Can humans live on Mars or is it all science fiction?
Meet Professor Sanjeev Gupta, a key scientist from the latest NASA mission to Mars, and NASA scientist Dr. Claire Newman. In this special event the pair will be sharing the secrets from the Perseverance Rover, that has been searching for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. They will talk about the instruments that are being used to learn about Martian weather and the planet’s huge dust storms.
Join us to find out whether Mars could ever be inhabitable to humans, see the newest footage and hear about finding from the latest rover exhibition.
This talk is part of the Evening of Invention, a partnership event by Royal Cornwall Museum and Agile Rabbit, inspired by the Marvellous Mechanical Museum, an exhibition by Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.
Speakers
PROFESSOR SANJEEV GUPTA
Imperial College
London
Professor of Earth Science
Sanjeev Gupta, born in India in 1965, is Professor of Earth Science at Imperial College, London. His research is concerned with the interpretation of geological and landscape features on Earth and on Mars; he is perhaps most well known for his work on the formation of the English Channel by ancient megafloods. Sanjeev emigrated from India aged five. Following educationat primary schools in Kent and Berkshire, then Reading Grammar School, he read geology at the University of Oxford. After a year in China working on a geological map of southern China, he completed a PhD at the University of Oxford on relations between past tectonic activity and sedimentation in the southern French Alps. Following a number of postdoctoral positions in the US and the UK, Sanjeev joined Imperial College in 2003.
Claire Newman