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Math Awareness Month 2005: Mathematics and the Cosmos
Colloquium

Titan Touchdown
Lisa McFarlane
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Department of Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona
Wednesday, 20 April 2005
2:00 PM
Math 402

There has been tremendous interest and excitement surrounding the recent mission to Saturn's moon Titan. The DISR instrument, based at the University of Arizona, took all those strange but somehow familiar images as it fell towards the surface of Titan almost a billion miles away. Dr. Lisa McFarlane, DISR imaging team member, will give a presentation to share some of the excitement surrounding this mission, including images from the descent to Titan and a few photos and personal experiences from the encounter in Europe. The presentation will include a sense of what the DISR instrument was supposed to do and how well it performed. Work in progress will be touched upon and a few assembled collections of images, not yet released, will be shown.

Event submitted 25 Mar 2005 by Bruce J Bayly.
Last updated 13 Apr 2005.

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