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Feb 23, 2012
NASA Rocket Carrying Instruments Built at UNH Launched Into Aurora
With the full sky shimmering in green aurora on Feb. 18, 2012, a team of scientists, including space physicist Marc Lessard and graduate students from UNH’s Space Science Center, launched an instrument-laden, two-stage sounding rocket from the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska. The precision measurements from the rocket’s instruments will shed new light on the physical processes that... Read more
Nov 30, 2011
UNH Scientists Receive NASA Funds to Measure Impact of Melting Mountain Glaciers for Next IPCC Assessment
Scientists in the Water Systems Analysis Group in the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) have been funded by NASA to improve estimates of how melting mountain glaciers around the globe will contribute to sea level rise in the future. The data will be a critical new element in the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... Read more
Oct 26, 2011
UNH Will Provide Instruments for Upcoming ESA and JAXA Satellite Missions
Scientists and engineers from the UNH Space Science Center (SSC) have been selected to provide instruments for two upcoming satellite missions led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The successful proposals draw upon the long history of work done at UNH for other satellite missions, including NASA’s Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (STEREO) that was... Read more
Oct 18, 2011
UNH Doctoral Student Wins 2011 Switzer Environmental Award
UNH graduate student Matthew Vadeboncoeur was recently awarded a 2011 Switzer Environmental Fellowship by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. The fellowship is one of just 20 awarded this year by the foundation for emerging environmental leaders who are pursuing graduate degrees and are dedicated to working towards positive environmental change in their career work. Fellows, chosen... Read more- Next Posts
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Mar 22, 2012
Cosmic Rays Alter Chemistry of Lunar Ice
Space scientists from UNH, working as part of a multi-institutional team, have quantified levels of radiation on the moon’s surface from galactic cosmic ray (GCR) bombardment that over time causes chemical changes in water ice and can create complex carbon chains similar to those that help form the foundations of biological structures. In addition, the radiation process causes the lunar... Read morePosted in: Space Science, Research Development & Communications, Research Spotlight
Tags: 2012, CRaTER instrument, EOS, galactic cosmic ray bombardment, Institute for the Study of Earth-Oceans-Space, NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. LRO, Space Science Center