A Journey to the Ring Giant - The Legacy of Cassini Huygens

The Cassini-Huygens mission was a multinational effort to explore the Saturn system from 2004 until 2017. The Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, including several fly-bys of some of its larger moons, while the Huygens probe landed on the surface of the giant moon, Titan, in 2005. Cassini’s cameras and other instruments produced stunning images and extensive data of the giant planet, its spectacular ring system, and several of its larger moons. Ms. Dickson will talk about the spacecraft pair and present some of the mission’s major discoveries.

Megan Dickson is a student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, majoring in astrophysics. In addition to her academic pursuits, she works as a lab technician in the Department of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, under the guidance of Dr. Henric Krawczynski, the department chair of Physics and Astronomy. Her responsibilities include data analysis, lab work, and occasionally presenting astrophysics topics to her group for the journal club. 

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