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Profile: Jill Tarter, Astronomer, SETI

Profile: Jill Tarter, Astronomer, SETI

| November 8, 2011 | 0 Comments

Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter is an American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research. The mission of the SETI Institute (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe. Tarter’s astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan’s novel Contact.

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