Mars Mission 2020
Thu 06 May
|Online event, Zoom.
Hosted by TechSolent, this is an overview and update on NASA’s Mars 2020 Mission. Our speaker is Associate Professor Jessica Whiteside of the University of Southampton, whose department is trying to identify evidence of life on Mars based on rock samples.
Time & Location
06 May 2021, 17:00 – 18:00
Online event, Zoom.
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About the Event
On July 30th 2020, the Perseverance Rover blasted off on an Atlas V-541 rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, landing on Feb 18th 2021.
The Rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. Hunting for past life requires an impressive array of cutting-edge instruments to tackle the question from many angles, including a drill to collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission in the next decade that will ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies (e.g producing oxygen from Martian air) to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars.
Associate Professor at the University of Southampton Jessica Whiteside will cover:
1) the four science objectives of the mission:
Geology:…
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