BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5af2fed6df7a68e4a893a0a041a8a7b712 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:April Technical Luncheon LOCATION:The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma\, 500 NE 4th St\, Oklahoma City, Oklahom a 73104\, USA DESCRIPTION:
APRIL TECHNICAL MEETING
Speaker: Dr. Justin Simon (JSC-X1311) - Planetary S cientist, Center for Isotope Cosmochemistry and Geochronology
Title: Exploring Mars with Perseverance – Project Update
Location: The Petr oleum Alliance
Dates: April 12, 2023
Cost: $30 Members $35 Non- members (lunch included)
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Abstract: The Mars 2020 mission is currently explor ing Jezero Crater on Mars, which contains an ancient lake-delta system with a high potential for past habitability. One of the primary goals is to col lect a set of scientifically return-worthy samples for return to Earth. Bet ween February 2021 and January 2023, the Perseverance rover collected 15 ro ck cores, 2 regolith samples and one atmosphere sample. Of the 17 rock core s and regolith samples, 8 were collected on the crater floor and 9 at the d elta front. Additionally, 3 witness tube assemblies (WTAs), which will serv e as blanks for contamination control, have been sealed. In this talk I wil l present an overview of the mission and some highlights from the mission’s sample collection, and associated in situ rover observations. The se rocks represent the first samples from Mars with a known geologic contex t, the first collected with the potential to be returned to Earth for labor atory analysis, and the first cores from rock outcrops on another planet. p>Biography: Justin Simon is a planetary scientist within the Astromater ials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at the Johnson Space Center. Before coming to Johnson, he worked at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Geochronology Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow . Currently, Simon is the lead for the Center for Isotope Cosmochemistry an d Geochronology (CICG) based within the ARES division. His research group c onducts laboratory measurements on meteorites and samples returned by space craft to address rocky planet formation, such as from the solar system's ea rliest solids to the crusts of habitable planets.
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