Events: detail
Exploring Titan
- Speaker:
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Dr Rosaly Lopes, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
- Starts:
- June 26, 2009 at 07:00 pm
- Ends:
- June 26, 2009 at 08:30 pm
- Location:
- Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Greenwich Park, London, United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Larger than the planet Mercury, Saturn’s giant moon Titan is a world of secrets, permanently shrouded in dense orange clouds. For centuries astronomers have wondered what lay beneath and in 2005 the Cassini-Huygens Mission finally gave us our first breathtaking views of the surface.
In this talk, Rosaly Lopes, Mission Scientist, will take us on a voyage of discovery, revealing Titan’s surreal landscapes of mountains, sand dunes and ice volcanoes, where rivers of liquid methane flow down to vast oily seas.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
For more information
- Contact person:
- NMM
- Email:
- bookings [ at ] nmm.ac.uk
- Website:
- Exploring Titan
