Past Event
Friday, March 7, 2014, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
LIFE at MiraCosta College Lectures
One Barnard Drive, Oceanside, 92056
Age Limit: 18+
Cost: Free
1pm: “The Mysterious Easter Island” with Teri Sowell, Ph. D, UCSD faculty.
Learn more about one of the most fascinating cultures in the South Pacific, including the mysteries behind the iconic stone giants that dominate Easter Island’s landscape.
2:30pm: “Space Exploration” with Lyford Rome, NASA/JPL Ambassador.
The Kepler Mission is a NASA Discovery Program launched in March 2009 for detecting potentially life-supporting planets around other stars in our galaxy. All of the planets detected so far by other projects are giant planets. Kepler is poised to find planets 30 to 600 times less massive than Jupiter. Is there life on other planets?