Please join the Department of Physics & Astronomy at 12:10 pm on Tuesday, February 14 in Center for Natural Sciences 206/208 for a talk entitled "Shooting the Moon" by Dr. Zoe Learner Ponterio from the Cornell Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility. Pizza will be served!
Shooting the Moon
Just one year after the first photograph of a human was taken, the first image through a telescope was captured, and the subject of that first astrophotograph was the Moon. Now, robotic spacecraft carrying state-of-the art cameras send back images of newly explored worlds from billions of miles away, but our fascination with our nearest neighbor in the vastness of space has only grown. We still strive to capture its serene beauty, and even in the pure pursuit of science we cannot help but create art.