PIA19029: MESSENGER's Encounter With A Star


MESSENGER’s Encounter With A Star

Caption:

Thomas Morgan Robertson, better known to music fans as Thomas Dolby, has joined Johns Hopkins University as an honorary Homewood Professor of the Arts. In early January 2015, he came to JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory to give a talk about his life as a pop star and tech entrepreneur. (Dolby co-authored the audio layer of Java, created the first interactive music sites on the Web, and licensed technology to major mobile phone manufacturers for the embedded software synthesis 'polyphonic' ringtone engine that has shipped on billions of phones.) His most recent album, "Map of the Floating City," was released in 2011.

During his visit to APL, Dolby toured the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center and posed with a model of the spacecraft. Photo by Ed Whitman, APL.

Background Info:

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Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mercury
System
Target Type Planet
Mission MESSENGER
Instrument Host MESSENGER
Host Type Orbiter
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Color, Map
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2015-01-26
Date in Caption
Image Credit NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19029
Identifier PIA19029