Season 5, Episode 16:Meet a Space Weather Scientist
22 Oct 2021, 20:10 GMT
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/gravity-assist/gravity-assist-meet-a-space-weather-scientist-with-yaireska-collado-vega/
Yaireska Collado-Vega leads a team at NASA’s Goddard Spacecraft Center that is studying the solar weather environment so that robots and people exploring space can be protected. In this episode of Gravity Assist, she describes the excitement and challenges of understanding space weather, and how she got to be a NASA scientist.