Death Valley Dark Sky Festival 2024
Public talks
Tags: SETI Institute, Astronomy, Unistellar
Time: 01 - 03 March 2024 -
Location: Death Valley National Park
Something extraordinary will happen in Death Valley on March 1 – 3: Mark your calendar for the Death Valley Dark Sky Festival!
Join SETI Institute researchers at the Death Valley Dark Sky Festival in Furnace Creek, CA, and at other locations inside this otherworldly desert landscape.
The Death Valley Dark Sky Festival, in collaboration with the Death Valley National Park, includes science talks from renowned scientists, field trips, Night sky events, and an Exploration Fair with the SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, other NASA centers, JPL, and Caltech booths. For more information:
https://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/death-valley-dark-sky -festival.htm
https://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/news/2024-dark-sky-festival.htm
SETI Institute-led activities will include an exploration fair to showcase field research done in planetary analog environments to support the search for life in our Solar System and the universe. Rosalba Bonaccorsi, a SETI Institute astrobiologist, will lead an exploration trip to the Ubehebe Crater - a Mars analog site and its relation to Gale Crater on Mars.
A SETI Institute/Unistellar team led by Dr. Ian Weaver will introduce the general public to observations of our Sun at the Exploration Fair on Saturday. If the weather cooperates, there will also be night sky observations Friday and Saturday of galaxies, nebulae, and comets using the Unistellar telescopes, including the recently released ODYSSEY.