DAWN SPACE MISSION

DAWN SPACE MISSION: Unlocking the Secrets of Solar System Formation
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NASA’s Dawn Mission has explored the two largest bodies in the asteroid belt, orbiting Vesta in 2011 and Ceres in 2015-2018. It sent back spectacular images, revealing organic materials delivered by impacts from the outer Solar System on both bodies and discovering a briny sub-surface ocean on Ceres. Dawn has illuminated the effect of location in the proto-solar nebula on the composition and formation of planetary bodies and is profoundly changing our understanding of the genesis of our Solar System.

Presenter: Mary Barsony, BA, English, UC Berkeley; BA, French, Sorbonne; BA, Physics, MIT; PhD, Physics, California Institute of Technology, currently Principal Investigator at SETI Institute

Developer: Michal Peri

Date:
Friday, June 9

Time:
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Facilitator:
Marj Besemer