From May 20 through 25, the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2012 was held at the international exhibition hall of Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. NAOJ ALMA participated in the event by presenting posters at a booth. Many of the visitors asked about the current status of the ALMA project and images obtained with ALMA.

The picture shows Masaaki Hiramatsu, EPO Officer at the NAOJ Chile Observatory, explaining the ALMA telescope and mysteries of the universe explored by ALMA.