INPE - 2009

• Starting Brazilian Search Network about Global Climate Change and INCT for Climate Change, both led by INPE, and FAPESP Research Program on Global Climate Change, coordinated by INPE.
• Students visit the Mini Astronomical Observatory for the first time during the day to observe the Sun.
• Mini Astronomical Observatory had met 2,000 people.
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  Antenna of Marine Remote Sensing Station, in Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil.
  In partnership with Petrobras, two new facilities were opened at unit based in Cachoeira Paulista: Laboratory of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture and Marine Remote Sensing Station. First one linked to Laboratory for Combustion and Propulsion (LCP) to develop chemical looping combustion (CLC) aimed at capturing carbon dioxide from combustion processes to mitigate greenhouse effect. The station was the first one in Brazil dedicated to marine remote sensing, to process, store and distribute images from ENVISAT satellite.
• Tribology laboratory for measurement of friction coefficient, wear and assessment of critical load was installed in Associated Laboratory of Sensors and Materials (LAS), allowing characterizing solid lubricants for space and industrial applications.

  Worldwide

• International Year of Astronomy.

• Scientists find the first concrete evidence of lake on Mars.

• NASA announces the discovery of solid state water under the Moon surface.