WHAT DO WE DO?
The research carried out in our group is focused on studying transient plasmas and electrical discharges that occur within planetary atmospheres.
PLASMAS IN PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
The TRAPPA group is a young research group (it was created at the end of 2008) formed by five members, two of whom are research engineers. The group is presently involved in international scientific teams of different missions and projects as, for instance, the Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM), which is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) approved for launching in 2018 with the aim of studying TLE and Terrestrial Gamma Flashes (TGFs) from the International Space Station (ISS) and the Coupled Observations from Balloon Related to ASIM and Taranis (COBRAT) project of the French CNES aimed at launching stratospheric balloons to investigate the possible impact of TLEs and TGF in the upper atmosphere of the Earth.