Live Tweeting of April 16th Mars Curiosity Rover Lecture. Can’t attend? Tweet your questions!

Flyer for Extraterrestrial Real Estate Assessment: Measuring Habitability on Mars with the Curiosity Rover with Dr. Pamela Conrad.

I do not need to convince you that the interest in the Mars Curiosity Rover is sky-high!  On Tuesday April 16, 2013 we are hosting a lecture at the Library with NASA’s Dr. Pamela Conrad who will discuss habitability on Mars based on findings from the Curiosity Rover. For those of you who cannot attend, our Twitter account @librarycongress will live tweet Dr. Conrad’s April 16th talk at the Library from 11:30-12:30 EST using the hashtag #LCCuriosity.  

If you have questions for Dr. Conrad we invite you to tweet them using #LCCuriosity.  We can’t promise that all questions will be answered live at the event, however we will write another post that will answer as many questions as reasonable in a follow up here on Inside Adams. If we use your question during the lecture, we’ll state your question you posed and it will be recorded as part of the webcast. Some questions may be consolidated for the purpose of streamlining answers.

The event is being digitally captured for later broadcast on the Library’s website and other media. To keep up to date on What’s New in Science (such as new webcasts or upcoming lectures) you can sign up for our RSS/ Email Subscription feed.

 

Location! Location! Location! on Mars with the Curiosity Rover

ST&B & NASA Goddard Speakers Series begins its 7th Year on April 16, 2013 with Extraterrestrial Real Estate Assessment: Measuring Habitability on Mars with the Curiosity Rover with Dr. Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist and mineralogist, at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. [Update- For those of you who cannot attend, our Twitter account @librarycongress will live tweet Dr. …

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Getting to Know Sir Arthur C. Clarke

March 19 will mark the 5 year anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke.  I would not be writing this blog post if it were not for the curiosity of one of our volunteers, Richard Halada, a local high school physics teacher. Richard was retrieving a book for us in the Adams’ Building …

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Wishing upon the Shooting Stars: The Geminid Meteor Shower

Have you been wishing for something and it hasn’t come true? Well you are in luck. The Geminid meteor shower will be giving us plenty of shooting stars (meteors) to wish upon from Dec. 4-17, and according to Ptolemy (1st century A.D.), when there are shooting stars the gods will be looking down on us …

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A Special Kind of Moon

There is something about a full moon that affects us (sometimes literally!) and our admiration of it can be found in art, literature, music, and poetry.  The full moon is revered in many cultures across the globe.  In North America, tribes of Native Americans gave varying names to the full moons according to the season, …

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Transit of Venus: The Unsung Heroes

The following is a guest post by Dr. Sten Odenwald, NASA/ National Institute of Aerospace, who presented a lecture on the Transit of Venus at the Library of Congress on May 8, 2012. You can view his lecture on our webcast page and Youtube channel. On June 5th, 2012 most people will have the opportunity …

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The “Stars” of Titanic

I answer a fair share of questions from authors, historians, and filmmakers who are trying to find weather or astronomical observations for a particular time and place so they can accurately describe a moment in time. You can imagine my delight when I read that film director James Cameron will be including a historically accurate …

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Loving the Stars- Telescopes, from Galileo to James Webb

Today’s post is from science reference librarian  Margaret Clifton.  She is also the author of Saving Energy: The Fall Back Position, Stars in his Eyes and Sun Spots this Summer.  I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night – Sarah Willams (1837-1868)* In February of 2010 I wrote a post  for Inside …

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The Christmas Star

When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. (Matthew 2:1-10) During a recent staff meeting, I asked my colleagues for …

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Saving Energy: The Fall Back Position

Today’s post is from science reference librarian  Margaret Clifton.  She is also the author of Stars in his Eyes and Sun Spots this Summer.  She has created the  LC Science Tracer Bullet on Time , which will be helpful to those who are interested in horology (art and science of meauring time). Daylight Saving Time (DST) in this country ends this year on …

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