Education
The Institut für Planetologie performs teaching and research in Planetary Sciences with a
particularly interdisciplinary approach including geochemical,
geological, geophysical, and mineralogical methods. It provides
graduate teaching and training in these disciplines and in the relevant
technologies.
Research
The general research theme
is the solar system, its origin, history and present status. The
objects studied are planets and their satellites, meteorites, impact
craters, comets, interplanetary dust particles (IDPs), and the presolar
nebula. Research activities and results are presented for the general
public through WWU press releases.
Facilities and Cooperations
The
available research facilities consist of state-of-the-art and
comprehensive microanalytical laboratories (interdisciplinary center
for electron microscopy and microanalysis 
ICEM), a cluster of Unix and Linux workstations and PCs, image processing and the required sample preparation equipment.The institute actively participates in various space experiments and in general is lively embedded in many national and international
cooperations. It is also central to the coordination of the DFG Priority Program 1115 "Mars and the Terrestrial Planets".
