Solar System Exploration: Solar Wind Interaction Weakly Magnetized Bodies

Solar System Exploration:
Solar Wind Interaction with Weakly Magnetized Bodies

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Solar Wind Interaction with Weakly Magnetized Bodies role at ORAU
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All applications must be submitted in Zintellect. Please visit the NASA Postdoctoral Program website for application instructions and requirements:

How to Apply

| NASA Postdoctoral Program (orau.org).

A complete application to the NASA Postdoctoral Program includes:

• Research proposal
• Three letters of recommendation
• Official doctoral transcript documents

Final date to receive applications: 3/1/2026 6:00:59 PM Eastern Time Zone

The solar wind interacts with weakly or non magnetized bodies in a variety of manners: flow diversion resulting from mass loading caused by charge exchange and photo‑ionization of their upper atmospheres; direct interactions with ionospheric plasma; and crustal absorption where both an intrinsic magnetic field and a neural atmosphere are lacking. These processes give rise to phenomena such as bow and limb shocks, pickup ion acceleration, wave mode growth in the mass‑loaded solar wind, cometary ray structures, ionosheath plasma depletion layers, drift mirror waves, ionopause current layers, ionospheric fluxropes, nightside ionospheric holes, cometary type‑I ion tails, induced magnetic tails, and plasma wake effects.

Extensive data sets from missions such as Pioneer Venus, International Cometary Explorer, Giotto, Phobos‑2, Mars Global Surveyor, and Lunar Prospector are available earch opportunities exist for data analysis and theoretical modeling topics related to these missions.

• Doctoral Degree
• U.S. Citizens;
• U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR);
• Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J-1 visa status;
• Applicants for LPR, asylees, or refugees in the U.S. at the time of application with a valid EAD card and I‑485 or I‑589 forms in pending status.

Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

Planetary Science

• Mei-Ching Fok – mei-ching.h.fok – 301‑286‑1083
• Alex Glocer – alex.glocer-1 – 301‑286‑9475
• Edward Sittler – Edward.
  
  C.Sittler – 301‑286‑9215

Applications with citizens from Designated Countries will not be accepted at this time, unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the United States. A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..