IOP talk by Dr. Chris Arridge at Hull University

The final lecture in this series, sponsored by the Institute of Physics, will be on 19th April at 7pm.

Venue: Basil Reckitt lecture theatre, Ferens building on the Hull campus.

Speaker: Dr Chris Arridge, University College London, Mullard space science laboratory.

"...Since the early 1960s starting with the flyby of Venus by Mariner 2, we have launched spacecraft into interplanetary space to study our solar
system. The light travel time from Earth to one of these spacecraft can be significant so these complex machines - these robots - must be
capable of working semi-autonomously. Together they've returned petabytes of data from distant regions of our solar system, with Voyager
1 about to leave our solar system and enter interstellar space within the next few years. In this talk I'll discuss the robotic exploration of
the giant planets with a focus on recent results from the Cassini spacecraft and the operations for this spacecraft. I'll finish up with a
look at the challenges for exploring the poorly-understood ice giant Uranus, and European efforts to launch a new spacecraft out to this
distant object."

Dr. Arridge was guest speaker at HERAS in March last year when he gave an excellent talk entitled 'The Plumes of Enceladus'.

Please support the IOP lecture series if you can.

Paul.