Magnificent Mars: Ken Croswell speaks in California

In the biggest, most lavishly elegant book about Mars ever published, the
author and astronomer behind Magnificent Universe takes readers on a
spectacular pictorial voyage to the planet that has captured humankind's
imagination for thousands of years. Exploration of the planet Mars has
always posed the question "Are we alone?" As the most earthly planet in the
solar system, Mars has long offered the prospect of another living world
near Earth. Recent spacecraft have painted a picture of a world long ago
that may have been very similar to ours. Dr. Croswell explores both modern
and ancient Mars, and by using the four elements--Earth, Air, Fire, and
Water--unifies the two very different versions of Mars.


Dr. Croswell's next talk will be in Santa Rosa on Wednesday night, April 14.
This talk is free and open to all. For details, see http://KenCroswell.com
and click "Talks."

Hardcover editions of all six of Ken Croswell's books will be available:

The Alchemy of the Heavens (about nucleosynthesis and the Milky Way)
Planet Quest (about extrasolar planets)
Magnificent Universe
See the Stars (constellation guide for beginners)
The Universe at Midnight (about cosmology and the accelerating universe)
Magnificent Mars

Correct email: MagnificentUniverse "at" yahoo "dot" com.

I listened to Dr. Croswell's presentation on CSPAN2 (book TV I believe)
Well worth my time.
Cleardarkskies!
Orion

"Magnificent Universe" wrote in message
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In the biggest, most lavishly elegant book about Mars ever published, the
author and astronomer behind Magnificent Universe takes readers on a
spectacular pictorial voyage to the planet that has captured humankind's
imagination for thousands of years. Exploration of the planet Mars has
always posed the question "Are we alone?" As the most earthly planet in
the
solar system, Mars has long offered the prospect of another living world
near Earth. Recent spacecraft have painted a picture of a world long ago
that may have been very similar to ours. Dr. Croswell explores both
modern
and ancient Mars, and by using the four elements--Earth, Air, Fire, and
Water--unifies the two very different versions of Mars.


Dr. Croswell's next talk will be in Santa Rosa on Wednesday night, April
14.
This talk is free and open to all. For details, see
http://KenCroswell.com
and click "Talks."

Hardcover editions of all six of Ken Croswell's books will be available:

The Alchemy of the Heavens (about nucleosynthesis and the Milky Way)
Planet Quest (about extrasolar planets)
Magnificent Universe
See the Stars (constellation guide for beginners)
The Universe at Midnight (about cosmology and the accelerating universe)
Magnificent Mars

Correct email: MagnificentUniverse "at" yahoo "dot" com.




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I listened to Dr. Croswell's presentation on CSPAN2 (book TV I believe)
Well worth my time.
Cleardarkskies!
Orion

"Magnificent Universe" wrote in message
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In the biggest, most lavishly elegant book about Mars ever published, the
author and astronomer behind Magnificent Universe takes readers on a
spectacular pictorial voyage to the planet that has captured humankind's
imagination for thousands of years. Exploration of the planet Mars has
always posed the question "Are we alone?" As the most earthly planet in
the
solar system, Mars has long offered the prospect of another living world
near Earth. Recent spacecraft have painted a picture of a world long ago
that may have been very similar to ours. Dr. Croswell explores both
modern
and ancient Mars, and by using the four elements--Earth, Air, Fire, and
Water--unifies the two very different versions of Mars.


Dr. Croswell's next talk will be in Santa Rosa on Wednesday night, April
14.
This talk is free and open to all. For details, see
http://KenCroswell.com
and click "Talks."

Hardcover editions of all six of Ken Croswell's books will be available:

The Alchemy of the Heavens (about nucleosynthesis and the Milky Way)
Planet Quest (about extrasolar planets)
Magnificent Universe
See the Stars (constellation guide for beginners)
The Universe at Midnight (about cosmology and the accelerating universe)
Magnificent Mars

Correct email: MagnificentUniverse "at" yahoo "dot" com.




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I saw Croswell speak at the University of Utah at the February 2004
stop of his book tour, sponsored by the Salt Lake Astronomical
Society. Crowsell gave an inspirational popular science lecture, well
illustrated with photographs of martain features and simulated archean
martian environments. At the time, I found his simulated pictures of
Mars covered by an archean northern circumpolar ocean something of a
stretch beyond known science or simpler theories like large meteor
impacts melting continential sized areas of subsurface ice, resulting
in catastrophic floods. All this was before NASA's March 2004
announcement of Mars rover evidence supporting potential evaporation
ponds or lakes at the rover landing sites in equatorial latitudes.
Since March -- I'm not so sure about that permanent archean northern
ocean thing. Time to check that book out.

Croswell's lecture was well worth attending - definitely a couple of
entertaining hours.

The only thing missing from his lecture was a summary of NASA plans
for advanced martian probes, one at high latitude regions - the
Phoenix mission in 2008, the Mars Mobile Laboratory mission in 2009,
and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbitor in March 2006. - Kurt

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...ture/2005.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...e/phoenix.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...uture/msl.html

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I saw Croswell speak at the University of Utah at the February 2004
stop of his book tour, sponsored by the Salt Lake Astronomical
Society. Crowsell gave an inspirational popular science lecture, well
illustrated with photographs of martain features and simulated archean
martian environments. At the time, I found his simulated pictures of
Mars covered by an archean northern circumpolar ocean something of a
stretch beyond known science or simpler theories like large meteor
impacts melting continential sized areas of subsurface ice, resulting
in catastrophic floods. All this was before NASA's March 2004
announcement of Mars rover evidence supporting potential evaporation
ponds or lakes at the rover landing sites in equatorial latitudes.
Since March -- I'm not so sure about that permanent archean northern
ocean thing. Time to check that book out.

Croswell's lecture was well worth attending - definitely a couple of
entertaining hours.

The only thing missing from his lecture was a summary of NASA plans
for advanced martian probes, one at high latitude regions - the
Phoenix mission in 2008, the Mars Mobile Laboratory mission in 2009,
and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbitor in March 2006. - Kurt

http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...ture/2005.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...e/phoenix.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/miss...uture/msl.html