Joseph Veverka
Joseph Veverka
Joseph Veverkais the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, professor of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on physical studies of satellite surfaces and planetary rings. Veverka was the principal investigator on the NASA Discovery Program mission CONTOUR, a co-investigator of the Deep Impact space mission to Comet Tempel 1, and is the principal investigator on the NASA Discovery Mission of Opportunity, Stardust-NeXT. He is the recipient...
close figure sky unless
When we see comets up in the sky they're really spectacular. But unless you get close to a comet, you can't really figure out what's going on.
damn frozen layered
The damn thing is layered like a frozen onion.