  SHARC II, 350-micron continuum and archival HST J-H band maps are presented
of NGC 3656, the brightest of our sample of six elliptical galaxies for which
resolved CO gas disks have recently been detected with 7''-spatial-resolution,
interferometry mapping. These gas disks confirm the conclusions of earlier
results showing optical dust lanes and unresolved CO that implied the common
existence of molecular gas in ellipticals and the disk-like structure of this
gas. The presented SHARC II mapping results provide the best to date resolved
FIR-submm extent of NGC 3656 and of any elliptical galaxy > 40 Mpc, showing
that dust of 29 K exists out to at least 1.8 kpc in this galaxy. These new data
are used in conjunction with the archival HST maps and other published data to
determine dust properties and associations with galactic structures, including
dominant heating sources such as nuclear-activity, star-formation or
diffuse-stellar radiation.
