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<td valign="top" height="25"><span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 60); line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FRIDAY, MAY 9: John Grotzinger</span></span><span style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 60); line-height: 19px;"><br>
NASA Curiosity Rover Chief Scientist, Caltech<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">EXPLORING MARS WITH THE CURIOSITY ROVER<span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">The Search for Ancient Habitable Environments</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(122, 122, 122);"><span style="font-style: italic;">The newly established William F. Brace Lecture Series -- sponsored by the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences -- honors the legacy of
"legend in rock physics" and former EAPS Department Head Bill Brace, who passed away in 2012.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
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</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">About the Speaker</span><br>
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Dr. John Grotzinger is the chief scientist and head of strategic science planning for NASA’s $2.5 billion Curiosity rover mission to Mars, which riveted the country with its dare-devil landing. Leading a team of more than 450 scientists, Grotzinger is responsible
for future planning, parallel operations, determining Curiosity’s exploratory sites, and ensuring smooth and productive collaboration between several independent engineering teams – a key element of mission success. The rover’s objectives include characterization
of the Martian landscape, measuring radiation levels to enable future human exploration, and analyzing soil and rock samples in an effort to find environments that could have once supported life. Since 2003, Grotzinger also has worked on the Spirit and Opportunity
rovers. In 2004, he and Opportunity rover team made the discovery of evidence for liquid water on ancient Mars based on image, mineralogical, and chemical data.<br>
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Popular Mechanics named him No. 2 on its list of “10 Innovators who Changed the World.” Discover magazine also listed the Mars Curiosity rover giving researchers unprecedented access to the Red Planet as No. 1 in its list of the “Top 100 Science Stories of
2013.”<br>
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Grotzinger, who served as a member of the EAPS faculty from 1987 to 2005, is interested in the evolution of surficial environments of Earth and Mars. For his great contributions to understanding the co-evolution of life and environment on early Earth, Grotzinger
received the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal from the National Academy of Sciences – awarded once every five years. For his work in the geology and geochemistry of hydrocarbon exploration, he was honored with the 2012 Halbouty Award of the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2002.)<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(122, 122, 122);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4PM in the Stata Center Lecture Hall, room 32-123. <br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(122, 122, 122);">Open to the public.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(122, 122, 122);"></span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(122, 122, 122);"> Questions? Contact Allison Provaire</span><span style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(122, 122, 122);">:<br>
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