LSUS to try ‘Mars Star Party’ again 09/11/03

The LSUS Physics Department will try its “Mars Star Party” again Tuesday from 9:30 to 11 p.m. (weather permitting) on the grass between the Science Building and Administration Building on the LSUS campus. Uncooperative weather “clouded out” the previous attempt two weeks earlier.

“With a little help from our friends, students and especially the weather,” says Dr. Cindy Sisson, associate professor of physics and chair of the Chemistry/Physics Department, “we’ll have several telescopes set up for public viewing of Mars. This will be three weeks after Earth and Mars had their closest encounter in 60,000 years, but Mars should still be a spectacular sight as it rises into view.”

On hand for the party will be new LSUS faculty member Dr. Laura Whitlock, an astrophysicist who worked for a number of years at NASA.

Ample free parking is available in the lots south of the Administration and Science buildings. LSUS is located between Youree Drive and East Kings Highway south of Bert Kouns Industrial Loop in southeast Shreveport.