Elementary School Students

Besides Earth, several planetary bodies in our solar systems are recognized as having the potential to host primitive forms of life. This talk will describe why and how NASA plans to search for life on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Enjoy a screening under the stars of the 2013 film Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle, and their subsequent attempt to return to Earth.

Hike through Muir Woods after dark! Reservations required.

Entrance fee to Muir Woods is free only on April 15-16 and April 22-23 and not the entire week of National Park Week.

All ages will delight in learning about flora, fauna, and tales of San Francisco through masterful storytelling from your local National Park Service Ranger.

All ages will delight in learning about flora, fauna, and tales of San Francisco through masterful storytelling from your local National Park Service Ranger.

Advances in recent decades have allowed amateur astronomers to produce deep space and planetary pictures that rival those taken by professional observatories. This presentation will provide an overview of off-the-shelf instruments and methods anyone, with perseverance and patience, can use to take amazing astronomical images.

Galileo Galilei developed a new method for reliably comprehending the world around us and, accordingly, has been called the father of modern science. We will learn how Galileo‰ЫЄs celestial observations dramatically changed our understanding of the universe and our place in it.

Discoveries by NASA‰ЫЄs Kepler Mission suggest there are billions of potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. What has the study of planets within and beyond the Solar System taught us about our own planet Earth? And what‰ЫЄs next in the search for life beyond the Solar System?

Explore the shore of Rodeo Lagoon with docent Jane Haley and enjoy the winter birds.