Here is a notice from the SETI Institute for its webinar titled "*Perseverance:
A Martian Rover to Find Life?" on Wednesday August 19, 2020. I attended one
of its webinar and it was very interesting. To attend you must register
ahead of time.*
*Paul Facuna*
*Vice President, Phoenix Astronomical Society*
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Subject: Fw: Register for SETI Talks: Perseverance: A Martian Rover to Find
Life? - Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 7:00 PM PDT
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*Subject:* Register for SETI Talks: Perseverance: A Martian Rover to Find
Life? - Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 7:00 PM PDT
SETI Talks!
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*SETI Institute presents:Perseverance: A Martian Rover to Find Life?*
[image: Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover]
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
7:00 PM PDT
Online
REGISTER NOW <http://go.seti.org/R00N342ILt0030I0T0McJf0>
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover successfully launched on July 30, 2020, is
now en route toward Mars. The mission will pave the way for future human
expeditions to Mars and demonstrates technologies that could be used by
future Mars explorers.
Designed to search for signs of ancient microbial life, the robotic rover
is equipped with an instrument that will drill to collect core samples of
Martian rock and soil and then store them in sealed tubes for pick-up by a
future mission. The Mars 2020 rover will include innovative technologies to
explore the Jezero crater region, such as a Mars Helicopter that will
become the first powered flight craft on the Red Planet and a sample
caching system.
In anticipation of its landing, scheduled for Feb 18, 2021, we invited two
SETI Institute researchers to discuss the potential of the mission to find
evidence of microbial life and employ new techniques to explore Mars.
Chemist and planetary scientist *Janice Bishop* studies spectral
fingerprints of minerals and Mars analogs on Earth and is a member of the
CRISM orbital spectroscopy team. Physicist and planetary scientist *Pablo
Sobron* develops spectroscopic instruments for planetary exploration and is
a member of the Mars 2020 Science Team. They will tell us how Perseverance
will search for traces of past or present microbial life in chemical,
mineralogical, or textural fingerprints. Perseverance is the first step
towards investigating biology, not just chemistry on Mars through sample
return. This talk will describe why Jezero Crater was selected for this
mission, the types of investigations to be performed and what they expect
the mission to discover.
[image: Janice Bishop and Pablo Sobron]
This special SETI Talks will be online only, please make sure to register
for access to this event.
REGISTER NOW <http://go.seti.org/R00N342ILt0030I0T0McJf0>
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NOTE: Due to the popularity of the SETI Talks events, tickets are often
sold out. If you register, then realize you will be unable to participate,
please let us know as we will then be able to open up the positions for
others. You can email us at webmaster@xxxxxxxx
<http://go.seti.org/B200KT3Mf00030cI041NILt>.
Thank You!
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