[Baps] BU talk - Thursday 5/3 Jim Green / NASA

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Subject: [Csp_seminar] Thursday 5/3 Jim Green / NASA
From:    "Rochette, Amanda E" <rochette at bu.edu>
Date:    Fri, April 27, 2012 9:17 am
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Speaker: Jim Green
Affiliation: NASA Headquarters
Title: NASA's Solar System Exploration Paradigm: the first 50 years and a
look at the next 50
Date: Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Time: 3:30 PM Refreshments in CAS 500, 4:00 PM Talk
Place: 725 Commonwealth Ave. CAS 502
Abstract:
In exploring any particular solar system object over the past fifty years,
NASA
has followed a general paradigm of "flyby, orbit, land, rove, and sample
return."
A complete campaign may not be performed for each object in the solar system,
since not all our scientific questions can be studied at all objects, and
there
are high technological and financial hurdles to overcome for some missions
and
certain destinations. Moreover, a healthy program of solar system exploration
requires a balance between detailed investigations of a particular target and
broader reconnaissance of a variety of similar targets. In following this
paradigm, a descriptive review of the past exploration of solar system bodies
will be discussed, the significant progress on a number of solar system
bodies
currently underway, and the recipe for exploration as applied to the recent
Planetary Science Decadal Survey. Finally, a thoughtful reflection will be
made
of NASA's creation of the discipline of planetary science, predictions for
the
future, especially as the Curiosity Rover will begin its mission on the
surface
of Mars, and the potential for the discovery of life beyond Earth.

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Amanda Rochette
Proposal Development Administrator
Boston University
Center for Space Physics & Institute for Astrophysical Research
725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 506, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: (617) 353-5992 Fax: (617) 353-6463

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