Ernest will talk about the Mastcam-Z, the mast-mounted camera system that is equipped with a zoom function on the Perseverance rover. Mastcam-Z has cameras that can zoom in, focus, and take 3D pictures and video at high speed to allow detailed examination of distant objects.
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Location: Prescott Public Library, Founder’s Suite Speaker: Dr. Noel Richardson, Assistant Professor and students at Embry-Riddle University Comments:Dr. Noel Richandson recently led students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in a rare opportunity to travel aboard the world’s largest flying observatory, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to study unusual dust-forming objects called Wolf-Rayet binary systems….
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Late 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into an asteroid at a speed of
more than 13,000 mph. Given this dramatic end, ground based telescopes, including
several at Lowell Observatory, will be tasked with witnessing the aftermath. I will
discuss background to the DART mission, what is expected to happen, and why
smashing into things in outer space can be fun.