Professor Emma Bunce's captivating lecture, 'Robotic exploration of our solar system', at Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place on Thursday, 15th June, 12:00pm.

In this lecture Professor Bunce will highlight key discoveries from previous planetary missions using a variety of different experimental techniques, and demonstrate how these have paved the way for the scientific goals for the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and the JUICE mission to Jupiter and Ganymede.

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Details:

Date: Thursday 15th June

Time: 12:00 – 1:00pm

Location: Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Title: Robotic Exploration of our Solar System

Speaker: Professor Emma Bunce, Director, Institute for Space, University of Leicester

Full event bio:

Robotic exploration of the solar system has advanced our understanding of planets and moons remarkably over the last few decades, providing new information on their interior structures, surfaces, atmospheres, and space environments using a variety of experimental techniques. These advanced spacecraft with their state-of-the-art instrumentation are launched towards their targets many years before the first in situ observations are made, and consideration of what will come next in terms of future planetary exploration is often decided many years before launch. Professor Bunce has experience of developing proposals for new missions, and leading and contributing to a range of instrument teams on various interplanetary explorers – including two exciting future missions: the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, and the ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) to Jupiter and Ganymede.