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Welcome to our website. Available in English are YM/PS Column, Planetary News, Topics and Society Information.


YM/PS COLUMN is updated every Wednesday in principle.

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Planetary News is occasionally updated

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Topics is occasionally updated.

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Y.M. COLUMN

Y.M. is initials for (Dr.) Yasunori Matogawa. Dr. Y. Matogawa is Associate Executive Director of JAXA in charge of Office of Public Outreach and Space Education, ISAS/JAXA and professor of ISAS, the space department of JAXA in charge of robotic space missions of Japan. Dr. Matogawa has been devoting himself of Japanese space exploration for over 30 years. He is an excellent explainer of space science and a famous writer on space as well.

P.S. COLUMN

P.S. is initials for a planetary scientist who anonymously contributes a column on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

* JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
* ISAS: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science

Available in Japanese are the following contents.

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Solar System
covering the sun, nine planets, major moons, comets, asteroids and meteoroid

Space Exploration
including major past, on-going and future missions Image Library

SETI

Carl Sagan

The Planetary Report in Japanese

Cosmic School for Kids

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