'Mars is Beautiful,' UA Scientists Enthuse Over Book of HiRISE Images

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Featured on the May 19th, 2017 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

• The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona has released a new public report that explores the potential for three historic places in Tucson to become shared community art spaces. Mark talks with the Foundation's director, Debi Chess Mabie, about what the plan includes...

Gisela Telis

• Bryn Bailer tunes in the K7UAZ Amateur Radio Club, a Tucson's community of amateur radio operators - also known as "hams" - at the club house they maintain at the University of Arizona...

AZPM Staff

• Mars: The Pristine Beauty of the Red Planet is a mammoth new book from the University of Arizona Press. It presents the most striking images collected from ten years of research with the Mars HiRISE camera. Sara Hammond talks with two HiRISE scientific investigators about how these amazingly sharp and colorful images were captured, and how they were selected for the book...

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

• And, Dan Kruse introduces us to saxophonist Michael Weiss and percussionist Elizabeth Soflin, an unusual musical duo who are breaking new sonic ground with melody and rhythm...

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