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 Mpls Convention center |
 crowd gathers |
 title slide |
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 Len Kuhi does intros |
 Carolyn Porco |
 crowd |
 Carolyn Porco answers questions |
 Carolyn Porco answers questions |
 Carolyn Porco answers questions |
 Carolyn, Larry Rudnick (conf chair) & Door prize winner |
 Carolyn & Door prize winner |
 Door prize winner & scope prize |
 Carolyn Porco signs an autograph |
 Carolyn Porco signs an autograph |
 Carolyn Porco answers questions |
To see the latest images from Cassini visit Carolyn Porco's imaging team's site at: http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu
or visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/index.cfm
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Kaufmanis Lecture: Carolyn Porco This year's Kaufmanis lecture will be given by Carolyn Porco on May 31st at 8 PM at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The title of her talk is "Adventures in the Promised Land: Cassini in Orbit around Saturn".
Abstract:
A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a ringed, softly-hued planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine descends through a hazy atmosphere and lands on the surface of an alien moon, ten times farther from the Sun than the Earth. Fantastic though they seem, these visions are not a dream. The Cassini spacecraft and its Huygens probe have traveled invisible interplanetary roads to the place we call Saturn. Their successful entry into orbit, the mythic landing of Huygens on the cold, dark equatorial plains of Titan, and Cassini's explorations of the saturnian environment are already the stuff of legend. What they have shown us thus far, and the images they have collected, are being closely examined in the pursuit of precise scientific information on the nature of this very alien planetary system.
Come along for the ride, and witness the sights and magic worked by these emissaries from Earth to the enchanting realm of Saturn.
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