Perseids Meteor ShowerHang out on the hill and watch as the Perseids Meteor Shower makes it annual trip through our atmosphere and light up the night sky. Visibility may be obscured by the waning gibbous (nearly full) moon, but our scientists will be ready to help you catch the brightest meteors.
Where: OaklandCost: Free
Investigations of strange, linear features on Mars (AKA playing with dry ice blocks in the Utah desert) Comparative geomorphology is a standard and highly useful approach in determining the origin of features seen on planetary surfaces. However, this approach sometimes can point interpretations into the wrong direction - the specific and sometimes highly unique conditions found on another planet cannot be neglected in the analysis! In particular, ...
Weather on earth-such as thunderstorms, lightning, humidity, and drought-has a large impact on our everyday existence and is part of our daily conversations. However, there is also "space weather", which is characterized by numerous phenomena, including hurricane-force winds, large temperature variations, and large-scale storms.Space weather is complicated by the presence ...
