Date and Time
Monday Jan 29, 2018
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST
Mon. Jan. 29th 6pm
Location
Port Orchard Market/The Dock Bar & Eatery
Fees/Admission
Free presentation Food and beverages for order
Contact Information
Coreen Haydock
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Description
Searching For Martians Mars may have been habitable before Earth and might be still--so where are the Martians? We’ll discuss the history and current state of our nearby neighbor and examine the possibilities of life in its past, present, and future. Bob Abel is a Port Orchard resident, aProfessor of Physics at Olympic College and a DIRAC Fellow at the UW’s DIRAC (Data Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology) Institute. He has an M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Space Physics. Bob is currently working on atmospheric compensation techniques for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), scheduled to begin operation in 2022.
