“Mars and Beyond” brings you the wonders of Earth’s neighborhood, our solar system, in stunning color and clarity. The emphasis is on Mars, the “Red Planet,” which has fascinated Earthlings from earliest recorded history to today. You’ll see stunning space imagery from the Red Planet and the solar system, including samples of some of the latest NASA Mars mission spacecraft - the robotic planetary science tools that, after millennia of wondering, are now answering some of Mars’ and the solar system’s mysteries.

“Planetary science is just geology in space,” as one University of Arizona planetary scientist puts it. But it’s easier said than done and with the exception of the Apollo missions to the Moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that exploration has required robotic exploration. The UA, capitalizing on its expertise in planetary science, astronomy, optics and imaging, has put itself in the thick of the quest for knowledge about space since the 1960s. “Mars and Beyond” digs deep into the mysteries of the Red Planet, including some of the latest cutting edge scientific work by UA teams on NASA’s HiRISE Mars high-resolution orbiting camera, the Phoenix Mars Mission science lab lander, the upcoming OSIRIS-REx, and more.