September Monthly Meeting: Europa Clipper: Voyage to an Ocean Moon

Location: Zoom + In-Person at First Evangelical Lutheran Church (803 3rd Ave, Longmont, CO 80501)

Summary

John Spencer is an Institute Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, where he has worked since 2004.  He is deputy principal investigator for Europa Clipper’s temperature mapping instrument, and a science team member on its ultraviolet spectrometer.  He specializes in observations of the outer solar system, and Jupiter’s moons in particular, with telescopes on the Earth’s surface, the Hubble Space Telescope, and interplanetary spacecraft.