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January 14, 2009 - Pasadena, California - See MARS IN 3-D with Mars Scientist/Photographer Jim Bell and Bill Nye the Science Guy!
Come celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Mars Exploration Rovers on January 14 at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena. Planetary Society President Jim Bell, along with our Vice-President Bill Nye the Science Guy, will present "Mars in 3-D."
Bell, author of "Postcards from Mars" and "Mars 3-D," is the leader of the Panoramic Camera color imaging team for the Mars Exploration Rovers. Bell has used his unique perspective to select a visual feast of extraordinary views of Mars, from craters to vast plains, and distant vistas to unusual rock outcroppings. Seeing these images in 3-D on a big screen is the next best thing to standing on the surface of Mars.
Nye will also discuss the past five years of Martian adventure, including The Planetary Society's contribution of sundials to the MER landers. Both Bell, Nye, and Planetary Society Executive Director, Louis Friedman, will be available for questions at a reception following the presentation.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center, 70 North Mentor Avenue, Pasadena, CA. Admission: $10.00. Tickets are available by phone order/credit card purchase only. Please call 626-793-5100.
January 8 and 11 – Miami Beach, Florida - Reflections Series presents the New York and Florida premieres of Falling Bodies, an original work of music-theatre. Falling Bodies integrates actors and musicians in an imagined meeting between the 16th-century Italian scientist-poet Galileo Galilei, the "father of modern science"; and the 20th-century Italian poet-scientist Primo Levi, author of "Survival at Auschwitz" and "The Truce". Dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa, watching soccer on TV in a bar, listening to a concert in a village café, the two ponder their own searches for truth during lives marked by inquisition and despair, the price one pays for survival, and the restorative power of art. As the two wander and share scientific experiments and difficult memories, they are joined by a trio of musicians. Together, the five performers explore questions of faith and politics, science and art, combining the tools of theatre with the intimacy of chamber music.
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