For more information, please contact:
Public Services Office
Mail Stop 186-113
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: (818) 354-0112
Fax: (818) 393-4641
Click here for directions. |
|
This month’s lecture: |
|
Voyager: 30 Years in Space The Outer Planets and Far Beyond |
Summary : |
|
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager spacecraft were assigned an ambitious mission — to explore the giant outer planets. Both spacecraft flew by Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1981. Voyager 1's flight path at Saturn bent away from the ecliptic plane, while Voyager 2 continued on to encounter Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989). Both Voyagers are now heading out of the solar system, with enough onboard resources to continue sending data until at least 2020. In 1998, Voyager 1 became the most distant human-made object in space. In December 2004, Voyager 1 crossed into a region at the outer edge of our solar system, and could cross into interstellar space — beyond the Sun’s domain — within the next 10 years. |
Speaker : |
|
Dr. Alan Cummings Senior Scientist, California Institute of Technology |
Location: |
|
Thursday, September 20, 2007, 7p.m.
The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
+Directions
|
|
|
Friday, September 21, 2007, 7p.m.
The Vosloh Forum at Pasadena City College
1570 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
+Directions |
Webcast: |
|
"Voyager: 30 Years in Space, The Outer Planets and Far Beyond" Archived Webcasts*:
RealPlayer (with captions): "Voyager 30 Years in Space" Webcast
RealPlayer (w/o captions): "Voyager 30 Years in Space" Webcast
*note: The speaker misspoke when referring to the distance from the Sun to the center of the galaxy as 8-10 light-years. That distance is 8-10 kilo-parsecs, or about 26,000 light-years. The speaker regrets any inconvenience this may have caused.
If you don't have RealPlayer, you can download the free RealPlayer 8 Basic.
Click here to return to the 2007 von Kármán Lecture Schedule.
|
|