Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
The research focus of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is our cosmic neighborhood: the solar system with its planets and moons, comets and asteroids as well as the sun. The aim of the scientists is to describe the processes in the solar system in models and to simulate them on the computer. In addition, instruments are being developed and built to study these bodies from space. The Institute is involved in numerous space missions.
Award for Janosch Preuss
The German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics has awarded Dr. Janosch Preuss from the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics at the University of Göttingen and from the MPS this year's Klaus Körper Prize. The GAMM thus honors the results presented by Janosch Preuss in his PhD-thesis at the end of last year. In it, he deals with the propagation of acoustic waves in the interior of the Sun.
First Rays of Sunlight for Sunrise III at the Arctic Circle
Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch site at the Arctic Circle. In June, Sunrise III will take off from Esrange Space Center, the Swedish Space Agency's (SSC) balloon and rocket base in Kiruna (Sweden), and will climb to an altitude of about 35 kilometers. During its flight of several days, it will then take unique measurements of the Sun.
Solar Orbiter heads for closest point to the Sun
After two years in space, ESA's spacecraft Solar Orbiter is heading for the best vantage point of its flight path so far. On Saturday, March 26, only about 48 million kilometers will separate the probe from the Sun. In the days around the so-called perihelion passage, the space probe is expected to record its most valuable data to date; the images of the hot solar corona will have the highest resolution of all times.
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Preparing for the 3rd Flight of Sunrise
In the past months, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III gradually took shape in the clean rooms at MPS. Hardware and team members are now headed for the launch site in Kiruna, Sweden. Launch is planned for the summer of 2022. Sunrise III will look at the Sun from the stratosphere with the help of a 1-meter telescope and three scientific instruments.
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The German Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) has awarded Dr. Janosch Preuss from the Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics at the University of Göttingen and from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) ...
Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch site at the Arctic Circle. In June, Sunrise III will take off ...
After two years in space, ESA's spacecraft Solar Orbiter, to which NASA is also contributing, is heading for the best vantage point of its flight path so far. Next Saturday, March 26, only about 48 million kilometers will separate the probe from the ...
The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its formation. In a recent study published today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for ...