Solar Exploration
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Public
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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