Volcanoes and Icy Moons.

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As a little girl growing up in Brazil, Rosaly Lopes followed the Apollo Moon program and was inspired to become a scientist working for NASA. Her journey took her to university in England and eventually to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Combining astronomy and geology, she became an expert on volcanoes on Earth, Mars, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. She was part of the science team of two great NASA missions, Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn, studying the fiery volcanoes of Jupiter’s moon Io and the icy volcanoes of Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan. She will describe her adventurous journey through different countries and solar system bodies, from studying active volcanoes on remote locations on Earth to discovering 71 active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io and ice volcanoes on Titan, which opened up the possibility that life may exist in the water ocean under Titan’s ice crust. Rosaly now leads an international team of scientists investigating whether Titan may be habitable. Lecture in English with simultaneous translation.