The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2024
January 2024 - Spirit Knocked, Opportunity Rocked: 20 Years of Rovers on Mars
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the landing of Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rovers.
February 2024 - SPHEREx: Zooming Out to See the Big Picture
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light.
March 2024 - Mavericks of Mars: The Ingenuity Helicopter Team’s Favorite Flights
Join us for a live talk in which, through the framework of its pilots’ “Favorite Flights,” we’ll learn how Ingenuity’s team used resourcefulness and creativity to move beyond the helicopter’s initial mission.
April 2024 - Seeing Earth’s Coastlines: SWOT Satellite Provides Higher-Resolution Data than Ever
Join us for a live discussion with Dr. Ben Hamlington to learn how SWOT is #TrackingWorldWater to fill in our current gap of information regarding water at coastlines around the globe.
May 2024 - Shake & Bake: How Spacecraft Are Tested to Handle the Harsh Environment of Space
Join us for a live chat with two ETL experts who will teach us more about the equipment, the people behind environmental testing, and how they literally “shake and bake” spacecraft.
June 2024 - NASA in Your Home: How Space-Based Technology Improves Our Daily Lives
Join us for a live talk as we explore how space-based technology becomes a spinoff, including a deep dive on the NASA-designed and -built instrument at the heart of the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s first two satellites. Called Tanager-1 and Tanager-2, the satellites will pinpoint and measure methane and carbon dioxide sources in communities around the world from low-Earth orbit.