Introduction

The VESPA team has collected a set of tutorials covering several aspects of planetary sciences: Atmospheres, Surfaces, Magnetospheres, etc. These tutorials are provided as text (Markdown, pdf) or video.

Europlanet 2024 RI has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 871149

Text tutorials

Atmospheres

• Looking for and plotting Titan atmospheric profiles
• VIRTIS-VENUS EXPRESS
• Comparing vertical profiles in the atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM_vs_MCD)
• Matisse used with VIRTIS-VEx

Surfaces

• Mapping sparse spatial data with TOPCAT
• Several use cases on planetary surfaces with Aladin & TOPCAT
• Lunar craters with TOPCAT and Aladin
• CRISM cubes in TOPCAT and Aladin
• Using QGIS plugin to obtain vector data from VO and place into QGIS
• Identifying overlapping images in different services (HRSC vs OMEGA vs SPICAM)
• Mars body-fixed frame and representation conversions (Jupyter notebook)
• Planetary images WCS manipulations (Jupyter notebook)

Exoplanets

• Exploring Exoplanets
• Plotting exoplanets with TOPCAT and Aladin -- simple plots
• Plotting exoplanets with TOPCAT and Aladin -- advanced plots

Magnetospheres

• APIS - Auroral Planetary Images and Spectra
• Cassini Titan fly-by
• Connection of Helio Tools, AMDA & 3DView: CME impact on Venus and Earth
• Mars Global Surveyor plasma data compared with models
• ExPRES/MASER modelling of radio emissions
• Magnetodisc modelling

Spectroscopy

• CASSIS as a spectroscopy tool for VESPA
• Accessing spectral data

Other

• EPN-TAP services: Using TopCat as a client
• Using EPN-TAP as a service API via python (Encyclopedia of exoplanets)
• Accessing metadata and data of a public EPN-TAP service from Jupyter notebook (VIRTIS-VEx)
• Accessing metadata and data of a private EPN-TAP service from Jupyter notebook (VIRTIS-VEx)
• Sending an EPN-TAP query to all EPN-TAP services, and retrieving cumulative results
• Astropy procedures with planetary coordinates
• Manipulating fireball network data (Jupyter notebook)
• Retrieving files under datalink using TOPCAT

Video tutorials

These videos are legacy material from the FP7 Europlanet-RI programme (2009-2012). Some of them may be outdated - the VESPA portal interface in particular has evolved significantly, and additional functions are now avalaible in tools such as Aladin and TOPCAT.

Tracking asteroids

Predicting Solar Wind Disturbances arrival times at planets

Mars, a use case of interoperability

Auroral processes on Saturn

Exploring exoplanets

Mars, evidence of an oxygen ions "plume"

Analyzing Pluto's surface

IMPEx Tutorial Video

GIS VESPA Tutorial Video