The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder is at the forefront of space weather and climate monitoring, solar and planetary research, and the search for evidence of habitable worlds.
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Today is astronaut and physicist Sally Ride's birthday! 🎂
In June 1983, Ride became the first American woman to travel to space. Her legacy and cosmic curiosity serve as an inspiration for all of us at LASP as we persevere in our mission to explore the cosmos!
Happy Birthday, Sally!
📸 from NASA
🔭✨️ See that bright yellow dot up there? That’s Venus - visible in the sky every evening until late October!
LASP has been to Venus twice, with the Mariner 5 and Pioneer Venus missions.
📸 Space
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In our space science era since day one 😏 🌌 🛰️
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NASA's next big astrophysics mission won't launch for quite a while, but we're already working on it! While people like LASP's own Dr. Kevin France hammer out the technology needed to do the HWO's science, take a listen to this story to learn more about the mission.
Today marks the 55-year launch anniversary of the Mariner 9 mission. Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, and the information that it returned transformed our understanding of the red planet and Earth.
📸 from NASA & LASP
Last week, the BSA REU kicked off its 2026 program. The program offers students from a variety of backgrounds and home institutions the opportunity to collaborate with professional mentors on hands-on solar and space physics research.
Stay tuned to see what the cohort accomplishes!
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Congrats to Alex! 🎉
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Ad astra, MAVEN 🫡 🛰️ ✨️
For more than a decade, MAVEN and its amazing team have given us an unprecedented understanding of the Martian atmosphere and its evolution. We are so proud and grateful to everyone on the mission who has enabled MAVEN's exploration of Mars.
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A LASPian was among the eight CU Boulder researchers and four university-connected startups to receive a combined $2.2 million in funding through the annual Advanced Industries Accelerator Program.
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The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more
Read the #OpenAccess article by Mutschler et al. [2026] for free on @wiley-stem.bsky.social!
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The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) has announced that eight University of Colorado Boulder researchers and four
Kevin France, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a new space telescope that could help us find new worlds.
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) has announced Alex Doner as the inaugural 2026 recipient of the Frank J. Crary Endowed…
An Ensemble Kalman Filter inversion tool estimates temporally deconvolved densities from Energy Dissipation Rates, adjusting MSIS ap inputs to match observed conditions
Estimated densities are co...
