The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck

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Introduction

CPS members lead and make major contributions to solar system and exoplanet space missions, as well as hands-on studies of rocks and meteorites, ground-based observations of planets, geophysical models of planetary interiors and both theoretical and experimental studies on planetary materials.

The CPS is primarily a "virtual" research centre, and comprises researchers within the following groups at UCL and Birkbeck:

• Planetary Physics & Exoplanets Group, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, UCL
  
• Imaging Group, Dept of Space & Climate Physics, UCL (MSSL)
  
• Planetary Ices Group, Dept of Earth Sciences, UCL
  
• Planetary Science Group, Dept of Space & Climate Physics, UCL (MSSL)
  
• Planetary Science Group, Dept of Earth Sciences, UCL
• Crystallography and Mineral Physics Group, Dept of Earth Sciences, UCL
• Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck

Although primarily a virtual centre, several CPS members are located in the Centre for Planetary Sciences Room, in the Kathleen Lonsdale Building on the main UCL campus.

The CPS also houses the United Kingdom's only NASA Regional Planetary Imaging Facility.