Sponsoring Company: National Geographic Learning | Cengage
The dawn of the 21st
century is a golden age for scientific space exploration. Missions from NASA
and a growing set of international and commercial organizations launch
space telescopes and send flyby, orbiter, rover, and sample
return missions to explore our solar system. Dr. Ehlmann has been part of
planetary mission teams since she was an undergraduate student working on the
Mars Exploration Rovers. She has since worked on the
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, the Dawn orbiter mission to
the dwarf planet and asteroid Ceres, and is now the principal investigator leading
the Lunar Trailblazer mission to map ice on the Moon. She will describe
her journey from a child who loved science and science fiction to
planetary scientist, telling the story of how objects that were once
pinpricks of light in Earth’s sky have become worlds and how discoveries from the
journeys of spacecraft can inspire the next generation of explorers.
NSTA wishes to thank National Geographic Learning | Cengage for
sponsoring this speaker.
SPEAKERS:
Bethany Ehlmann (California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA)