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Larry Esposito

Phone: 303-492-5990
Email: Larry.Esposito at lasp.colorado.edu
WWW: http://lasp.colorado.edu/~esposito/

Personal Info

  • Planetary astronomer at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.
  • Professor in the Department of Astrophysics, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
  • Principal Investigator since 1990 of the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS ) Experiment in the Cassini Mission to Saturn.
  • Has been an investigator in the Pioneer Venus, Pioneer Saturn, Voyager, Galileo, Mars Observer, USSR Phobos, and USSR Mars 1994 spacecraft missions.
  • Achievements include the discovery of Saturn's fourth ring in 1979 as part of the Pioneer Saturn team, and the first Hubble Space Telescope observations of Venus in 1995.
  • Currently Principal Investigator of the Venus Surface-Atmosphere Geochemistry Explorer (SAGE), a New Frontiers initiative that will be proposed to NASA.
  • Resume and vita can be found on Dr. Esposito's homepage

    • Interests

    Has taught astrophysical, planetary, and atmospheric sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder since 1977. Information about current classes and seminars may be found at http://lasp.colorado.edu/~espoclass. Advises graduate students. Is available to give public presentations on space research and on the Cassini mission to Saturn.

    Research interests include observational and theoretical studies of planetary atmospheres and rings; the chemistry and dynamics of the Venus clouds; waves in Saturn's rings; and numerical methods for radiation transfer. Dr. Esposito has contributed numerous articles to scientific publications. In 2002 he published a paper on planetary rings in Reports on Progress in Physics, and he is currently writing a book on this subject. A comprehensive list of his publications can be found at http://lasp.colorado.edu/~esposito.

    Projects

    UVIS Experiment http://lasp.colorado.edu/cassini of the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/.
    New Frontiers SAGE http://centauri.larc.nasa.gov/newfrontiers/ initiative.

    Publications

  • Publications by Larry Esposito in the LASP Database
  • Select publications

    • Favorite Links

    JPL Cassini-Huygens Mission
    NASA Ames Ring Nodes