Professor Michele Dougherty
Is there life on Jupiter's moons? | The Royal Society
Roma Agrawal speaks to Michele Dougherty about JUICE, a mission hoping to discover the conditions needed for life on the icy moons of Jupiter.
Is there life on Jupiter's moons? | The Royal Society
Roma Agrawal speaks to Michele Dougherty about JUICE
Roma Agrawal speaks to Michele Dougherty about JUICE, a mission hoping to discover the conditions needed for life on the icy moons of Jupiter.
Schrödinger Lecture 2019: The Cassini Spacecraft Mission
Hear all about the Cassini Spacecraft Mission
Hear all about the Cassini Spacecraft Mission at Saturn’s surprising discoveries and mission results. Michele Dougherty, Professor of Space Physics and Head of Department of Physics, presents the 31st annual Schrödinger Lecture from the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
Chapter 12: Professor Michele Dougherty
Learn about the importance of engineers to our quest to go further into space.
Professor Michele Dougherty is a pioneering space physicist who is Head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. Michele is in charge of the team responsible for the magnetometer – an instrument that will be on board JUICE when it arrives at Jupiter in 2030. Watch to learn about the importance of engineers to our quest to go further into space.
Moons of Saturn - Michele Dougherty / Serious Science
Physicist Michele Dougherty on Cassini and Voyager missions and the possibility of life on Enceladus
Physicist Michele Dougherty on Cassini and Voyager missions and the possibility of life on Enceladus
Michele Dougherty — Professor of Space Physics, Imperial College London
Professor Marina Galand
Aurora in the Solar System: What they can teach us
Marina Galand is Professor in Planetary Science at Imperial College London, and has been exploring the deposition of solar and auroral particle energy in atmospheres of bodies throughout the Solar System and beyond, in close link with international space missions, such as Cassini and Rosetta.
In her inaugural lecture she will discuss how this energy is deposited in planetary atmospheres, will highlight the key role played by the plasma layer produced, and will explore how auroral emissions can be used to infer information on the energy source. She will illustrate her lecture with examples taken at several Solar System bodies, including Earth, Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, and comet 67P.
Aurora in the Solar System: What they can teach us
The deposition of solar and auroral particle energy in atmospheres of bodies across the Solar System
Marina Galand is Professor in Planetary Science at Imperial College London, and has been exploring the deposition of solar and auroral particle energy in atmospheres of bodies throughout the Solar System and beyond, in close link with international space missions, such as Cassini and Rosetta.
In her inaugural lecture she will discuss how this energy is deposited in planetary atmospheres, will highlight the key role played by the plasma layer produced, and will explore how auroral emissions can be used to infer information on the energy source. She will illustrate her lecture with examples taken at several Solar System bodies, including Earth, Jupiter’s moon Ganymede, and comet 67P.
Comet discovered to have its own northern lights
Comet discovered to have its own northern lights
Data from NASA instruments aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Rosetta mission have helped reveal that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora.
'Northern lights' surrounding Rosetta's famous comet
Astronomers find "northern lights" surrounding Rosetta's famous comet for the first time
Astronomers have previously spotted glowing auroras surrounding planets, as well as Jupiter's moons — but now, for the first time, they've found the dancing light show on a comet.
Dr Heather Graven
Greenhouse gas study at Imperial
Dr Heather Graven and her researchers talk about their research into greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas study at Imperial
Dr Heather Graven and her researchers talk about their research into greenhouse gas emissions
Dr Heather Graven and her researchers talk about their research into greenhouse gas emissions.
Professor Stuart Mangles
Recreating stars/quasars with lasers and plasma accelerators
Join Professor Stuart Mangles, Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics in the Department of Physics for his inaugural lecture.
Recreating stars/quasars with lasers and plasma accelerators
Professor Stuart Mangles' inaugural lecture
Join Professor Stuart Mangles, Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics in the Department of Physics for his inaugural lecture.
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