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X-WR-CALNAME:P&A Colloquium: Fran Bagenal\, "Magnetospheres of the Outer Pl
 anets"
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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 8 at 2:30 PM in White Hall\, Room 
 G09. Fran Bagenal will present a talk titled "Magnetospheres of the Outer 
 Planets."\n\n_______\n\nAbstract\n\n As the name suggests\, a planet’s m
 agnetosphere is the region of space influenced by the planet’s magnetic 
 field. The magnetospheres of the giant planets have some similar basic str
 uctures as the Earth’s magnetosphere – a bow shock upstream in the sol
 ar wind\, a magnetosheath of deflected flow around the planet\, and a magn
 etotail downstream – but there are major differences. At Jupiter and Sat
 urn moons are major sources of plasma – Io at Jupiter\, Enceladus at Sat
 urn. Uranus and Neptune have highly irregular magnetic fields that are hig
 hly tilted from the spin axis which produce irregular magnetospheres that 
 change dramatically over the planet’s spin period. This presentation wil
 l review the four giant planet magnetospheres and discuss recent data from
  Juno at Jupiter as well as remote images of dramatic auroral emissions fr
 om HST and JWST. NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE missions are on
  their way to Jupiter and\, with luck\, we’ll get missions back to Uranu
 s and Neptune.\n\n_______\n\nBiography\n\nDr. Fran Bagenal is a research s
 cientist and professor at the University of Colorado\, Boulder and is co-i
 nvestigator and team leader of the plasma investigations on NASA’s New H
 orizons mission to Pluto and the Juno mission to Jupiter. Her main area of
  expertise is the study of charged particles trapped in planetary magnetic
  fields and the interaction of plasmas with the atmospheres of planetary o
 bjects\, particularly in the outer solar system. She edited the monograph 
 Jupiter: Planet\, Satellites and Magnetosphere (Cambridge University Press
 \, 2004).\n\nBorn and raised in the UK\, Dr. Bagenal received her bachelor
  degree in Physics and Geophysics from the University of Lancaster\, Engla
 nd\, and her doctorate degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT (Ca
 mbridge\, Mass) in 1981. She spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher
  at Imperial College\, London\, before returning to the United States for 
 research and faculty positions in Boulder\, Colorado. She has participated
  in several of NASA's planetary exploration missions\, including Voyager 1
  and 2\, Galileo\, Deep Space 1\, New Horizons and Juno. In 2015 she stopp
 ed teaching to focus on the New Horizons arrival at Pluto and Juno at Jupi
 ter.
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LOCATION:White Hall\, G09
SUMMARY:P&A Colloquium: Fran Bagenal\, "Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets
 "
URL;VALUE=URI:https://cal.wvu.edu/event/pa-colloquium-fran-bagenal-magnetos
 pheres-of-the-outer-planets
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