The leading astrophysicist Thanasis Oikonomou at NOISIS
The lecture by the Chicago State University Astrophysics professor and NASA partner will take place on Saturday, September 3.
The innovative A-particle and X-ray scattering spectrometer used on missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond, and located in installation of NOEISISis one of the instruments built by leading astrophysicist Thanasis Oikonomou to study it Space.
In this, but also in the same part of the construction of the dust flux monitoring instrument on the Cassini missions to Saturn, Stardust and Stardust Next, which Mr. Oikonomou mentioned during his speech at NOISIS.
The lecture by the professor of Astrophysics of Chicago State University and partner of NASA, on Saturday September 3, 2022 at 19.00 (arrival time 18.30), with the co-organization of the Philos Astronomy Group at the NOISIS Amphitheater. The topic of Mr. Economos’ speech concerns the remote detection of the soil of the Moon with the Surveyor spacecraft, as well as the soil of Mars as well as the use of radioactive HgI (mercury iodide)
A modern explorer of the stars
Thanasis Oikonomou is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Chicago and a researcher at NASA.
His name has been associated with Space and three interplanetary missions: Cassini to Saturn and the Rosetta mission to Comet 67R / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. He also participated in the Stardust mission and Stardust-NEXT to probe Tempel 1. He created the Alpha Proton, an X-ray spectrometer that successfully completed the first chemical analysis of Martian rocks with the Mars Pathfinder in 1997. He studied at the University of Nuclear Physics in Prague and Worked in several Czechoslovak research centers. He then participated from his research position at the University of Chicago, in the team that prepared the mission to the Moon.
Thanasis Oikonomou has made a decisive contribution to the construction of the Asteroscope in Grevena, on Mount Orliaka in Pindos, an area of particular beauty, clarity and place of origin.
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