{"id":9045,"date":"2020-09-08T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?page_id=9045"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:18:10","slug":"planetary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/research\/planetary\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our department has a number of associated research groups active in planetary science, primarily studying the upper atmospheres and ionospheres of planets and moons.<\/p>\n

We use ground-based telescopes, including a dedicated facility at the McDonald Observatory<\/a><\/strong> in Texas, sub-orbital rocket experiments, space-based telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a><\/strong>, and spacecraft, including Mars Express<\/a><\/strong> and MAVEN<\/a><\/strong>, to explore these environments. We also develop computational models to test theories for how these environments behave.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Faculty with Related Research<\/h2>\n

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planetary atmospheres, UV astrophysics, FUV instruments for remote observations<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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star-terrestrial planet interactions in our solar system and beyond; magnetic reconnection and turbulence; wave-particle interaction; physics-informed machine learning; high intensity laser-plasma interaction<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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space plasma waves, Earth\u2019s magnetospheric physics, solar-wind magnetosphere coupling, energetic particle precipitation, Jovian magnetosphere and aurora<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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ionospheric physics, space physics, thermosphere\/ionosphere plasma irregularities<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

space physics, planetary atmospheres, observations and models<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\tResearch Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

modeling and observations of planetary atmospheres, with a focus on the upper atmospheres of the giant planets and on the coupling between atmospheres and the space environment<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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atmospheres of Jupiter\u2019s moons, comets, Mercury and our own Moon<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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the behaviour of the martian upper atmosphere and ionosphere, analysis of accelerometer data<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

 
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Our department has a number of associated research groups active in planetary science, primarily studying the upper atmospheres and ionospheres of planets and moons. We use ground-based telescopes, including a dedicated facility at the McDonald Observatory in Texas, sub-orbital rocket experiments, space-based telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, and spacecraft, including Mars Express and MAVEN, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"featured_media":0,"parent":8676,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11766,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9045\/revisions\/11766"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}