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Professor, Atrophysical and Planetary Sciences
Principal Investigator, UVIS Instrument on the Cassini Mission
to Saturn
RESEARCH
LASP - University of Colorado
1234 Innovation Drive
Boulder, Colorado 80303-7814
Phone: 303-492-5990
Fax: 303-492-6946
TEACHING
LASP - University of Colorado
392 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0392
Phone: 303-492-7325
Fax: 303-492-6946 |
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| Biographical Sketch |
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| Dr. Esposito the principal
investigator of the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) experiment
on the Cassini space mission to Saturn. He was chair of the Voyager
Rings Working Group. As a member of the Pioneer Saturn imaging
team, he discovered Saturn’s
F ring. He has been a participant in numerous US, Russian and European
space missions and used the Hubble Space Telescope for its first
observations of the planet Venus. He was awarded the Harold C.
Urey Prize from the American Astronomical Society, The NASA Medal
for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Richtmyer Lecture
Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers and the
American Physical Society. Dr. Esposito has written his Ph.D dissertation, numerous scientific
publications, scholarly reviews on the topic of planetary rings
as well as the Cambridge University Press book Planetary Rings.
Along with his students and colleagues he continues to actively
research the nature and history of planetary rings at the University
of Colorado, where he has been since 1977. He is now Professor
of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and a member of the Laboratory
for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).
He has been an officer of the Division for Planetary Sciences
of the American Astronomical Society and of the Committee for
Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council of Scientific
Unions. He was chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee
on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX). He is a member
of American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union
and International Astronomical Union. |
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