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Exoplanets.org
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.

BioMARS Project
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.

Space Missions
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.

Other CIPS Research
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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Fall 2009 CIPS Events TBA

  • FALL 2009
    Graduate Seminar: Rocky & Icy Planets
    Astro 250
    Instructors: G. Marcy, M. Manga, E. Chiang
    M 12 noon- 2:00pm
    265 McCone Hall
  • FALL 2009
    Planetary Astrophysics
    Astro C162/ EPS C162
    Instructor: I. de Pater
    T Th 2:30pm - 5:00pm
    544 Campbell Hall
Center for Integrative Planetary Science (CIPS)
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Astronomy
601 Campbell Hall MS 3411, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411
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