Initial Results from the Juno Mission at Jupiter

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This is the October Meeting for the Life Members Chapter of San Antonio


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  • Date: 19 Oct 2017
  • Time: 04:30 PM UTC to 06:00 PM UTC
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  • 842 NW Loop 410
  • San Antonio, Texas
  • United States
  • Building: Lion and Rose
  • Room Number: The Dungeon
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  • Starts 29 September 2017 05:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 19 October 2017 05:00 AM UTC
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Dr. Gladstone of SwRI

Topic:

Initial Results from the Juno Mission at Jupiter

For Juno—NASA’s second New Frontiers mission—the major science goals are to investigate and characterize Jupiter’s origin, interior, atmosphere, and polar magnetosphere. Juno’s elongated polar orbit enables nine different instruments to contribute to these diverse goals, mostly during north to south perijove passes at only about 3000 km above the cloud tops, which reoccur about every 53 days. Excellent data from the first 7 science orbits (of 34 planned) have been acquired to date, with the next perijove scheduled for October 24, 2017. In this talk an overview of the results from the first year of Juno’s science observations at Jupiter will be presented.

Biography:

Randall Gladstone earned a B.Sc in Geophysics and Astronomy from the University of British Columbia. He also holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology. After several university assignments, Dr Gladstone joined the Southwest Research Institute in 1993 and today he is the Program Director for the Space Science Directorate in the Space Science and Engineering Division.

 Dr. Gladstone is a planetary scientist specializing in radiative transfer and the study of upper atmospheres. His research interests include the terrestrial and jovian aurora and airglow, extreme and far ultraviolet scattering problems, hydrocarbon photochemistry, and the evolution of planetary atmospheres. He has published over 190 technical papers in refereed journals, on subjects including the Sun, Earth, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, Triton, Pluto, and the primitive solar system.

Although primarily a theorist, Dr. Gladstone is also a regular user of several NASA satellite observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Chandra. Currently, he is Atmospheres Lead for the New Horizons Pluto mission (New Frontiers 1), Instrument Lead for the UVS instrument on the Juno mission to Jupiter (New Frontiers 2), Science Co-I for the LAMP instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, PI for the UVS instrument on ESA’s

Dr. Gladstone of SwRI

Topic:

Initial Results from the Juno Mission at Jupiter

Biography:





Agenda

11:30 Lunch

12:00 Speaker

1:00 Adjourn