Planetary Science Seminar Winter-2018

In the 2020’s, spacecraft are planned to visit a diverse selection of minor bodies with sizes from hundreds of meters to hundreds of kilometers. These spacecraft include NASA’s OSIRIS-REx, Psyche and Lucy as well as JAXA’s Hayabysa-2 and MMX missions. In this talk, I will discuss the main geophysical results of the Dawn mission in its exploration of asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres and how this knowledge could inform the future missions.