David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, will speak on the subject on Tuesday 9 March at 6pm in lecture hall BS 1.03 on Campus Limpertsberg.

With the start of the space age, both the universe and the Earth changed or, at least, mankind's perception of both dramatically changed. 50 years or so on we can wonder at the vast increase in our knowledge of the Earth, solar system, and the stars and galaxies that access to space has provided. Space also gave us our first capacity to look at our own planet in a truly global manner and to think of the Earth as a tiny constituent of the Cosmos as a whole and perhaps to wonder how it came to be. The progress brought by space in understanding the universe and our part in it will be reviewed and questions posed about what should be Europe’s role in the future.
David Southwood, ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration and leader of the team that built the Cassini magnetometer for the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission, now orbiting Saturn, will speak on the subject next Tuesday 9 March at 18:00 in lecture hall BS1.03 on Campus Limpertsberg.