The mission has enabled scientists to understand the history of the Martian atmosphere and climate.
Space
Climate & Space alum to lead NASA MAVEN mission to Mars
Prof. Kivelson to receive 2021 James Clerk Maxwell Prize
Honored for “For ground-breaking discoveries in space plasma physics…”
Answers Inc. – A brief history of U-M’s Space Physics Research Laboratory
For 75 years, SPRL has sent instruments skyward to help us better understand Earth, space, our sun and more.
The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles – we found a way to track them with satellites
In The Conversation, Chris Ruf explains how CYGNSS can find the source ocean microplastics and aid in future clean up.
Tracking ocean microplastics from space
Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.
Professor Sushil Atreya will play a leading role on the DAVINCI+ Mission to Venus
The new NASA mission will be the first to study the atmosphere of Venus since 1978.
Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory
Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”
Lockdown for space agencies put research projects in limbo
University of Michigan researchers’ work on NASA and European Space Agency projects that have been altered by COVID-19.
‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings
NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission.
Launching Solar Orbiter
For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. Join them on launch night.
Climate & Space students win AGU Outstanding Student Paper Awards
The Outstanding Student Presentation Awards are awarded to students for quality research in the geophysical sciences.
“It looks like the Sun!”
Impressions from the Solar Orbiter launch.
Professor Justin Kasper to receive the 2020 Copernicus Medal
Selected for “pioneering work on the heating and acceleration of the solar corona and the solar wind.”
Professor Xianzhe Jia is co-investigator on NASA Io Volcano Observer (IVO) project
“It is a great time for Jupiter system exploration…”
Climate & Space postdoctoral research fellow is first author on new paper
Congratulations, Dr. Hegedus!
Solar Orbiter heads for the Sun
After a “thunderous launch” the spacecraft begins its two-year journey to our nearest star.
