Research Programs
Planetary Sciences
EAPS’s planetary sciences research program explores a wide
range of topics concerning the physical, chemical, and geological
structure of solar system bodies and their individual and collective
evolutionary histories. Research activities also include the dynamical
and chaotic evolution of planetary systems, dynamical studies of small
solar system bodies, analysis of the structures and dynamics of planetary
interiors as they relate to thermal history, and the evolution of
planetary surfaces.
Our planetary scientists have access to the nation’s top observatories,
telescopes, spacecraft data, and remote sensing applications, and
are actively involved in the design and development of instrumentation
and operations at ground-based observation facilities as well as with
ongoing planetary missions. Moreover, we are able to perform analysis
and modeling activities on data gleaned from astronomical telescopes,
Earth-orbiting and planetary spacecraft, and the NASA Planetary Data
System and National Space Science Data Center.
