Planetary science

The first map of rockfalls on the Moon shows 136,610 events - and indicates that the oldest lunar landscapes are still evolving. more

On Good Friday the Mercury probe BepiColombo will fly past Earth. Scientific instruments on board with MPS participation will use the opportunity to record their first scientific data more

Ulrich Christensen, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, receives one of the highest awards of the American Geophysical Union. more

Application deadline 1 November 2019. PhD projects in solar and stellar physics, exoplanets, solar system planets, planetary science, space missions, remote sensing. more

PhD projects: the data acquisition and data analysis of atmospheres of planets and their moons; the improvement or development of radiative transfer codes, models and simulations for the analysis of the data or the development of sophisticated instrumentation. more