Join us August 13th at 7:00 PM EDT in person at Bear Branch Nature Center, or via the Zoom links below.
Our speaker will be Lou Mayo, who is a planetary scientist with over 40 years experience supporting NASA planetary research, space missions, and space science data centers. He was a member of both Voyager and Cassini IR Instrument teams and is currently chief scientist for GAMA-1 Technologies and professor of astronomy at Marymount University. Lou is also president of ARIES Scientific, a small not for profit dedicated to astronomy education. His primary research interests have been in understanding the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, developing radiative transfer models of aerosols and molecular species in Titan’s atmosphere.
Lou is also heavily involved in astronomy outreach and public communication. For over a decade, he led NASA’s team to bring heliophysics mission science and discovery to the country, including both Venus Transits and the 2017 solar eclipse across America. For NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, over the last 20 years, he has spearheaded astronomy education programs for Girl Scouts, Amateur Astronomers, university professors, and K-12 educators. And he is currently featured on the YouTube show, Space Oddities which streams every Monday at 3pm EDT.
His talk is: In July and August of 1977, two space probes were launched on a visionary mission of exploration of the outer solar system. These two Voyager spacecraft, now roughly 150AU from Earth, rewrote the textbooks on planetary science and continue to return valuable information about our universe from beyond the heliosphere. In this talk, we will explore together the legacy of Voyager through the eyes of the scientists and engineers who pioneered the mission and brought its many discoveries to the world.
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Topic: Monthly WASI Meeting
Time: August 13th, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 879 7384 1396
Passcode: 965007
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