February 2016
Author Marianne Dyson’s Science Snacks Newsletter
Hello, and thanks for subscribing to my monthly Science Snacks newsletter. I hope to see some of you at my upcoming appearances (listed below) and share space stories with you!
Category: 2016 Science Snacks
Marianne Dyson’s monthly Science Snacks newsletters posted in 2016.
Liquid Water on Mars
January 2016
Author Marianne Dyson’s Science Snacks Newsletter
Hello, and a special welcome to the new subscribers who signed up at Kennedy Space Center. Each month I pick one short science news or fact to share. I hope to see many of you again at future space or writing events where we can discuss our space stories!
Buzz & I signed Welcome to Mars at Kennedy Space Center on December 19, 2015 with help from Christina (Santa hat), & ShareSpace team of Linn, Rob, & Bob.
Liquid Water on Mars
On September 28, 2015, Georgia Tech grad student Lujendra Ojha published her evidence of liquid water on the surface of Mars. That same week, the first print run of Welcome to Mars was nearly sold out. Our editor at NatGeo suggested we reflect the water discovery in the second print run. So I asked myself, what impact does finding liquid water have to our plans to settle Mars?
It wasn