The facility welcomes all those interested in the study and exploration of the Solar System. We offers tours, lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on activities to the general public.

Housed on the third floor of the Space Sciences Building on Cornell University's main campus in Ithaca, NY, SPIF has a wonderfully centralized location, both on campus and in New York State.

Our facility includes a classroom/conference room that seats 25 adults or 30 children, a conference table that seats 8 people, a casual meeting space with couches that seat 6 people, and the Photogrammetry Lab with two workstations and three laptops for general use in images processing, mapping, and analysis. Our classroom is used for presentations by SPIF staff as well as department and visiting faculty. Hundreds of guests visit each year for discussions of planetary science discoveries and Solar System exploration, as well as activities and demonstrations. These visitors are from colleges, K-12 schools, school-age camps, youth and adult organizations, and space enthusiasts of all ages.

SPIF serves as a focus for planetary research at Cornell, and also supports the research activities of scientists and students from other institutions.

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