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Science Lecture by Fran Bagenal |
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Date: March 23, 2005
Time: 2:00pm*
Location: NIA, Rm 404
Speaker: Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado
Subject: "Exploration of Jupiter and Beyond"
Additional Information: Webcast
From 1995 to 2003 NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter probed the deep
atmosphere, caught atmospheric storms colliding, imaged the fire and
ice geology of the Galilean moons and mapped out the vast jovian
magnetosphere. When NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Jupiter in
2000/1, hitching a gravity assist to Saturn, an impressive array of
scientific instruments captured movies of swirling clouds, glowing lava
and vast clouds of ionized gas. This presentation will summarize what
we have learned about the jovian system from recent missions and
outline some future possibilities. Dr Bagenal will also present current
plans for exploration of the more distant outer solar system, including
the New Horizons mission to Pluto, as well as ideas being developed by
the Outer Planets Assessment Group which she chairs.
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