He frequently organizes local star parties and solar astronomy sessions, and regularly delivers presentations about astronomy and Earth and planetary science, to students and the public in his Digital Starlab portableplanetarium.

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When the moon approaches its full phase, all of the sites where the astronauts explored are illuminated by sunlight, but no telescope on Earth is strong enough to see the equipment they left on the moon. Recent evidence has suggested that any water on the Martian surface may have been too salty and acidic to support regular terrestrial life. Full moons that occur during the cold months in North America will climb as high in the sky as the summer noonday sun and cast similar shadows. Several plans for a human mission to Mars have been proposed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but none have come to fruition.The NASA Authorization Act of 2017 directed NASA to study the feasibility of a crewed Mars mission in the early 2030s; the resulting report eventually concluded that this would be unfeasible. The brilliant planet Venus will continue to dominate the eastern pre-dawn sky during November, even while it slowly drops sunward.

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W. Campbell at Lick Observatory observed the planet and found that "if water vapor or oxygen occur in the atmosphere of Mars it is in quantities too small to be detected by spectroscopes then available".

It is estimated that the amount of water in the upper mantle of Mars, represented by hydroxyl ions contained within Martian minerals, is equal to or greater than that of Earth at 50–300 parts per million of water, which is enough to cover the entire planet to a depth of 200–1,000 metres (660–3,280ft).