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Mark Showalter is like the Moon Whisperer. How can any single person these days discover six moons and three planetary rings?

• kartikkumar 12y ago
  You've gotta see him in action; he gives great talks. Here's a recording of his SETI talk on the discovery of Styx and Kerberos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6t51YPOuSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6t51YPOuSA (I worked on Uranus' moon Mab, which is mentioned at the start of the talk). If you get the chance to see him live, I'd definitely recommend it. Unfortunately, he's very busy, so even during my PhD I haven't had many chances to sit down with him. The coolest thing to me is that Mark is a dynamicist actually, but has such a deep understanding of instrumentation and image processing that he can attack new discoveries from both sides. Good example of why it serves to have many tools in your toolbox.