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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM

photo of Steve Levin

Monday, April 12, 2010 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Steven Levin

"Juno – A Jupiter Polar Orbiter"

ABSTRACT -- Juno is the second mission in NASA’s New Frontiers program. It is a Jupiter polar orbiter, scheduled to launch in August 2011, and arrive at Jupiter in July 2016. Juno’s primary mission is to improve our understanding of the solar system by helping us to study the origin and evolution of Jupiter. It is the first solar-powered mission to an outer planet, and its eight instruments will conduct gravity, magnetic, and atmospheric investigations of Jupiter, as well as fields and particles investigations of the Jovian aurora and polar magnetosphere. This talk will give an overview of the Juno project and its current status.

SPEAKER -- Steven Levin is the Project Scientist for Juno.He received his AB and PhD degrees from U.C. Berkeley in 1981 and 1987, followed by work as a post-doc and a researcher at U.C. Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab and Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and has been at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1990. Besides Juno, his professional interests have included:

Dr. Levin has been involved with a variety of NASA projects, including CoBE, HRMS/SETI, ARCADE, NEAT, Galileo, GAVRT, Planck, and Juno. He frequently gives science talks to schoolchildren, teachers, and the general public.




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