SPIF is both an active research facility and public visitor's center. Our Cornell campus location is open to visitors during walk-in hours and by appointment. We are also offering in-person programming, as well as continuing our virtual outreach services.

SPIF engages in commmunity outreach partnerships with the Ithaca Sciencenter through collaboration on exhibits and events, and with the Paleontological Research Institution through Extraterrestrial Virtual Field Experiences.

Check out our full list of Outreach Programs available to the public on-site, off-site, and virtually.

Tour the Solar System at SPIF!

• Touch a meteorite - some are primordial objects from the birth of the Solar System, others are from a destroyed planet's core, and a couple are rocks from the surface of Mars
• See the flag and patch presented to Cornell that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
• View historic photographic archives and vast digital libraries of Solar System images taken by spacecraft
• See models of spacecraft and cameras, including a flight model of a camera designed for Apollo astronauts to use on the Moon
• Get answers to questions you have about the Solar System
• See where and how scientists analyze images and make discoveries

Local Collaborators

• Michelle Kortenaar, Ithaca Sciencenter
• Don Dugaan-Haas, Paleontological Research Institution

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Sagan Planet Walk: Take a virtual tour of the Solar System
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