[Alumnes] ISSI Online Seminar Series: Game Changers: How Missions Change(d) our View of the Solar System (fwd)

[Octavio Guilera]

Hola todxs, espero se encuentren bien !

Quizás a alguien más le interesa este ciclo de charlas.

Abrazos
Octavio

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Dr. Octavio M. Guilera

Investigador Adjunto del CONICET.
Instituto de Astrofisica de La Plata (CONICET-UNLP).

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:30:25 +0200
From: ISSI Secretary <secretary en issibern.ch>
To: oguilera en fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar
Subject: ISSI Online Seminar Series: Game Changers: How Missions Change(d) our
     View of the Solar System

Dear friends of ISSI,

The International Space Science Institute is proud to announce the
next talk in its new online seminar series for today, August 13 at
17:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) please click on this Link
to start the Zoom Webinar >> Meeting ID: 852 6990 9362, Password:
459004

https://www.issibern.ch/index.php/spotlight/online-seminars-game-c
hangers/

The New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Outer Solar System 

by Dr. Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute in Boulder,
Colorado, USA)

The New Horizons mission – a NASA New Frontiers class mission – was
launched early 2006 and was the first to explore the Pluto-Charon
binary planet and its satellites, up-close through a six-month long
fly-by in 2015. After leaving the Pluto-Charon system, the
spacecraft went on to make the first spacecraft exploration of
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). It was eventually targeted to fly-by
486958 Arrokoth (originally nicknamed Ultima Thule) in 2019. The
spacecraft is one of only five to have achieved escape velocity
from the Solar System. It is possible that the spacecraft will fly
by another KBO still to be detected on its way out of the solar
system.  

Equipped with a suite of visible, infrared, and ultraviolet remote
sensing instruments and plasma and energetic particle
spectrometers, as well as a dust impact detector, New Horizons
gathered data that revolutionized our understanding of the
Pluto-Charon system and Kuiper belt objects. To name a few
discoveries, Pluto was found to have actively flowing glaciers
covered with nitrogen ice that even control its climate. Pluto is
tectonically and volcanically active with icy slush “lava” having
poured onto the surface, likely controlled by processes in a
subsurface ocean. Even Charon’s surface shows traces of
cryo-volcanic activity. Being so far out in the cold reaches of the
Solar System, the Pluto-Charon system is a remarkably active world!

Dr. Alan Stern is a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute
in Boulder, Colorado and the Chief Scientist of World View, a
commercial high-altitude ballooning company. Alan serves as the
principal investigator of the New Horizons mission and the lead of
the science team. World View (https://worldview.space) has bases in
Arizona and Australia, flies payloads for astronomy, planetary
astronomy, solar physics, earth observations, and atmospheric
studies, and is actively reaching out to connect with scientist
interested in flying payload all over the world. To sign up for
World View’s research mailing list, go to
https://world-view-research-education.mailchimpsites.com.   

Below, please see the list of confirmed seminar talks for the
months of August and September. These will be announced in more
detail in separate ISSI Newsletters in due time. 
20.08.2020 17:00 CEST    Mars Express by Prof. Ralf Jaumann, FU
Berlin, Germany
27.08.2020 17:00 CEST    Venus Express by Prof. Ann C. Vandaele,
(Institut d’Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique, Brussel, Belgium  
10.09.2020 17:00 CEST    Juno: Revealing the Mysteries of Jupiter
by Prof. Ravit Helled, University of Zürich, Switzerland
17.09.2020 17:00 CEST   Cassini-Huygens at Titan by Prof. Athena
Coustenis, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
24.09.2020 17:00 CEST    Rosetta by Prof. Jessica Agarwal, TU
Braunschweig, Germany 

For October we are preparing seminars on Game Changer Missions in
Solar and Plasma Physics and for November/December seminar talks on
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology missions.

Wit best regards,

Tilman Spohn

Prof. Tilman Spohn
Executive Director
International Space Science Institute
Hallerstrasse 6
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland

Tel:     +41 31 631 3255
Email:   tilman.spohn en issibern.ch