NASA's space probe Dawn will arrive at its first destination, the asteroid Vesta, this summer. The mission's homepage at MPS offers news and background information ...
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The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is partner of the GREGOR-project. The inauguration ceremony will take place on May 21st, 2012.
After ten years of development, the new German solar telescope GREGOR will start operating at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias on Tenerife. It is the largest solar telescope in Europe and number three worldwide. It will provide the German and the international community of solar ...
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Jüngste Ergebnisse belegen, dass der Zielasteroid der Dawn-Mission das einzige große bekannte Überbleibsel aus einer frühen Phase der Planetenentstehung ist.
Die Kameras der NASA-Raumsonde Dawn helfen die Geheimnisse des Asteroiden Vesta zu lüften. Die Farbbilder bestätigen: Vesta ist ein Relikt aus der Frühzeit des Sonnensystems. Denn der überraschend heterogene Himmelskörper ähnelt mehr einem Planeten als ...
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Magnetic shield protects Earth.
For the first time scientists of the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) discovered that the amount of oxygen ions leaving the Earth and Mars atmospheres is enhanced when a so-called co-rotating interaction region of the solar wind passes by the planets. The study is based on data of the Mars Express and Cluster spacecraft of the ...
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