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 groundbased telescopes. We will start with a short overview of our Solar System, with the numerous bodies now known to orbit the Sun. Many of these have become familiar to us as individual worlds, including Pluto, several asteroids, and comets. During the second part of the talk we will focus on recent results our group obtained with regard to Io, one of Jupiter’s large moons, which is the most volcanically active body in our Solar System.

Speaker: Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley

Stargazing from 8:30 to 9:30