Bernard Foing
{{Infobox scientist
|image=Bernard Foing.jpg
|alt=A picture of a male squating next to a Martian lander. He is wearing a red styled tie over a white collared shirt. In the backdrop is a Martian landscape.
|birth_place=France
|alma_mater=Ecole Normale Supérieure of Education & Technology
|known_for=Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1
|spouse=Pascale Ehrenfreund
}}
Bernard Foing is a French scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA),{{cite web
| url = http://lunarscience2009.arc.nasa.gov/node/167
| title = Synthesis of SMART-1 lunar results for future exploration | Lunar Science Forum 2009
| publisher = NASA
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
| url-status = dead
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090731140247/http://lunarscience2009.arc.nasa.gov/node/167
| archivedate = 2009-07-31
}} Executive Director of the [http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=34125 International Lunar Exploration Working Group] (ILEWG){{cite web| url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080403-am-moon-development.html|title=Moon Seen as Laboratory for Life|date=3 April 2008 |publisher=Space.com|accessdate=2009-08-29}} and was Principal Project Scientist for SMART-1, the first European mission to the Moon.{{cite web|url=http://www.jaxa.jp/article/special/lunar/foing_e.html
|title=Our 8th Continent, the Moon|publisher=Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
|accessdate=2009-08-30}}
He is also a research professor at the VU Amsterdam and at Florida Tech.{{Cite web| title = Bernard Foing - Personal Profiles - Cosmos| accessdate = 2021-04-14| url = https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/personal-profiles/bernard-foing}}
Biography
Born in France,{{cite web| url=http://desert.marssociety.org/fs08/crew77/| archive-url=https://archive.today/20090901032938/http://desert.marssociety.org/fs08/crew77/| url-status=dead| archive-date=2009-09-01| title=MDRS: Crew 77 Biographies| publisher=The Mars Society| accessdate=2009-08-29}} Bernard Foing has a PhD in Astrophysics and Space Techniques.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615708/n984628/n984631/72050.html|title=SMART-1 Mission Operations and Lunar Results|publisher=China National Space Administration|accessdate=2009-08-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402221030/http://www.cnsa.gov.cn/n615708/n984628/n984631/72050.html|archivedate=2011-04-02}} He worked 3 years in Chile as an astronomer for the European Southern Observatory (ESO), the French embassy, and as Professor of Astrophysics. A researcher at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1986,{{cite web
| url = http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=TOP&page=intseminars2006
| title = RSSD - Internal seminars 2006
| publisher = European Space Agency
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}} Foing obtained the Habilitation for direction of research in 1990. At ESA since 1993, he is Senior Research Coordinator at the Research and Scientific Support Department. He was president of ILEWG in 1998-2000 and now is their Executive Director. Foing collaborates with his wife, Pascale Ehrenfreund of the German Aerospace Center, in some of his research.{{cite journal|last1=Ehrenfreund|first1=Pascale|title=A Multiple-Choice Essay|journal=Astrobiology|date=8 November 2011|volume=11|issue=8|pages=737–741 |url=https://www.gwu.edu/~spi/assets/docs/2011%20AST%20Pascale.pdf|accessdate=28 November 2015|doi=10.1089/ast.2011.0697|bibcode=2011AsBio..11..737E|pmid=22007739}}
SMART-1
Foing is known as the father of SMART-1.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3340048/Ill-grow-marigolds-on-the-moon-says-scientist.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112090900/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3340048/Ill-grow-marigolds-on-the-moon-says-scientist.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-11-12|title=I'll grow marigolds on the moon, says scientist|work=The Daily Telegraph
|accessdate=2009-08-30 | location=London | first=Roger | last=Highfield | date=2008-04-17}} Serving as Principal Project Scientist from conception in 1996, SMART-1 was the first European mission to the Moon.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4015227.stm|title=Europe probe arrives at the Moon|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=2009-08-29 | date=2004-11-16}} SMART-1's goals were both technological and scientific.{{cite web
| url = http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMBTIYO4HD_UnitedKingdom_0.html
| title = ESA Portal - United Kingdom - SMART-1: the lunar adventure begins
| publisher = European Space Agency
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}} First in a series of "Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology", SMART-1 was used to test new state-of-the art instruments such as a solar-electric primary propulsion system.{{cite web
