Kimberly Ennico Smith and Michael Person Talk About Steering SOFIA Through Triton’s Shadow

Published: Dec. 14, 2017, 10:32 p.m.

A conversation with Kimberly Ennico Smith, the project scientist for the SOFIA mission at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and Michael Person, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discussing the science behind using an occultation to learn more about objects in space, such as Neptune’s moon Triton.