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After six years, @laspatcu.bsky.social has said goodbye to Libera. The space instrument will now be integrated onto a satellite to be launched next year. It'll continue a 26-year record of Earth's "energy budget," or how energy flows to Earth from the sun and back into space. https://bit.ly/4shhfxt

🌖 Are you an early riser? ☀️ Tomorrow morning, you might be able to catch a total lunar eclipse before sunrise, especially on the west coast of the US!

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I spy LASP! Thanks for the shout-out, @colorado.gov ! We've seen a ton of stuff in space! 🛰But not these guys...yet👽

Happy Valentine's Day to the LASP community! Our world orbits around you!

NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASA These two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth

Congrats to LASPian Lynn Harvey, who is the Co-Investigator on STRIVE! Earth is a part of space we love studying, too!
www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Discover SunCET! This SmallSat will capture images of the Sun in extreme UV to observe coronal mass ejections during their acceleration phase. LASP and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are eager for SunCET's upcoming launch!

LASP announces 2025 Barth Family Graduate Fellows The 2025 recipients of the Barth Family Endowed Graduate Fellowship are Anant Telikicherla (second from left) advised by Tom Woods (at far left) and Mathew van den Heever (at far right) advised by…

Congratulations to the 2025 Barth Family Endowed Graduate Fellows!
lasp.colorado.edu/2026/01/27/2...

Things to come: Important bellwethers for space exploration in 2026 Things to come: Important bellwethers for space exploration in 2026

Is this a 'make or break year' for NASA? Check out LASPian Bruce Jakosky's perspective on the topic in this Space News op-ed he co-authored!
spacenews.com/things-to-co...

Monday was the 20th anniversary of New Horizon's launch!
You might be familiar with the mission's work in helping us better understand our farthest solar neighbors. But did you know how many young LASPians came into their own building, launching, and using New Horizons?

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Happy New Year's Eve!
What an exciting year of space exploration at LASP! So much amazing science was done, and we continued to train the next generation of space professionals. We were so honored to have you along for the ride, and we can't wait to share the cosmos with you again in 2026!
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Whether you'll be looking at ✨ in the 🌌 or one on top of a 🎄 this season, LASP wishes you and yours a stellar holiday season!

🧲 Simulated Solar Flare: Energy Deposition & Reconnection | 11:40–11:50 AM | Room 286–287
🌍 Libera: Wide-Field Camera for Earth’s Energy Budget | 11:10–11:20 AM | New Orleans Theater C

🚀 LASP solar + climate highlights at #AGU25 today:
☀️ Rapid Flare Ribbon Downflows (X9 flare) | 9:22–9:35 AM | Room 286–287
🌞 Unprecedented Fine Structure in Post-Flare Coronal Loops (DKIST, Invited) | 10:45–11:00 AM | Room 286–287

🧲 Can We Predict Super Substorms? IRANNA | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall
🌞 Quiescent Solar Wind Heating & Switchbacks (PSP) | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall

🚀 LASP at #AGU today:
🪐 Uranus Exosphere Collapse Since Voyager | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🛰 Voyager 2 Plasma Data at Uranus & Neptune (Reanalysis/Archive) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🛰 Compact Electrostatic Dust Analyzer (CEDA) | 4:35–4:45 PM | Room 291

🌊 Simulating Enceladus Plume Encounters (Lab MS) | 4:25–4:35 PM | Room 293
☄️ Active Asteroids & Meteoroid Streams (PSP) | 4:45–4:55 PM | Room 292
🧊 Hypervelocity Impacts into Water Ice Targets | 5:05–5:15 PM | Room 292
🛰 New Horizons Student Dust Counter Beyond 61 AU | 5:15–5:25 PM | Room 292

🌀 “Most Intense Space Weather Events…” (Oral) | 2:50–2:56 PM | Room 291
💍 Saturn’s E Ring Revisited | 2:15–2:25 PM | Room 292
❄️ Tracking the 2024 Arctic Melt w/ NASA ARCSIX | 4:15–4:25 PM | Room 208–209

🧠 IMAP SDC: Event-Driven Cloud Architecture & Open Science | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall
👥 Space Cloud Watch: Heliophysics Citizen Science | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall
🪐 Dust Analyzer Design Options for Uranus Orbiter & Probe | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall

🛰 Parker Solar Probe Charging: Models vs Measurements | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
✨ M-dwarf Flares Multiwavelength Campaign (AU Mic) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🌞 Flare Doppler Velocities via SDO/EVE | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall

🚀 LASP at #AGU on Wed., Dec. 17:
🌍 Retention of Habitable Atmospheres (RHAPS) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🌎 Probing the MLT w/ Solar Soft X-ray Occultations (CubeSats) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
☀️ DKIST Flare Spectral Variability (Impulsive Phase) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall

NASA’s IMAP Mission Captures ‘First Light,’ Looks Back at Earth  - NASA Science All 10 instruments aboard NASA’s newly launched IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission have successfully recorded their first measurements

Shout out for first light on IMAP! We're so excited to see data from IDEX!

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🌕 Transient Regolith Dust Bursts | 11:15–11:30 AM | Room 293
☀️ Flare Irradiance Spectral Model Updates (FISM-3/FISM-OP) | 2:15–2:25 PM | Room 283–285

🌋 Enceladus Plume Dust Mass Density (Cassini) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🌩 Jupiter’s Diffuse Aurora | 9:05–9:15 AM | Room 286–287
🌙 Water Delivery to Lunar South Pole | 11:00–11:15 AM | Room 293

🧪 IDEX Performance & Calibration (IMAP) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🪐 Utilizing IDEX to Hunt Organic Cosmic Dust | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🛰 Identifying Dust Populations in STEREO/WAVES Data | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall

🚀 LASP at #AGU today — here’s your quick hit list:
🛰 Most Intense Space Weather Events Since 1960 | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
☁️ IMAP Near-Real-Time Space Weather (I-ALiRT) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall
🧲 Magnetic Reconnection in the Turbulent Magnetosheath (MMS) | 8:30 AM–12 PM | Poster Hall

NASA Selects Two Heliophysics Missions for Continued Development - NASA NASA has selected one small explorer mission concept to advance toward flight design and another for an extended period of concept development.

We're so excited to work on CMEx with our friends at NCAR and BAE Systems!

www.nasa.gov/news-release...

🚀 Heading to #AGU? Catch LASP highlights today:

🌑 Plasma Wakes Throughout the Solar System | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall
🛰 Object–Plasma Interactions in LEO | 2:15–5:45 PM | Poster Hall
🌌 High-Latitude Ionosphere–Thermosphere Variability (DMSP SSULI) | 5:15–5:27 PM | Room 283–285

We're excited to see everyone at AGU this week! Keep an eye on social media for opportunities to see LASP presentations every day this week.

Happy #ColoradoGivesDay!
This year, you can help shape the future of space exploration in Colorado! By donating to LASP, you can support hands-on training for students, help fund research across the cosmos, and do your part to ensure the future of space science research.
lasp.colorado.edu/donors/

Can you believe it's been 30 years since Galileo became the first satellite to orbit Jupiter?

After being inserted into Jupiter's orbit in 1995, Galileo spent 34 orbits studying the Jovian system, including the four Galilean moons, with the help of two LASP instruments on board, the EUV and UVS.