| url = http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=10
| title = ESA Science & Technology: SMART-1
| publisher = European Space Agency
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}} SMART-1 also performed scientific observations of the Moon including determining the Moon's mineralogical composition and the presence and quantity of water in the craters at the Moon's south pole. Launched on September 27, 2003,{{cite web
| url = http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060903_smart-1_impact.html
| title = SMART-1 Space Probe Slams into the Moon
| date = 3 September 2006
| publisher = Space.com
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}} SMART-1 entered lunar orbit in November 2004{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-09-17-moon-mysteries_N.htm| title=The enduring mysteries of the moon| publisher=USA Today| accessdate=2009-08-29 | date=2007-09-17| first=Charles Q.| last=Choi}} and continued orbit until it was intentionally crashed into the lunar surface on September 3, 2006.{{cite web| url=http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/620/spacecraft-crashes-moon| title=Spacecraft crashes onto Moon| publisher=Cosmos| accessdate=2009-08-29| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730024914/http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/620/spacecraft-crashes-moon| archivedate=2008-07-30}}{{cite web
| url=http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMV386LARE_0.html| title=ESA - SMART-1 - Intense final hours for SMART-1| publisher=European Space Agency| accessdate=2009-08-30}} Said Foing, "SMART-1 data are helping to choose future landing sites for robotic and possible manned missions, and its instruments are upgraded and being flown again on the next generation of lunar satellites."{{cite web
| url = http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMEZ2N0LYE_0.html
| title = SMART-1's bridge to the future exploration of the Moon
| publisher = European Space Agency
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}}
Mars Express
Foing is an organic chemist for Mars Express,{{cite news
| url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/02/MNG4I5VJSC1.DTL
| title = Methane found in Mars atmosphere / Scientist offers a few theories for presence of gas exuded by life forms
| publisher = San Francisco Chronicle
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
| first=David
| last=Perlman
| date=2004-04-02
}} a space exploration mission by the European Space Agency.{{cite web
| url = http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEM8ZB474OD_0.html
| title = Mars Express sees its first water
| publisher = European Space Agency
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}} Launched on June 2, 2004,{{cite news
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2955910.stm
| title = Europe goes to Mars
| publisher = BBC News
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
| date=2003-06-03}} Mars Express is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. Foing is also co-investigator of the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) for the Mars Express orbiter.{{cite web|url=http://space.epfl.ch/page43471.html |title=Bernard H. Foing |publisher=École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |accessdate=2009-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809233832/http://space.epfl.ch/page43471.html |archivedate=August 9, 2009 }} The HRSC is a high-resolution camera that can make full-color 3-D images of Mars's surface.{{cite web
| url = http://www.discovermagazine.com/2003/may/cover
| title = Mars Express
| publisher = Discover Magazine
| accessdate = 2009-08-30
}} The camera can also zoom in for a closer look and may be helpful in identifying useful landing sites for future Mars missions.
Bibliography
References
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External links
- [http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&task=detail&id=2507 If We Had No Moon] - An essay by Bernard Foing
- [http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&task=detail&id=1880 Noah's Ark on the Moon] - An essay by Bernard Foing
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081115120049/http://www.planetary.org/radio/archive/guest/148/ Planetary Radio] - Interviews conducted by The Planetary Society
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110717035106/http://archive.thespaceshow.com/shows/1205-BWB-2009-08-11.mp3 The Space Show] - Interview conducted by David Livingston August 11, 2009; (MP3)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160129040654/http://www.innovaxiom.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169058 Talk of Bernard Foing at the Origins 2011 congress]
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