Follow Perseverance to Mars: LIVE with NASA @ My Library

The Perseverance Rover will launch this summer (July 17 – Aug. 5, 2020) and head to Jezero Crater, where it will land at the foot of a river delta which was clearly a lake at the time microbial life was flourishing on Earth.

The American Museum of Natural History’s Director of Astrovisualization Carter Emmart will lead us on an exploration of this exciting landing site as we fly over it together using OpenSpace, NASA-supported software. We will see why Jezero Crater was chosen and the features it has to offer for this latest in NASA’s series of Mars rovers to investigate past conditions which could have supported life.

During the live webcast, attendees will be able to interact with NASA scientists by asking questions (using the chat feature) that relate to NASA’s 2020 Mars Mission.

The participating scientists are:
* Dr. Elizabeth Rampe: (NASA Johnson Space Center Exploration Mission Scientist)
* Dr. Germán Martínez: (LPI Staff Scientist)
* Dr. Kennda Lynch (LPI Staff Scientist)

This live OpenSpace webcast is brought to you by the STAR Library Network’s NASA@ My Library program in partnership with the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the American Library Association, and the American Museum of Natural History. For more about STAR Net, visit http://www.starnetlibraries.org.

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The content is rendered using the open-source astrovisualization software OpenSpace (http://openspaceproject.com), developed in collaboration between American Museum of Natural History, Linköping University, New York University, and the University of Utah.

OpenSpace is funded in part by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. OpenSpace is also funded in part by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden and the Swedish e-Science Research Centre.

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