EPSS students pose in front of Mount Hood.
EPSS students hiking across a columnar jointed basalt mountain.
A child is entranced by a Tesla Ball at an EPSS booth at EYU 2022.
Depiction of the Solar System.
EPSS students gather around a hill overlooking a lake in Washington.
AR Sandbox spelling out UCLA in topography.
EPSS students doing labwork.

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Space Waves Team Up to Heat Solar Wind Particles

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EPSS Welcomes New Associate Professor - Dr. Björn Benneke

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EPSS Welcomes New Assistant Professor - Dr. Stacy Larochelle

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Seminar of the Day

Stardust in Samples from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

EPSS Colloquium
Tuesday Jan 21 3:30p.m. - 4:30p.m.
Presented By:
Prof. Pierre Haenecour - University of Arizona

Carbonaceous asteroids offer insight into the primordial materials that formed planets within the protoplanetary disk. They contain organic matter and tiny dust particles known as presolar grains, which originate from the envelopes of aging stars and the remnants of stellar explosions, including novae and supernovae before the birth of our …
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