On 3 June 2013, ESA will host a small in-house event to mark ten years of success at the Red Planet. The event will take place at ESOC, home of the Mars Express mission operations team.

Mars Express over water-ice crater Credit: ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin-G.Neukum

Mars Express over water-ice crater Credit: ESA/DLR/FU-Berlin-G.Neukum

As a way to say ‘thank you’ for following our mission, we’re delighted to invite a small number of Twitter followers to ESA/ESOC on Monday, 3 June. The programme starts at 15:00 CEST and will include expert presentations from the MEX science and operations teams, followed by a small reception:

14:30 – Doors open/arrival
15:00 – Presentations, including

** Olivier Witasse: Host welcome/introduction
** Michael McKay: Mars Express in the international picture
** Alain Clochet: The industrial perspective
** Michel Denis: Mars Express 10 years of operations
Short break
** Jeff Plaut: The US role in Mars Express
** Ernst Hauber: HRSC highlights
** Agustin Chicarro: The Mars Express legacy
Open contributions

17:15 – End of formal programme
17:30 – Reception
~19:00 – Event ends

As much as we’d like to invite all 120k followers of our various Twitter channels, we can’t! 🙁 But we do have a small number of seats available and we’d like to invite you apply for an invitation via the form below. Please apply by 12:00 CEST on 29 May.

NOTE: 29.05: Applications are now closed. Thx to all who submitted!

We’ll contact the selected invitees by email around 16:00 CEST on 29 May, and will look forward to seeing you on the 3rd.

Questions/queries? Contact us via @esaoperations or @esa_de