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Exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover

Bownocker Public Lecture 2019 - John Grotzinger
September 26, 2019
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Independence Hall, Room 100

2019 Bownocker Lectures

John Grotzinger, Caltech Professor of Geology

Free public lecture September 26 at 8pm in Independence Hall room 100.

SES is pleased to welcome Mars expert and Curiosity rover Chief Scientist John Grotzinger who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology at Caltech and Member of the National Academy of Sciences. The Curiosity rover has been exploring the Red Planet since 2012, gaining insights into how water was involved in the early history of Mars and what its potential role might have been in supporting microbial habitability, had life ever originated there.