COM SCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gravitational Lens, W. M. Keck Observatory, Origami
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* students of professor von something * banished from the caltech campus because of their experiments with rockets, etc. * the first us satellite in space, built at jpl * the second in satellite overall after sputnik *jpl hires 800 summer interns every year* History, evolution, and future state of our solar system is p old tbh. Heavy particles are closer to the sun, lighter, gassier particles are further our. Around 30 years ago, it was discovered by the galileo spacecraft that there was a large ocean underneath the ocean of europa. Tested via instruments that measured the magnetic field between europa and jupiter. It measured the exact signature predicted for an ocean beneath europa"s icy surface. Have remarkable methane liquid oceans & other indications of liquid. We didn"t know that there was liquid water outside of earth until a decade ago. We have had continuous robotic presence on mars since 1987.
