Exploration presentations go virtual for Mars New Year
NASA speakers who previously planned to conduct presentations at the upcoming Mars New Year festival will now do so remotely because of concerns about COVID-19 cases in Butler County and elsewhere, representatives from the Mars New Year Committee said.
“We're recognizing that we as the Mars New Year Committee are doing it as 'the COVID edition,'” said Mars Borough Mayor Gregg Hartung.
The event is scheduled in Mars Friday and Saturday.
“We had talked about this back in June as a possibility,” he said. “We're trying to accommodate all the possibilities to make this work. NASA has not pulled out. They're still in, just in a different way.”
NASA will still present remotely at the event on Friday and Saturday, which is being called the Mars Exploration Celebration to reflect the fact that the actual Mars New Year date, which takes place every two years, occurred earlier in 2021.
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