September 14, 2010:
Space Imagery: JPL's Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan
The most ambitious spacecraft ever to visit another planet arrived at Saturn in 2004, landed a probe on surface of the moon Titan in 2005, and continues its mission to explore Saturn, its rings, and over sixty moons. This evening's presentation will highlight science results from the mission thus far utilizing breathtaking imagery and animations. Science highlights include the discovery of water geysers emanating from the tiny moon Enceladus (now considered one of the best places to search for extraterrestrial life) and the huge moon Titan - now a contender to Mars as perhaps the most Earth-like body in the solar system.
Our speaker, John Smith, is an aerospace engineer with a Masters in Celestial Mechanics (the motion of heavenly bodies) and has spent 25 years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA designing missions to explore the planets. He has worked on successful missions to Venus, Earth, and Mars and has worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan for 14 years. Active public speaker for NASA outreach and contributor to the book "Science of Dune". Designer of the four-year "tour" of the Saturn system, which began in 2004, and recently contributed to the design of mission extensions through 2017.
September's event will be held starting a 7pm, at the Showbiz Café in Westwood. The Showbiz Café is located at 500 S Sepulveda Blvd., between Wilshire and Sunset just accross from the San Diego Fwy near the Getty Center. Showbiz offers a wide range of Mac and Windows products, specially targeted at the motion picture industry. (map) Food and drinks will be served.
LADiG Blog:
Photos from August 10th’s Downtown LA Photowalk.
We had a wonderful time downtown last night with Annie Laskey of the LA Conservancy.
I setup a Flickr Group for the event, if you’re on Flickr please join and contribute some photos.
I also posted a short video clip on YouTube.
Here is also a link to photos from Jim DiModica.
If you aren’t on Flickr but would like us to link to your photos, please email your link to webmaster@ladig.org.
Published on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:51:07 +0000 by hermosawave
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