UMinho receives head of mission to Pluto – Correio do Minho

UMinho receives head of mission to Pluto

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Alice Bowman, the woman who led the NASA mission to Pluto, is tomorrow at the School of the University of Minho Sciences for a talk about your experience and challenges in space. The session, entitled ‘Reaching for New Horizons’, is at 15:30 pm in the amphitheater B1 campus of Gualtar. The initiative has the support of the US Embassy in Portugal. Admission is free with prior registration to sec @ Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. uminho.pt.
 The world was surprised in July with the first images of the dwarf planet Pluto, thanks to New Horizons probe space agency NASA. Alice Bowman worked since 2001 for the success of this journey of 5.7 billion kilometers.

“fulfilled a childhood dream. Thank you all, and please say to the children and to anyone to do something that they are in love, surrender to this challenge and will not hurt, “he said at the time the US physics, which is known for ‘ Mom ‘, the abbreviated ture from office’ Mission operational rations manager ‘and the loving way to’ mother ‘.
 The New Horizons follows extra-mission to try to reach in 2019 a small icy rock beyond Pluto. It will be the first lander to closely study a body of the Kuiper belt, in the outer solar system.

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 eressa up since childhood by space science and thought to be an astronaut, but feels safer on dry land. Wanted to have a challenging profession and “hard ways” in college, investigating, for example, drug delivery systems, computer simulations and infrared detectors. The scientist career at Johns Hopkins University led to the opportunity of a lifetime:. Lead the operations team of the historic mission to Pluto

Alice Bowman well coordinated robotic probe with the longest trip ever, trying to keep the team focused on a project than a decade throughout the solar system and dealing with unforeseen technical long distance, how to get the data with five hours apart.
 There were also memorable moments, including using solar panels of the probe to redirect the route next to Mercury, capture the erupting volcano on the moon, near Jupiter or, of course, find out heart shape on the surface of Pluto.
 For young scientists and engineers, the board of Alice Bowman is: “Choose a career for which they have passion; do not miss an opportunity arising out of the ‘comfort zone’; explore and learn about different things; know that hard work pays off; and do not limit your dreams. “

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