What Wonderful Worlds: Exploring our Solar System

Our knowledge about our own Solar System has increased by leaps and bounds over the past few decades due to a combination of spacecraft missions and technical advancements on ground based telescopes. Why do we explore our Solar System? Review the numerous bodies now known to orbit the Sun, now familiar to us as individual worlds. Learn more about impacts on Jupiter, volcanic activity on Io, and planetary rings.

Speaker: Dr. Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley