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SUMMARY:The adventures of the Curiosity rover in Gale crater: exploring Ma
 rs geology by robot - Professor Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College\, London)
DTSTART:20191202T180000Z
DTEND:20191202T190000Z
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CONTACT:Natalie Forrest
DESCRIPTION:Humans send robots to Mars in general to search for evidence f
 or extraterrestrial life\, in particular ancient life. This is not such an
  easy task. Crucial to this endeavour is finding the right rocks that migh
 t contain ancient biosignatures. But how do we go about this? Sedimentary 
 rocks are the 'go to' archives for this search. And reconstructing what th
 e early martian landscape looked like and whether it represented an enviro
 nment suitable for life to have formed\, flourished and its evidence prese
 rved in strata is the goal of geologists exploring Mars. In this talk\, I 
 discuss how we do this on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover miss
 ion in a particular with a focus on recent investigations\, and how we wil
 l be doing this in the upcoming ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars 2020 rover mission a
 nd the NASA Mars 2020 rover mission.
LOCATION: Harker 1\, Department of Earth Sciences\, Downing Street
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