LASP Researchers Find Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars
A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has discovered the first definitive evidence of shorelines on Mars, an indication of a deep, ancient lake there and a finding with implications for the discovery of past life on the Red Planet.
A paper on the subject by Di Achille, CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Brian Hynek and CU-Boulder Research Associate Mindi Searls, all of LASP, has been published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.
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LASP Students Support Successful Launch of Kepler
The Kepler spacecraft launched successfully on March 6 at 8:49 p.m. from Cape Canaveral, Fla. More than 400 people gathered at the LASP open house to celebrate and watch the launch. Kepler is now into its 60-day commissioning period. LASP has 20 students providing mission operations support for Kepler. The students will cover the commissioning period 24 hours per day, even through spring break!
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LASP was born in 1948 as the Upper Atmosphere Lab (UAL) along with a handful of other American universities and the military to initiate the era of space exploration...(more)
Boulder-built and Operated QuikSCAT Provides 10 Years of Data on Earth’s Climate
 June 17
This month marks a decade of success for NASA’s QuikSCAT mission, one that continues to provide a wealth of information about Earth’s climate since its launch June 19, 1999. QuikSCAT, short for Quick Scatterometer, was built in a record-breaking 12 months at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., for the Goddard Space Flight Center. The mission is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., with a team of professionals and undergraduate students at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), Boulder, Colo., performing mission operations.
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