20410721 - Space exploration and planetary physics

Acquire skills on the history and evolution of space exploration aimed at developing instruments capable of investigating the planets subsurface, with particular interest to future robotic and human missions on the Moon and Mars and in search of biological traces.
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Programme

Origin of the solar system, planets and minor bodies. History of space exploration with automatic probes. The Apollo missions and the first lunar geophysical measurements. Development of radars for the study of the terrestrial and Martian poles. Seismic measurements on the Moon, Mars and Venus. Missions to Jupiter's icy moons. The future of space missions.

Core Documentation

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Type of delivery of the course

Lessons take place in the classroom, in traditional mode

Type of evaluation

The exam takes place only through an oral interview