Scientists interpreting this complex data have produced two competing scenarios for the early history of Mars. Robert Craddock, geologist with the museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, will discuss what these findings mean in terms of the likelihood of life on the red planet. Conduct you own experiments, design an aircraft, and build and fly your own model airplane. Sky Meadows Park Activities begin at Dusk Join Sean O'Brien, staff astronomer of the Einstein Planetarium, and local amateur astronomers for public telescopic observing at Sky Meadows Park near Paris, Virginia. Gaze into a star-filled sky, away from city lights.
Activities begin at dusk.
Einstein Planetarium Harold Geller, professor at George Mason University, will explain the science of astrobiology, the study of possibilities for life elsewhere in the universe. He will detail the latest findings from the scientific community and the reaction to this new data. Public telescopic observing follows the Monthly Star Lecture, weather and time of sunset allowing.