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.