Lunch & Learn- Astrophysicist from JPL
- What
- Lunch & Learn- Astrophysicist from JPL
- When
- 2/21/2014, 12:24 PM – 1:00 PM
- Where
- CCC College & Career Center
Meet Steven Levin, an Astrophysicist from JPL. His currant project is working Juno; a spaceship that is on its way to Jupiter for 2016. NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on August 5, 2011. Juno will conduct a first-time, in-depth study of the giant planet. This mission will place a spacecraft in a polar orbit around Jupiter to investigate the existence of an ice-rock core; determine the amount of global water and ammonia present in the atmosphere; study convection and deep wind profiles in the atmosphere; investigate the origin of the Jovian magnetic field; and explore the polar magnetosphere.