Category: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
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Mercury MESSENGER nears epic mission end
A spacecraft that carries a sensor built at the University of Michigan is about to crash into the planet closest to the sun — just as NASA intended.
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High-tech robotics center coming to U-Michigan
The U-M Board of Regents approved the College of Engineering’s new robotics building project on April 16. The three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility is slated for Hayward Street just east of the Space Research Building on North Campus.
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Lecture offers a planetary scientist’s tour through the solar system
The son of Hungarian Holocaust survivors, Tamas Gombosi took an unlikely path to his post as an eminent space scientist at U-M.