The Plumes of Enceladus
Guest Speaker
Thursday, 5th January 2017 (19:45 - 22:00)
Venue: swmcmeet
The Cassini spacecraft took a daring plunge into the icy geysers of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on the 28th of October 2015 in search of tell-tale signs of a habitable environment.
The plume continuously jets thousands of miles into space from tiger stripe fissures in the moon’s south pole, carrying particles from the vast salty ocean sloshing just beneath the icy surface.
Speaker: Dr Chris Arridge
Chris Arridge is a Reader in Planetary Physics at Lancaster University. His work focuses on the giant planets and involves both data analysis and computational simulations. He was a member of the Cassini magnetometer and plasma spectrometer teams and is a co-investigator on the magnetometer team for the JUICE mission, to be launched in the next few years to Jupiter. He is also an amateur dancer and trainee Counsellor and Psychotherapist.
