Watch & discuss recent space events-Watch The Martian @ Warren Theatre afterward
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Liquid salty water is currently flowing on Mars during the summers! The NASA photo on left in the "group photo" slot shows the dark wet streak.
As a way of participating in World Space Week, proclaimed by the United Nations as October 4-10 each year, we're planning a shorter meeting, with some of us going on to the nearby Warren Theatre to see The Martian. (Be aware that the very realistic novel, and presumably the movie, is full of profanity--as you'd expect from an engineer/botanist abandoned on Mars with a torn spacesuit and not much to help him survive. See trailer below.
"World Space Week
Since its United Nations declaration in 1999, World Space Week has grown into the largest public space event on Earth. More than 1,400 events in 80 countries celebrated the benefits of space and excitement about space exploration in 2014. With our new deep space discoveries theme “Discovery” we aim to inspire even more events around the world in October 2015."
“The General Assembly declares 4 to 10 October World Space Week to celebrate each year at the international level the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition”
UN General Assembly resolution, 6 December 1999
Watch & discuss recent space events-Watch The Martian @ Warren Theatre afterward