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GREGOR: German astronomers finish Europe's largest solar telescope on Tenerife Press Release 03/2012 - May 15, 2012 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 ... [more]

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Instrument Operator (Engineer or Physicist/Astronomer) May 14, 2012 The planetary research group of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) is involved in NASA's Dawn mission that is visiting the large asteroids Vesta and Ceres. MPS operates the two scientific cameras (FC) onboard the Dawn spacecraft that was launched in Sept 2007. Since Aug 2011 the spacecraft is orbiting Vesta and will complete the mission in 2016 at Ceres. Information about Dawn FC ... [more]

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Vesta: Farbige Ansichten eines Ur-Planeten Press Release 02/2012 - May 11, 2012 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 ... [more]

Meeting

What have we learned from multi spacecraft missions Mini-Symposium June 22, 2012, Max Planck Institute in Katlenburg-Lindau (MPS) Space plasmas are often dominated by three dimensional, time varying structures. The Cluster mission, with its 4 satellites flying in a tetrahedron shaped configuration, was the first dedicated space mission to address these issues. With more than a decade of observations from the Earth's magnetosphere, its boundaries as well as observations from the solar wind, this mission has provided new insight in ... [more]

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Oxygen loss from Earth and Mars caused by same Solar wind impulse Press Release 01/2012 - March 9, 2012 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 ... [more]

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MPS Report 2009/2010 now available. December 9, 2011

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