Geoffrey Landis (NASA Glenn)
Date: Thu. February 7th, 2019, 4:00 pm-5:00 pmLocation: Rockefeller 301
A Physicist on Mars
Mars, our nearest neighbor outward in the solar system, is a planet that has fascinated humans for hundreds of years. Physicist Geoffrey A. Landis of the NASA Glenn Research Center will discuss NASA’s rover missions to Mars, including the mission of the Mars Exploration Rovers, which have been traversing the surface of Mars for a mission of seventeen years, carrying a suite of physics-based instrumentation including hyperspectral cameras, Mössbauer spectrometry, and alpha-induced x-ray fluorescence. This talk will present some results of the many missions that have been (and still are) exploring Mars, where we are and what we are doing, and what we are doing next in Mars exploration.