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Dr. Jill Tarter for Popular Science

Brad Wenner Photo @bradwenner.photo · Aug 7 Lassen County, California, US

Dr. Jill Tarter at the SETI research facility in the moutnains of California. She is wearing a bright orange shirt and a cowboy hat in front of a large piece of astronomy equipment

Dr. Jill Tarter at the SETI research facility in the moutnains of California. She is standing beneath a piece of research equipment

Dr. Jill Tarter at the SETI research facility in the moutnains of California. She is standing in the datacenter room that processes the organization's astronomy research

Dr. Jill Tarter for Popular Science

From my archives: when Popular Science was still an actual magazine, they sent me to the remote SETI research facility to photograph founding astronomer Dr. Jill Tarter. Besides being a renowned scientist she was also the inspiration for the book/movie Contact.

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