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Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 10: Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour
Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 10: Landing on a planet at 600 miles per hour Unmanned robotic missions are essential for understanding the planets within our solar system. Current missions comprise of gentle landings combined with rovers to explore the local region. Due to the expense of such missions, and their sometimes unsuitability as scientific outposts, UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory is developing Planetary Penetrators, which aim to land on planets at very high speed, penetrating the planet and implanting equipment just below the surface. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures
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9/27/2023
Space and Climate Physics - Postgraduate Virtual Open Day January 2022
Academic staff from the Department of Space and Climate Physics discuss, the postgraduate taught programmes available with the department and answer questions on the admissions process.
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2/18/2022
#MadeAtUCL Series 2 - Episode 6 - Mission to Mars
In this episode, #MadeAtUCL goes to Mars! We hear about the incredible UCL work that is helping to send a Rover (and maybe one day even a person) to the Red Planet as well as what we might find when we get there. Act 1 - Prof Andrew Coates, Deputy Director (Solar System), at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) talks about the Rosalind Rover that launches to Mars in September 2022 Act 2 - Prof Ian Crawford, Honorary Senior Research Fellow Dept of Physics & Astronomy, at UCL's Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences talks about possible life on Mars Act 3 - Dr Iya Whiteley, a Space Psychologist and the Director of the Centre for Space Medicine at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) on what it takes to be chosen as an astronaut to go to Mars Show notes and transcript on www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcas…2-ep6-mission-mars
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7/21/2021
Space and Climate Physics and Systems Engineering at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Staff from the Department of Space and Climate Physics, and the Department of Systems Engineering discuss the postgraduate courses available at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at UCL
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7/23/2020
SMILE: A Novel and Global Way to Explore Solar-Terrestrial Relationships
The SMILE mission: A novel way to explore solar-terrestrial interactions G. Branduardi-Raymont (MSSL/UCL, UK), C. Wang (NSSC/CAS, China) and the SMILE collaboration The coupling between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere-ionosphere system, and the geospace dynamics that result, comprise some of the key questions in space plasma physics. In situ measurements by a fleet of solar wind and magnetospheric missions, current and planned, can provide the most detailed observations of the Sun-Earth connections. However, we are still unable to quantify the global effects of the drivers of such connections, and to monitor their evolution with time. This information is the key missing link for developing a comprehensive understanding of how the Sun gives rise to and controls the Earth's plasma environment and space weather. SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a novel self-standing mission dedicated to observing the solar wind - magnetosphere coupling via simul
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5/29/2020