Exploring the Red Planet; Back to Jupiter
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The planet Mars beckons us, as a possible future outpost for humanity. It has been the focus of NASA’s robotic planetary program for decades, and now the new Administration wants to send a human mission there as soon as possible. But is this feasible?
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is a robotic mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), its first large planetary mission sent to the outer Solar System. It will orbit Jupiter and conduct multiple flybys of the icy moons Europa and Callisto before entering orbit of the moon Ganymede, the largest moon of the Solar System. What are the goals of this mission?
David Williams
Williams, Dr. David- Is a Research Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Dr. Williams is the Director of the Ronald Greeley Center for Planetary Studies, a NASA-supported planetary data center at ASU. He is also the Director of the NASA Planetary Aeolian Laboratory, which administers wind tunnels at the Ames Research Center in California. David is currently performing research in volcanology and planetary geology, with a focus on planetary mapping, geochemical, and remote sensing studies. He was involved with NASA’s Mission to Venus, Galileo Mission to Jupiter, Dawn Mission to asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.