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Project Ideas for Master of Science in Planetary Science

Interdisciplinary exploration of planets, moons, and small bodies across the solar system.

🏛 Introduction

UC’s MS in Planetary Science combines geology, atmospheric science, and astrophysics to probe planetary formation, habitability, and exploration targets.

💡 Suggested Project Titles

Thermal evolution model of Europa’s subsurface ocean salinity gradients

Machine-learning crater-counting on high-resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images

Isotopic analysis of Martian meteorites to constrain mantle degassing history

Wind-tunnel simulation of Titan sand transport with low-density organics

Spectral unmixing of lunar pyroclastic deposits using Chandrayaan-2 data

VR field trip comparing Icelandic basalt flows to Venus highlands analogs

Lab impact experiments reproducing Bennu regolith cohesion under micro-g

Exoplanet phase-curve inversion retrieving cloud coverage on ultra-hot Jupiters

Policy brief on planetary-protection protocols for sample-return missions

Magnetohydrodynamic modeling of Ganymede’s intrinsic magnetosphere

Camera trap network monitoring biological contamination at Mars analog sites in the Atacama

3D thermochemical convection model of early Earth magma ocean solidification

Citizen-science classification of occultation star chords for Kuiper Belt objects

High-pressure experiment studying water–rock reactions forming serpentine on Ceres

CubeSat concept measuring near-Earth asteroid YORP spin-state changes

Public planet-walk installation scaling solar system to city streets

Radiative transfer modeling of haze photochemistry in young exoplanet atmospheres

White paper on open access to mission data for global south researchers

Educational kit teaching crater formation with household materials

Conference on ethics of off-world resource extraction

University of California – MS in Planetary Science

Explore worlds beyond Earth with UC’s mission-linked MS.

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