[Baps] BU lecture - Bethany Ehlmann (Caltech) - Roving on Mars - Monday 24 February 7pm

[Paul Withers]

Hello everyone,

This is not one of our regular astronomy seminars. It is instead aimed 
at a broad, general audience.
Paul

http://www.bu.edu/cas/news/calendar/?eid=148667

Silas Peirce Lecture: Following the Water on Mars: Roving with Curiosity

Starts:
     7:00 pm on Monday, February 24, 2014
Location:
     Tsai Performance Center 685 Commonwealth Ave
Contact Name:
     Paul Withers

Join Bethany Ehlmann (California Institute of Technology) as she gives 
the first annual CAS Silas Peirce Lecture. The Curiosity rover 
represents the latest chapter in NASA's exploration of Mars. It was 
designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support 
small life forms called microbes. The rover's onboard laboratory is 
studying the rocks and soils it encounters to search for the chemical 
building blocks of life on Mars and it will reveal what the martian 
environment was like in the past. Professor Ehlmann, a member of the 
intrepid rover's science team, will describe why Curiosity was sent to 
Mars and what it has found since landing 18 months ago.
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