UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Society’s understanding of both surfaces and processes found within the solar system has greatly enhanced over the past four decades by the use of ultraviolet (UV) measurement. Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, will deliver the talk "Investigating Icy Worlds Using UV Spectroscopy" at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, in 112 Walker Building on Penn State's University Park campus. The talk is free and open to the public.
Hendrix’s talk is part of the Penn State Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's spring 2023 EarthTalks speaker series, “Exploration of our Solar System.” We now live in the golden age of solar system exploration. With a dozen NASA missions currently in development — as well as spacecraft actively on Mars, near Jupiter and in the Kuiper belt — the current scale of mission activity is unprecedented and brings forth a new era of comparative study of varied worlds at the systems level. The 2023 spring EarthTalks series is intended to provide a venue for the expansion of participant’s horizons into our solar system.
Talks in the series also are available via Zoom. For more information about the spring 2023 series, visit the EarthTalks webpage.