Next Meeting Presentation

4 Sept. 2025 – Club Meeting Presentation
— Thursday night, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

This free speaker presentation will be offered in-person at the
UNC-Asheville Reuter Center and virtually online. Registration is not required; use this Zoom link to watch the presentation remotely.

Although parking for this meeting at the Reuter Center is free, you must register your vehicle with a “Visitor 5pm – 6am” permit type
at this link. Once registration is complete, visitors will not need to print or display a permit; the new system utilizes camera-based License Plate Recognition technology. All vehicles must park front-end in, so that the license plate is visible.

An Astronomy Guest Speaker Series Event – a collaboration of the Astronomy Club of Asheville and UNC-Asheville

Mars Machines: A Brief History of Robots on Mars

– presented by
David Johnston
,

NASA Solar System Ambassador

In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli first identified “canali” on Mars. Since then, humans have been obsessed with exploring Mars. But Mars is an unfriendly place for humans; so we send our machines to explore. This is a brief history of those robotic machines and what they’ve found.