LSUS professor to show, discuss Mars rover images
02/12/04

Mars isn’t just the “red” planet anymore; striking new pictures from the surface of Earth’s closest planetary neighbor vividly show other colors, too.

Dr. Cran Lucas, an LSUS professor of biological sciences and president of the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, will display and discuss the latest information and images from NASA’s Mars rovers at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, in the LSUS Science Lecture Auditorium. Lucas invites everyone to “see Mars in color and 3-D like you have never seen it before.”

The presentation is sponsored by the Astronomical Society and the LSUS College of Sciences. The LSUS campus is located in Southeast Shreveport between Youree Drive and East Kings Highway just south of Bert Kouns Industrial Loop and Willis-Knighton Pierremont. The Science Lecture Auditorium is located off the South Drive of the campus, where there is ample parking even for a standing-room-only crowd.

For information, contact Lucas at 797-5086, clucas@lsus.edu or clucas@softdisk.com.