “They are certainly political and principled statements but that “They do not help scientists in Ukraine, on the contrary, they do great harm to our scientific community,” says Caravio. “It will not only take a long time, but also a lot of money to go alone to Europe on this ExoMars mission.” Still mentions the astrophysicist.

caravio which has collaborated on several international space missions and is currently participating in the European Integrated Mission, in the Italian Agile mission and in the NASA Swift and Fermi missions, all of which are in orbit and fully operational, He asserts that, “After all, the American NASA astronaut will return to Earth from the International Space Station on March 30 aboard the Russian SUEZ plane. While Europe no longer launches the ExoMars mission. ‘” All of this “sounds hard” for me to understand: it’s kind of a two-faced Janus. I repeat: as long as we buy gas from Russia, we cannot stop the flag “The Italian world continues.” Among others, this mission to Mars was the “daughter” of, among others, my husband Nani Benami (an astrophysicist and former head of the Italian Space Agency who died in May 2017), and the Italian astrophysicist Simonetta di Pippo (current director of the UNO United Outer Space Affairs ed.) who served on a task force and studied potential missions to explore Mars, as well as the daughter of another former ASI chief, Sergio de Julio, in office from 1996 to 2001.” In short, these are chapters that science has unlocked for more than 20 years. He is also a recipient of the 2021 “Enrico Fermi” award from the Italian Physics Society, says Caravio, among other positions, and is a member of the 2003 Scientific Research Group. (Andrea Aquino)