Posted by tourdemars to Life on Mars at February 16, 2004 12:00 PM

As NASA’s rovers journey across Mars’s surface and new satellites orbit the planet, a wealth of information on the red planet is now available to the public, said astronomer and author Kenneth Croswell. Croswell spoke at this semester’s first installment of Saturday Morning Physics, a lecture series hosted by the University’s Physics Department. More than 350 people filled two auditoriums in the Dennison Building for the talk — a typical turnout for Saturday Morning Physics, said coordinator and physics Prof. Timothy McKay. Croswell presented material from his new book, “Magnificent Mars.”