LOOK: SSL undergrad interns promote the lab at Cal Day
Our undergraduate interns talked up SSL’s opportunities with visiting students and parents at Cal Day on Saturday, April 18th.
Alan Toth
April 23, 2026
Our undergraduate interns talked up SSL’s opportunities with visiting students and parents at Cal Day on Saturday, April 18th.
While the ground-based survey is now globally recognized, its origins trace back to a proposed space-based mission at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL).
Much of what we see as auroras near the northern and southern magnetic poles begins as plasma currents in the Earth’s magnetotail. NASA’s CINEMA mission will probe this unexplored region.
Dr. Bruce Grossan passed away unexpectedly on February 10, 2026, at the age of 63.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit at Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun.
Asteroid Bennu material shows organic precursor molecules that may have produced ingredients of life first formed from cryogenic ammonia.
Commissioning of NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft is proceeding smoothly. ESCAPADE snapped this selfie in visible and infrared light.
On October 15, Lindy Elkins-Tanton gave a talk on NASA’s Psyche mission as part of a Center for Integrative Planetary Science seminar series.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory launched this morning. Carruthers is now traveling toward the Sun, around which it will enter solar orbit almost a million miles away from Earth and focus on Earth’s exosphere.
NASA’s PADRE mission will measure hard X-rays emitted during solar flares. It is poised to unlock the secrets of solar flares at a fraction of the cost of previous missions.