Stephen E. Strom received his PhD in astronomy
from Harvard University, USA in 1964. He has held appointments at
Harvard, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Kitt Peak
National Observatory in Tucson, and the University of
Massachusetts. He has served as associate director for science at
the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson for nine
years, retiring in 2007. His photography complements poems and
essays in three books published by University of Arizona Press.
Strom's photographic work has been exhibited widely in the United
States and internationally, and is held in several permanent
collections, including those at the Center for Creative Photography
in Tucson and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Bradford A. Smith has served as a professor of
planetary sciences and astronomy at the University of Arizona, USA
a research astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, and visiting associate professor in
the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California
Institute of Technology. He has participated in a number of
American and international space missions, including Mars Mariners
6, 7, and 10; Mars Viking; the Soviet Vega mission to Comet Halley;
the Soviet Phobos mission to Mars; and the Wide Field/Planetary
Camera team for the Hubble Space Telescope.
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