The History of Water on Mars and What it Means for Life
4:00 p.m. Discovery Station (in front of Welcome Center)
5:15 p.m. Lecture in the Albert Einstein Planetarium
6:30 p.m. Telescope observing at Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory, weather permitting
Dried river beds and valleys that were carved out by floods suggest that water once flowed on Mars’s surface. But does this mean that there was life on Mars?
Smithsonian's Stars lectures are suitable for ages 13 and up.
The Smithsonian’s Stars Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from NASA.
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