Jill Tarter
Director of the Center for SETI Research
Jill Tarter is Director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. She served as Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program, the High Resolution Microwave Survey, and has conducted numerous observational programs at radio observatories worldwide. Since the termination of funding for NASA’s SETI program in 1993, she has served in a leadership role to secure private funding to continue the exploratory science. Her astronomical work was illustrated in Carl Sagan's 1985 novel "Contact." The character largely based on Tarter, "Ellie Arroway," was portrayed by Jodie Foster in the 1997 film version of "Contact."
Do aliens dream about meeting us, too?
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If women ran the world, different things would be engineered and invented. Unfortunately, many female scientists get sidetracked.
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From our leakage radiation, an alien would be able to tell quite a bit about the planet, including the length of our day, the size of the planet, and even […]
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The potential detection of signals from outer space raises many questions. What’s the overarching plan? Who would speak on behalf of our planet? What would they say?
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Researchers at SETI are using radio telescopes to listen specifically for signals that are “obviously engineered”—something that nature, at least as far as we know, can’t produce.
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Jill Tarter is trying to find an answer to a question people have asked forever: is there life on other planets?
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A conversation with the Director of the Center for SETI Research.
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