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Distinguished Lectures

Distinguished Lectures

GT Planetary Science & Astrobiology Seminar/ Perseverance Landing Panel

GT Planetary Science & Astrobiology Seminar/ Perseverance Landing Panel

Feb 19, 2021 | Distinguished Lectures, ExplOrigins, News and Announcements

  Learn more here! The Center for Space Technology and Research (C-STAR), along with the ExplOrigins Group representing the Georgia Tech Astrobiology community, presents Space Science Week at Tech, a week’s worth of lectures and presentations celebrating...

GT Planetary & Astrobiology Seminar with Dr. Aileen Yingst

GT Planetary & Astrobiology Seminar with Dr. Aileen Yingst

Feb 12, 2021 | Distinguished Lectures

Friday, Feb. 12 11 a.m. The World In A Grain of Sand: What the Perseverance Rover Can Tell Us About the Geology of Mars Speaker: Aileen Yingst, Senior Scientist, Planetary Space Institute; Co-Investigator, SHERLOC/WATSON, Perseverance Rover; Deputy Primary...

CSTAR and EAS Dragonfly Panel

CSTAR and EAS Dragonfly Panel

Nov 20, 2020 | Distinguished Lectures, News and Announcements

On Friday, Nov. 20, C-STAR will host a virtual panel featuring four members of the team working on NASA’s Dragonfly project, a 2027 mission that will send a robotic rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. From NASA’s Dragonfly website:...

Titan Week: Dragonfly: In Situ Exploration of Titan’s Organic Chemistry and Habitability

Titan Week: Dragonfly: In Situ Exploration of Titan’s Organic Chemistry and Habitability

Nov 19, 2020 | Distinguished Lectures

Dr. Elizabeth Turtle, PI of Dragonfly Mission Thursday, November 19, 6:30 pm More info: https://cos.gatech.edu/events/titan-week-cstar-distinguished-lecture-2020-0 Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is an Ocean World with a dense atmosphere, abundant complex organic...

Why Do We Look Up at the Heavens?

Why Do We Look Up at the Heavens?

Apr 12, 2018 | Distinguished Lectures

Brother Guy Consolmagno Why did we go to the Moon? Why does the Vatican support an astronomical observatory? These questions mask a deeper question: why do individuals choose to spend their lives in pursuit of pure knowledge? The motivation behind our choices, both as...

Going Out in a Blaze of Glory: Cassini Science Highlights and the Grand Finale – Linda Spilker

Going Out in a Blaze of Glory: Cassini Science Highlights and the Grand Finale – Linda Spilker

Feb 22, 2017 | Distinguished Lectures

The Cassini mission’s findings have revolutionized our understanding of Saturn, its complex rings, the amazing assortment of moons and the planet’s dynamic magnetic environment.   Cassini’s Grand Finale begins in April 2017 with repeated dives between the innermost...

Why We Explore?

Why We Explore?

Nov 11, 2015 | Distinguished Lectures

Date 2015-11-18 Author Crocker, James H. Description We explore because exploration has been written in the human heart. The exploration of space is mankind’s greatest adventure. Today, given the social and environmental needs of the world, how can the existence of...

Understanding Particles and Fields Throughout the Solar System

Understanding Particles and Fields Throughout the Solar System

Oct 7, 2015 | Distinguished Lectures

Date 2015-10-07 Author Baker, Daniel Description Even before the official dawn of the Space Age – that is, before the launch of the Sputnik and Explorer spacecraft in 1957-1958 – many investigators around the world were engaged in space physics research. Using...

Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet

Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet

Apr 13, 2015 | Distinguished Lectures

Date 2015-04-13 Author Squyres, Steven W. Description Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the...

The Voyager spacecraft after 37 years in space: The quest for traveling beyond our solar system

The Voyager spacecraft after 37 years in space: The quest for traveling beyond our solar system

Jan 12, 2015 | Distinguished Lectures

Author Krimigis, Stamatios Description The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Although the primary mission was completed in 1989, these spacecraft are expected to obtain useful interplanetary, and possibly...

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