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Posted by Knap on April 30, 2007, 12:49 am
Please log in for more thread options nevertheless it was a stunning achievement I still revel at -
maybe its just me but it seemed to represent a hallmark event
in celestial navigation and technology that should become the
standard for future operations and opportunities ?
Coppy Littlehouse wrote:
> You posted an invite to a lecture for the 25th on the 26th ? The
> lecture was yesterday. Thanks.
>
> On Apr 26, 8:52 am, baa...@earthlink.net wrote:
> > Caltech New Release
> > For Immediate Release
> > April 25, 2007
> >
> > Watson Lecture: Cassini-Huygens at Saturn
> >
> > PASADENA, Calif.--Saturn's iconic image as a ringed planet is both
> > the symbol and the product of scientific discovery. For millennia the
> > planet appeared to be just a drifting dot in the heavens, until a
> > primitive telescope showed Galileo Galilei that Saturn had "ears."
> > Since then each closer view of the planet with better technology has
> > exposed new and unexpected features.
> >
> > The current Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has already produced a
> > string of new discoveries, changing our understanding of the planet's
> > diverse rings and moons, and yielding insight into the early history
> > of Earth and our solar system. Dennis Matson of the California
> > Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will
> > describe some of these findings on Wednesday, April 25, in the third
> > program of the winter/spring 2007 Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series.
> >
> > "It was a real shock when the Huygens probe landed on Titan, Saturn's
> > largest moon, and the landscape that it found looked very much like
> > that of a stream-produced alluvial fan," Matson said. "So far away
> > and yet so much like the Earth!"
> >
> > Matson will present his lecture, "Cassini-Huygens at Saturn:
> > Discovery of New Worlds, Some Familiar and Some Alien," at 8 p.m. in
> > Beckman Auditorium, 332 S. Michigan Avenue, south of Del Mar
> > Boulevard, on the Caltech campus in Pasadena. Seating is available on
> > a free, no-ticket-required, first-come, first-served basis.
> >
> > Matson is a senior research scientist at JPL, and also project
> > scientist for the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan.
> > Cassini-Huygens is a joint project between NASA, the European Space
> > Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency.
> >
> > Caltech has offered the Watson Lecture Series since 1922, when the
> > late Caltech physicist Earnest Watson conceived it as a way to
> > explain science to the local community.
> >
> > For more information, call (626) 395-4652. Outside the greater
> > Pasadena
> > area, call toll-free, 1(888) 2CALTECH (1-888-222-5832).
> >
> > ###
> >
> > Contact: John Avery
> > (626) 395-8736
> > jfav...@caltech.edu
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