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2007 von Karman Lecture Series

The von Kármán lecture series offers the public a front-row seat into exciting JPL-managed missions, significant science findings and futuristic technologies being developed at the Lab for NASA. The free monthly series, named after rocket pioneer and JPL founder Theodore von Kármán, takes place at JPL and Pasadena Community College. Below are the archived webcasts of the 2007 von Kármán Lecture Series.

  
     

2007 Lecture Series Season

     
artist concept of MER rover   Jan. 25 & 26, 2007
Topic: Mars Exploration Rovers: Three Years on Mars

January 2004. Twin Rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars. Each Rover was to explore the surface for 90 days.
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artist concept of dawn   Feb. 22 & 23, 2007
Topic: Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt

NASA's next venture into the solar system is the Dawn mission, planned for launch in October 2007.
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artist concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter   Mar. 22 & 23, 2007
Topic: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Early Mission Results

Launched August 12, 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finished its aerobraking phase on August 30, 2006.
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artist concept of greenhouse effect   Apr. 12 & 13, 2007
Topic: Your "Carbon Footprint" and the Greenhouse Effect
 
Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion and other human activities.
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artist concept of another earth-like planet   May 10 & 11, 2007
Topic: Looking for Earth in Other Places

In the vast blackness of space, our home planet is a single sparkling oasis of life.
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artist concept of phoenix   Jun. 21 & 22, 2007
Topic: Phoenix: The Next Mission to Mars
 
Launching in August 2007 for arrival in late May 2008, the Phoenix mission will bring 11 science experiments to explore the nothern near-polar environment on Mars.
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artist concept of explorer 1   Jul. 19 & 20, 2007
Topic: The Launch of Science into Space
 
In 1952, a group of American scientists decided the world scientific community should undertake a third International Polar Year (IPY).
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Enceladus   Aug. 16 & 17, 2007
Topic: "Yellowstone" on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
 
The Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs on Saturn's Moon Enceladus.
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voyager   Sep. 20 & 21, 2007
Topic: Voyager at the Edge of The Solar System

Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager spacecraft were assigned an ambitious mission — to explore the giant outer planets.
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image of a hurricane   Oct. 18 & 19, 2007
Topic: Predicting Climate Change
 
Meeting the challenge of predicting climate change involves the collaboration of many different types of scientists.
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Europa   Nov. 15 & 16, 2007
Topic: Europa's Underground Ocean

Jupiter’s moon Europa may be a habitable world. Evidence points strongly to a global subsurface ocean beneath an ice shell.
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crab nebula   Dec. 6 & 7
Topic: Finding High Energy Cosmic Rays
The California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory (CHICOS) project is a research array for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
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