Contributing to the future
through the space domain
宇宙領域を通して、未来へ貢献する
NEWS
- Outreach
An official from the Science and Technology Section of the Embassy of France in Japan visited IPM.
- Note
Prof Yoshino and his team’s research has been published.
- Visitor
Hideharu Kuwahara (Ehime University) visited IPM.
- Note
Prof Makiko Ohtake becomes the first Japanese to receive NASA’s Coradini Award.
- Visitor
Kentaro Ookura (Okayama University) visited IPM.
- Event
We climbed Mt. Daisen as a field excursion of MISIP program.
- Event
We are hosting Misasa International Student Internship Program (2025)
- Event
International Symposium MISASA VIII “Future Planetary Exploration: Understanding of Planetary Surface Environments and Habitability” was held.
- Event
We hosted Misasa International Student Internship Program (2024).
- Event
We announce Prof Kanzaki’s Final Lecture.
- Call
[closed] We call application for Misasa International Student Internship Program 2025.
- Call
[closed] We call application for joint-research program (FY2025).
- Call
[closed] We call application for professor / associate professor positions.
- Call
[closed] We call application for Misasa International Student Internship Program 2024.
- Call
[closed] We call application for joint-research program (FY2024).
- Visitor
Hideharu Kuwahara (Ehime University) visited IPM.
- Visitor
Kentaro Ookura (Okayama University) visited IPM.
- Visitor
Xinyue Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China) visited IPM.
- Visitor
Yuri Shimone (Okayama University of Science) visited IPM.
- Visitor
Kazuhiro Migita (Okayama University of Science) visited IPM.
- Outreach
An official from the Science and Technology Section of the Embassy of France in Japan visited IPM.
- Outreach
IPM booth at JpGU 2025
- Outreach
We hosted an outreach event “Let’s create a forest on the moon” in Okayama.
- Outreach
Junior high-school students (Junior High-School attached to the Faculty of Education, Okayama University) visited IPM.
- Outreach
Elementary and junior-high school students in Tottori visited IPM as a course work “Fostering young researchers” organized by the National Institute of Technology, Yonago College (KOSEN).
- Note
Prof Yoshino and his team’s research has been published.
- Note
Prof Makiko Ohtake becomes the first Japanese to receive NASA’s Coradini Award.
- Note
Okayama University has published a news article on the recent international symposium “2025 MISASA VIII”.
- Note
Article “What is the nature of the magma heavier than rock that exists deep inside Mars? -The Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” on the International Space Station (ISS) is an electrostatic levitation furnace that will help us to understand the mysteries of the Martian interior.” is released to press.
- Note
The Institute’s advertisement was published in the JpGU newsletter.
ABOUT IPM
The Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University is located in Misasa Town, Tottori Prefecture where is famous for radium hot springs. The origins of our institute can be traced back to before World War II, first developed as the Hot Spring Research Institute of Okayama University combining medical care and earth science study after the war. In 1985, the earth science research division became independent and was approved as a Joint Usage/Research Center, "Institute for the Study of the Earth’s Interior". In 2016, a renewed "Institute for Planetary Materials (IPM)" was established after several reorganizations, and research topics were developed from evolution of the Earth’s interior to the research that approaches the origin of planets and life including extraterrestrial sample returns. Now we continuously research these topics.
