SPEAKER: Dr. Christopher Edwards, NAU
LOCATION: Prescott Public Library
COMMENTS: Ever since early humans walked the Earth, we have explored our surroundings, whether for subsistence, acquisition of property, or intellectual reasons. Despite our Earthly accomplishments, no other endeavor has inspired humankind quite like the exploration of outer space.
On this tour of the exploration our solar system, we’ll focus on recent findings from Mars due to the wealth and diversity of data returned from spacecraft in the past two decades. New and exciting discoveries paint Mars as an active and potentially habitable world, which we are just beginning to understand.
Dr. Edwards, an exceptional speaker, presented an extremely entertaining, informative and in-depth view into about what we have learned about the “red” planet. Although there are always great challenges, mysteries and unknowns when exploring at such vast distance from earth, the amount of understanding we have gleaned from our rovers and space craft is incredible. The geological similarities between Mars and Earth is astonishing and with a more suitable atmosphere, other than it’s 1% that of earths’ and consisting of CO2, Mars might just be a suitable place for mankind to visit on vacation, especially an avid thrill seeker and adventurer!
Approximately 70 people attended and the following photo shows the warm and cheerful atmosphere Dr. Edwards created with his pleasant personality, sense of humor and incredible knowledge of Mars.. We hope he will in the future when even more information is uncovered.
