All About MArs

Instructor: Marc Kauffman
Instructor's Bio: Marc Kauffman is a journalist and writer with a decades-long focus on Mars. He is the author of Mars Up Close (National Geographic Books) and First Contact (Simon & Schuster), which explores the search for life beyond Earth. Kauffman served as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer (1981–1999) and The Washington Post (1999–2015), covering NASA for the Post for seven years. He later wrote an online column for a NASAaffiliated site and spent time in Tokyo researching the origins of life on Earth— and possibly beyond.