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Time Magazine Names MESSENGER One of the Best Inventions of 2009

Published: November 17, 2009

The MESSENGER spacecraft has been named one of Time magazine’s best 50 inventions of 2009. The NASA probe, built by the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., came in at number 11. Onboard MESSENGER is the AOSS/SPRL built instrument, FIPS (Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer) which is part of the Engergetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer (EPPS). AOSS Faculty Thomas Zurbuchen is a Principal Investigator on the project.

For more information on FIPS, visit the The Solar and Heliospheric Research Group's MESSENGER/FIPS website.

For MESSENGER mission details, visit MESSENGER Mission @ JHUAPL.

U-M "Observer Organization" for UN Climate Change Conference

Published: October 28, 2009

The University of Michigan has been granted "Observer Organization" status for the United Nations Climate Change Conference  in Copenhagen December 7-18, 2009. As part of this official designation, a select group of U-M faculty, alumni, and students will be admitted to observe the sessions of the COP15 Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. (Sessions are not open to the public.)


"This is one of the most important meetings in climate change and climate-change policy," says AOSS Prof. Richard B. Rood, who will be leading the U-M delegation to the global event, "and this is the first time the University of Michigan has had observer status."


Please watch as news about the U-M Delegation to the COP15 Conference unfolds.

Summer/Fall Daily Planet available online

Published: September 16, 2009

The latest AOSS news is in the Summer/Fall issue of the Daily Planet.  Some of the articles in this issue include:

Michigan tops OSU in bomb-detection competition
Alumni makes it 3—for—3
First direct evidence of lightning on Mars detected



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