Solar Exploration

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Type: General Meetings

Keywords: Sun Solar Spaceflight

Held on: Jun 15, 2016 (Wed) at 07:30 PM to Jun 15, 2016 (Wed) at 07:30 PM

Speaker: John McLaren

Location: Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA), Room A102, Seattle, Washington

Event Coordinator: Christopher Laurel

Overview

SAS member John McLaren will introduce us to some early human interactions with the Sun and their unexpected impacts on our growing technology. He'll discuss how we learned about the Sun before the space age, what we've since discovered from space-based observing, and what the future holds for solar observations from space.

 

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Latitude 47.6529796, Longitude -122.3110046

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