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Goddard Space Flight Center is home to leading science organizations in Earth Science, Heliophysics, Astrophysics, and Planetary Science. In planetary alone, our scientists have vast expertise spanning the solar system. Examples include – but are not limited to:

Venus atmosphere and geomorphology
Lunar dust dynamics and volatiles
Mars atmospheric and surface chemistry and its volcanic history
Jupiter’s cloud composition and dynamics and its fascinating, active moons, including Io and Europa
Saturn atmospheric composition and its captivating moons Titan and Enceladus
Asteroids, comets, and the meteorites that give detailed scientific insight into their parent bodies
Ice Giants Uranus and Neptune
Space physics, including particles and fields
And analog field sites on Earth that mimic these diverse planetary environments

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On September 26th, the 2nd Planetary CubeSat Science Symposium was held at NASA GSFC, attended by over 100 scientists and engineers. Three sessions of oral talks covered: flight opportunities and programmatics; mission concepts; and hardware systems including buses, propulsion, communications and instrumentation. There was lively Q&A periods at the end of each session, and an afternoon poster session that gave mission proposers the opportunity to meet with vendors and suppliers. Presentations and posters have now been posted.
Registration for the 2nd Planetary CubeSat Science Symposium, September 26, 2017, is now closed.

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