Acronym: MPS
Location: Göttingen (Germany)
Website: www.mps.mpg.de
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, is one of 86 institutes of the Max Planck Society, Germany’s leading research association devoted to fundamental research. Scientifc work at MPS is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on all bodies within our solar system including the Sun, planets, and small bodies, as well as on the interior of distant stars. The institute contributes to several ongoing and future space missions such as Solar Orbiter, ExoMars and PLATO and leads the balloon mission Sunrise III.
MPS covers all aspects of solar physics from the study of the solar interior using helioseismology over the physics of all layers of the solar atmosphere to the connection of the corona to the heliosphere. Particular attention is given to the magnetism of the solar atmosphere.
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