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Space

ejolsenSeptember 15, 2021

Climate & Space alum to lead NASA MAVEN mission to Mars

The mission has enabled scientists to understand the history of the Martian atmosphere and climate.

ejolsenSeptember 9, 2021

Prof. Kivelson to receive 2021 James Clerk Maxwell Prize

Honored for “For ground-breaking discoveries in space plasma physics…”

ejolsenSeptember 8, 2021

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.

ejolsenSeptember 8, 2021

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.

ejolsenJune 10, 2021

Tracking ocean microplastics from space

Satellites give new insights on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plus sources and flows of ocean microplastic.

ejolsenJune 9, 2021

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.

ejolsenApril 29, 2020

Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory

Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”

ejolsenApril 2, 2020

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.

ejolsenMarch 30, 2020

‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings

NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission.

ejolsenMarch 6, 2020

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.

ejolsenFebruary 28, 2020

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.

ejolsenFebruary 25, 2020

“It looks like the Sun!”

Impressions from the Solar Orbiter launch.

ejolsenFebruary 21, 2020

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.”

ejolsenFebruary 20, 2020

Professor Xianzhe Jia is co-investigator on NASA Io Volcano Observer (IVO) project

“It is a great time for Jupiter system exploration…”

ejolsenFebruary 20, 2020

Climate & Space postdoctoral research fellow is first author on new paper

Congratulations, Dr. Hegedus! 

ejolsenFebruary 16, 2020

Solar Orbiter heads for the Sun

After a “thunderous launch” the spacecraft begins its two-year journey to our nearest star.

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