Discovering The Solar System
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The University of Auckland's Department of Physics is hosting a unique evening, featuring presentations from scientists Dr. Jen Blank and Dr Michele Bannister, with a Q&A to follow. If you want to hear about the future of solar system science, join us at 7pm on Tuesday 17 May.
Discovering the Solar System
Where will Curiosity lead us: Present and future activities on the surface of Mars
Dr Jen Blank is an astrobiologist working at the NASA Ames Research Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. She works with the Mars Curiosity science team and has operational responsibilities for ChemCam, the laser instrument on the rover. Jen is also a technical advisor to the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Mapping the deep: ice worlds, hidden oceans, and nitrogen glaciers in the outer Solar System
Dr Michele Bannister is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Originally from Waitara, Taranaki, she has been involved in the discovery of more than five hundred new trans-Neptunian objects in her work with the Outer Solar System Origins Survey.
