[Baps] Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover - MIT May 9th

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FRIDAY, MAY 9: John Grotzinger
NASA Curiosity Rover Chief Scientist, Caltech

EXPLORING MARS WITH THE CURIOSITY ROVER
The Search for Ancient Habitable Environments

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.

About the Speaker

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.

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.”

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.)

4PM in the Stata Center Lecture Hall, room 32-123.

Reception to follow at 5:30PM in the Green Building Lounge, room 54-923

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