Roving On Mars: Future Exploration Of The Red Planet Discussion | Menlo Park

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Today thanks to several years of data collected in situ and remotely they have a better understanding of its geology and habitability potential. Three SETI Institute planetary scientists who have dedicated their career to the study of the red planet will tell them what they have learned from those studies, and what the next steps are in the exploration of Mars with the next generation of rovers.

Future Exploration of the Red Planet
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 | 7 pm to 8 pm
SRI International: Headquarters  333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park
FREE

• Janice Bishop will introduce the candidate landing sites for upcoming martian rovers. She will focus on the mineralogy determined from the CRISM spectrometer at Mars and what that can tell about Mars’ early environment.
• Ginny Gulick will describe the fluvial morphology/water history of these sites as seen by the hirise and CTX cameras.
• Dr. Janice Bishop is a chemist and planetary scientist at the SETI Institute who explores the planet Mars using reflectance spectroscopy at visible and infrared wavelengths.
• Dr. Ginny Gulick is a Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute, who examines erosional features on Mars, looking for the tell-tale signs of running water.
• Dr. Pablo Sobron is a research scientist at the SETI Institute who has strong interests in robotic space exploration and comparative analogue science – the study of places on Earth that are similar to environments on other planets and moons.

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