Titan – The Moon where the Sky is Always Cloudy!

Location: Hotel Newport, Main Street Newport F28 YX89

What lies beneath the clouds of a distant moon? For John Zarnecki, helping to answer that question became an adventure spanning nearly twenty years of his life.

Join John for the story of the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan, and the extraordinary challenge of exploring a world far beyond Earth. Drawing on his own involvement, he will share a personal perspective on the work, ingenuity and determination behind this remarkable voyage of discovery.

With a sky that is always cloudy, Titan offers a different setting for thinking about the skies above us. What can we learn when the view is hidden, and how do we build instruments capable of revealing an unfamiliar world?

This is an opportunity to hear about an iconic space mission from someone who helped make it happen: a journey through science, exploration and the human stories behind our efforts to understand the Solar System’s distant worlds.