[Baps] Tufts Physics/Astronomy Colloquium - Friday Oct 1st

[Samuel Kounaves]

FYI...

Tufts University, Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Friday October 1, 2000  3:00 PM
Robinson Hall, Room 253
Refreshments at 2:30 PM in Knipp Library, Robinson 251


"The 2007 Phoenix - A Sneak Preview at the Next Landed Mars Mission"
Professor Samuel Kounaves, Phoenix Co-I
Tufts University
In-Situ Planetary Chemical Analysis Lab
Department of Chemistry

Abstract

The 2007 **Phoenix** Mars Lander is the first fully competed and 
investigator lead mission as part of a new line of smaller "Scout" missions 
in NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The Phoenix has two goals; to study the 
geological history of the water and soil, the key to unlocking the story of 
past climate change; and to search for evidence of a habitable zone that 
may exist in the ice-soil boundary. The science payload includes a descent 
imager, stereo panoramic camera, robotic arm, thermal evolved gas analyzer, 
mass spectrometer, optical and atomic force microscopes, electrical and 
thermal sensors, a wet chemistry laboratory for soil analysis, and a suite 
of meteorological instruments.