@ Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Dr. Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will give a free, illustrated, non-technical talk on: ”When Mars Was Like Earth: Five Years of Exploration with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover”
The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series at Foothill College, now in its 18th year.
More than five years after its dramatic arrival at Mars, the car-sized Curiosity rover continues to reveal Mars as a once-habitable planet. Early in Mars' history, rivers and lakes persisted for millions of years and created the landforms that Curiosity explores today.
