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.
New Home for the Flight Spare Unit of PEP-JEI
The flight spare unit of the Jovian Electron and Ion Sensor (JEI) has left the MPS and has now taken up residence at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna (Sweden). JEI is part of the PEP (Particle Environment Package) instrument package that will travel to the Jovian system next year aboard ESA's JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) spacecraft to measure the distribution of electrons and ions in the gas giant's environment.
Solar Orbiter: First images from the closest flyby
New data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft show the Sun's corona in unprecedented detail. About a month and a half after the spacecraft passed the closest point in its orbit around the Sun, the teams of all ten science instruments are releasing the first results and images from this phase of the mission. The images and movies highlight the probe’s strength: the simultaneous view into different layers of our star.
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.
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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 flight spare unit of the Jovian Electron and Ion Sensor (JEI) has left the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen (Germany) and has now taken up residence at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna ...
New data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft show the Sun's outer hot atmosphere, the corona, in unprecedented detail. The images reveal high-resolution coronal loops as well as a curious structure surrounded by ray-like plasma flows and offer unique ...
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 ...