Solar System
2020 Landing Site for Mars Rover Mission
, 8:30 AM - 6:00 PMThis NASA workshop will include oral presentations and discussion related to the science potential of the remaining candidate landing sites: Columbia Hills, Jezero Crater, and NE Syrtis, including an additional landing ellipse within the NE Syrtis region dubbed “Midway.” Midway is located closer
First Fridays at Chabot Space & Science Center
, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PMEach $5 First Friday at Chabot is an exciting and immersive experience for all ages! Join us each month for hands-on activities and live demonstrations that are fun for the whole family. Each month there will be new things to explore!
50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
, 9:00 AM - 7:00 PMThe 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) will be held at The Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, The Woodlands, Texas, March 18–22, 2019.
Science with HabEx: UV to Near-Infrared Space Astronomy in the 2030s
, 12:30 PM - 7:00 PMThe Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) is one of four concepts currently under study by NASA in preparation for the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey.
Becoming Interplanetary: What Living on Earth Can Teach Us about Living on Mars
, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMBecoming Interplanetary
Close-range remote sensing of Saturn's rings during Cassini's ring grazing orbits and grand finale
, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PMWith its 13-year mission at Saturn now complete, Cassini takes its place as the most spectacularly successful interplanetary mission in the history of NASA. It its final 10 months, from December 2016 to September 2017, Cassini transformed itself into a whole new mission with its Ring Grazing Orb
Passage to Mars
, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PMPrepare yourself for an adventure! Before man makes it to Mars, he must conquer the Arctic.
XVIth Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium
, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PMThis workshop directly addresses the scientific goals of the VarSITI project - The International Study of Earth-Affecting Solar Transients (ISEST).
Could this be why our Solar System is odd?
As recently as two decades ago, we thought our Solar System was “normal.” That was a reasonable assumption as long as you didn’t look at it too closely.