Science Breaks: After Cassini

Join Professor Michele Dougherty for Science Breaks: After Cassini

Science Breaks: After Cassini

Probing the icy moons of Jupiter with JUICE

In 2017, the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens spacecraft mission completed its 20 years in space by burning up in Saturn’s atmosphere. These final orbits were designed to better understand the interior of Saturn and its magnetic field. Last year Professor Michele Dougherty, one of the mission’s Principal Investigators, gave the Faculty of Natural Science’s annual Erwin Schrödinger Lecture describing the end of mission results.

In this latest event in the Science Breaks series, Professor Michele Dougherty will host an update on the latest science being carried out on Cassini data, and discuss how that mission has fed into the planning for JUICE, the next Cassini scale mission to Jupiter. During this live discussion you will hear ambitious plans to tease out details about oceans underneath the surface of Jovian moons, and how the development of the high spec instrumentation, and progress in the mission more widely, has been affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Biography

Michele Dougherty is Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London. She is leading unmanned exploratory missions to Saturn and Jupiter and was the Principal Investigator for the magnetometer instrument onboard the Cassini mission to Saturn as well as being the Principal Investigator the magnetometer for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) of the European Space Agency due for launch in June 2022. She is Head of the Physics Department, is a Fellow of the Royal Society, was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society Geophysics Gold medal in 2017, was awarded a CBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List, and was awarded the Institute of Physics Richard Glazebrook Gold Medal and Prize.

Science Breaks

Science Breaks is a new, virtual event series showcasing the impact and relevance of Imperial's research and work taking place at the College.

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