The world's foremost planet hunting team, headed by Professor Geoff Marcy, search for other worlds beyond our solar system. The first rocky, earth-like planet was recently discovered orbiting the nearby star, GJ 876.

BIOspheres of Mars: Ancient and Recent Studies (“BioMARS”), is a multi-campus, collaborative research effort funded by a $6.1 million grant from the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) focusing on studies relevant to the exploration of Mars and other extraterrestrial bodies.

CIPS researchers and faculty are integrally involved in the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM). the Kepler Mission, and instrumentation development of the Multiple Instument Distributed Aperture Array Sensor (MIDAS) for missions to the Moon, Mars, and outer planets.

CIPS faculty are involved in a wide range of research: observation of Uranus, Neptune, Titan, Io, and asteroids using Keck adaptive optics, development of techniques for retrieving the 3-dimensional aerosol distribution on Titan, observations and theory of the Kuiper belt, the new planet "Xena," and protoplanetary and planetesimal debris disks.

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CIPS SEMINAR SERIES
Campbell Hall #544
12 noon - 1pm

• May 7: David Brain, SSL, UC Berkeley
• May 14: Xander Tielens, NASA Ames, U. of Gronigen

• FALL 2008
  Astro 250 Graduate Seminar series:
  Meteorites & the Solar System
  Instructors: A. Butterworth & I. de Pater
  MW 11am - 1pm
  365 McCone Hall
  
  
• FALL 2008
  Astro 162 / EPS 162:
  Solar System Astrophysics
  Instructor: Imke de Pater
  Time & Location: TBA