June 2009

June 5: Monthly Meeting

Mars in 3D!

Robert Naeye

Skyscrapers is pleased to have Sky & Telescope Editor in Chief, Robert Naeye, as our monthly speaker. He will present the latest and best images of Mars in realistic 3-Dimensions. Robert will provide updates on the status of the various ongoing Mars missions, and explain what we have learned about the history of water on the Red Planet. NASA missions, such as Mars Global Surveyor and the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, have shown that liquid water once flowed on Mars. On Earth, wherever we find liquid water, we also find life. 3D viewers will be provided.

Robert Naeye is Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope, the worlds most respected and influential popular astronomy magazine. Robert has a Master’s degree in science journalism from Boston University (1992), and later worked on the editorial staffs of Discover and Astronomy magazine. After serving as Editor in Chief of Mercury magazine (published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific) from 2000 to 2003, he was a Senior Editor at Sky & Telescope from 2003 to 2007. He then went to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as a Senior Science Writer for the Astrophysics Science Division. In 2008, he returned to Sky & Telescope to serve as Editor in Chief.

Robert Naeye is the author of Through the Eyes of Hubble: The Birth, Life, and Violent Death of Stars (Kalmbach, 1997) and Signals from Space: The Chandra X-ray Observatory (Turnstone, 2000). He also contributed to two other books, and has won several awards for his writing and outreach activities.