Welcome

Welcome to the SPACE Laboratory at ISAS! We are planetary scientists, geologists, and remote sensing experts.

As of now, we are looking for new graduate students and postdocs. Interested candidates with the departmental postdoctoral fellowship programs or ISAS graduate studies should consider applying, especially if research interests span multiple faculty. [Contact]

News

Caminiti will speak at the ELSI Annual Public Lecture FY2025. [Link] [2026/01/23]

Sugahara is featured in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper. [Link] [2026/01/15]

Suzuki is featured in the “New Face” section of Yu-Sei-Jin, the journal of the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences (JSPS).[Link] [2025/12/25]

Usui appears on NHK's science program and talks about Mars. [Link] [2025/12/08]

Usui shows up at the Expo 2025 event. [Link] [2025/08/24]

Wada joins our group. [Link] [2025/07/01]

Caminiti joins our group. [Link] [2025/06/01]

Suzuki's commentary on the results of comet observations by the Hisaki satellite is published in the Astronomical Herald. [Link][Article] [2025/04/19]

Sugahara was promoted to associate professor. [2025/04/01]

Yoshida joins our group. [Link] [2025/04/01]

Highlights

Caminiti’s new article on effusive volcanism associated with impact basins on Mercury has been published in JGR: Planets. [Link] [2025/12/13 ]

Ruj’s new article on multi-stage glaciations and their climate controls in mid-latitude craters on Mars is published in Geology. [Link] [2025/09/02]

Uchida's new article on the coevolution processes of resurfacing and orbital dynamics in Phobos is published in PEPS. [Link] [2025/08/19]

Suzuki's new article on the radiative transfer process in cometary comae is published in Icarus. [Link] [2025/06/26]

Fukai's new article on grinding tomography of a meteorite is published in Icarus. [Link][Commentary (JP/EN)] [2025/05/12]

Hirata's new article on Mercury's surface major element compositions is published in JGR: planets. [Link] [2025/04/03]

Suzuki's new article on Mercury's Mg exosphere revealed by BepiColombo's 2nd and 3rd Mercury swing-bys is published in JGR: planets. [Link] [2024/10/16]

Tabata's new article on iron redox geochemistry in paleo-Gale lake is published in GCA. [Link] [2024/08/06]

Sugahara's new paper about the adsorption of ammonia and its nitrogen K-edge XANES spectrum and 15N/14N-nitrogen isotopic fractionation is published in Analytical Sciences. [Link] [2024/02/05]

Fukai's new article on the curation protocol related to the MMX mission is published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science. [Link] [2024/01/11]