Jupiter’s Four Galilean Moons After changing our view of the cosmos with Galileo’s discovery in 1610, the four large moons of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – have been challenging our scientific understanding of planetary bodies every since. Fran will present our current understanding of the workings of these four very different objects and outline the plans for their future exploration, including NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and ESA’s JUICE mission. Fran Bagenal Biography: Dr. Fran Bagenal is a research scientist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is co-investigator on NASA’s New Horizons mission to…
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