Solar System Exploration: Planetary Physics, Comets, and Solar Wind

Solar System Exploration:
Planetary Physics, Comets, and Solar Wind

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Planetary Physics, Comets, and Solar Wind role at ORAU

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Organization National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Reference Code 0064-NPP-MAR
26-GSFC-Planet Sci

How To Apply 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

Description The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.

Research includes ongoing studies of Io and Io Torus, particularly time-variable phenomena. These programs also focus on aurorae on gas giants. Searches are underway for planetary bodies orbiting Pluto. Cometary research emphasizes the interaction of bright comets (such as Halley) with the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field, interpreting ion structures in the comet seen in wide-angle images of the tail, and narrow-field images of the ion coma and spectra.

We are also interested in what solar‑wind/IMF conditions initiate the formation of transient structures in the cometary tails, where in the comet the seat of the initial disturbance resides (e.g., sunward comma, inner ion tail), and what specific instability mechanism is involved. Structures important to probe in this manner are disconnection events, folding ion tail rays, and propagating helical waves.

Location Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

Field of Science Planetary Science

Advisors Edward Sittler (Edward.

C.Sittler; )

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)..

Eligibility is currently open to:

• 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
  1) a valid EAD card and
  2) I‑485 or I‑589 forms in pending status

Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp

Point of Contact Mikeala

Eligibility Requirements

• Degree:
  Doctoral Degree.

• Internship

• Full-time

• Management and Manufacturing
• Industries:
  Government Administration