What's up on Mars?
On August 6, 2012, after a journey of 563 million kilometers and a spectacular multi-stage descent, NASA's Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars and promptly began to zap the surrounding rocks with its fancy pulsed infrared laser.
Besides Curiosity, at the moment NASA has one more functioning rover and three spacecraft orbiting the red planet. And there are countless more missions in the pipeline, from NASA, Europe, Russia, even India.
Why all this fascination with Mars? What do we hope to learn from Curiosity? Is there life on Mars? And when will the first astronauts walk on its surface? The answers to these and many more questions will be the topic of the first session of Science & Cocktails of the season, presented by planetary scientist and Mars expert Morten Bo Madsen.
Morten Bo Madsen
Danish physicist, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute. He was a participating scientist on the Phoenix Mars mission which confirmed the presence of water on Mars. He is a participating scientist in the NASA Curiosity rover project, which successfully landed on Mars in August 2012.
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