NSSL's Ambassador to Jupiter

In October 1997, Loretta McKibben was named by the Jet Propulsion Lab and NASA to be Oklahoma's first "Ambassador to Jupiter" in a public educational outreach program for the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter. Two ambassadors are chosen from applicants in each state to provide educational activities and workshops for students and teachers and host public speeches and activities to inform the general public about knowledge learned from Galileo. Two public events have been held so far with four more planned in 1998, in addition to workshops for teachers and students in Oklahoma school systems. Loretta and NSSL are sponsoring the "Weather Around the Solar System" home page on the WWW as a part of this project , which compares and contrasts the weather patterns and weather phenomena of planets in our solar system that have atmospheres.