🛰️*Incoming Transmission* -- **Prepared for blast off** We're celebrating the Mars Rover Perseverance landing with the debut of our new Explorer Lab! Check out the re-vamped site for the Explorer Lab program here: https://buff.ly/2l3vsSr and learn how you can bring this beautiful, space-ious mobile laboratory to your school!
From the top to the bottom of the world, the poles present a landscape alien to most life on Earth. Host to unique ecosystems where the sun never rises during winter and never sets during summer, and night skies ripple with sinuous glowing bands of auroral light, human polar exploration has a rich past of both triumph and tragedy. More importantly, the poles not only host life found nowhere else on the planet, they are also the best indicators of accelerating global climate change that is rapidly occurring on our home planet. Together we will explore these implications and more in "A Tale of Two Poles".
This exhibit will look at how life on Earth has always been an inspiration for imagining life on other planets, in science fiction as well as in scientific research. Scientists study “extremophiles” or organisms that can live in deadly conditions for more living species. The exhibit adapts alien imagery from David’s best- selling book, “Alien Worlds: Your Guide to Extraterrestrial Life” published by National Geographic. Opening 2023.
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David is an onscreen commentator for this fascinating look at the life of Chesley Bonestell, whom David knew and visited at his Carmel, CA studio.
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“Postcards from the Future” Feature Article Sky & Telescope Sept. 2019 Groundbreaking space artist Chesley Bonestell painted the future that we live in today.
“Freaky Facts About the Moon” explores things you never knew about our mysterious neighbor in the sky. Text & Illustrations from newly released “LUNA: The Science and Stories of Our Moon”. https://kids.nationalgeographic.com
"The Aaron Harber Show TM" is a weekly public affairs television program promoting mutually respectful civil discourse and open forum discussion of big picture issues. http://harbertv.com/Aguilar
Mad Art Lab: Art of the Gaps 2: Extraterrestrial Life? David Aguilar is an astrophysicist/artist with a passion for public outreach. He’s funneled all of these skills into several National Geographic popular science books of a kind that are like crack for curious kids. His book, "ALIEN WORLDS: YOUR GUIDE TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE," required a huge amount of research and speculation about the types of life that might be living on a wide variety of alien worlds. The research led to 3-D mock ups of organisms and lavish renderings of life forms set within their distinct alien environments. A teacher could easily develop an exciting multidisciplinary lesson plan with project from this book and video.
http://madartlab.com/art-of-the-gaps-2-extraterrestrial-life/
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“Alien Worlds” interview on NPR's Here & Now
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