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None IFE Grand Challenge Lecture: The Search for Signs of Life on Mars: NASA's 2020 Rover and Mars Sample Return QUT Institute for Future Environments Friday, 31 July 2015 from 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm (AEST) Brisbane, QLD Ticket Information Type End Quantity Registration Ended Free Share IFE Grand Challenge Lecture: The Search for Signs of Life on Mars: NASA's 2020 Rover and Mars Sample Return Share Tweet Event Details OVERVIEW Finding conclusive evidence of primitive microbial life in mutli-billion-year-old rocks in exceptionally difficult, as illustrated by the doubt surrounding interpretation of Earth's earliest fossil record. Seeking evidence of ancient life on Mars is an even greater challenge - one that will be taken up by NASA's ambitious new 2020 rover mission. The 2020 mission builds on the success of the 2011 Curiosity rover and 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers, and is informed by tools and methods that helped resolve the mysteries of early life on Earth. Using advanced scientific instruments to examine Mars in detail from kilometer to micrometer scales, Mars scientists will assess past habitability, evaluate the potential for the preservation of biosignatures (substances that provide evidence of life), and seek potential biosignatures of past life. The rover will also be used to carefully select and cache samples for possible return to Earth. By integrating field observations on Mars with laboratory analyses of returned samples, scientists will have arguably the most credible opportunity yet to understand whether life ever existed elsewhere in the universe. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Dr Abigail Allwood is a geologist/astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and the Principal Investigator of PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) on the Mars 2020 Rover mission. She studies ancient microbial biosignatures and the environments that nurtured primitive biota, through geological field investigations and sample analyses. Allwood's research on Paleoarchean stromatolites (laminated sedimentary structures of probable microbial origin) in Western Australia showed that microbial life existed on the Earth 3.45 billion years ago and formed a reef-life structure in shallow marine environments. At JPL, Allwood applies lessons learned from terristrial paleobiology to the search for evidence of ancient life on Mars. Seeing the utility of micro-focused-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (micro-XRF) for the analysis of her terrestrial field samples, she developed a micro-XRF instrument for planetary rover missions. The PIXL micro-XRF instrument was selected to fly to Mars in 2020, where it will be is used to analyse rocks and soils encountered by the rover, and seek potential evidence of life on Mars. For instructions on how to view the livestream click here. Have questions about IFE Grand Challenge Lecture: The Search for Signs of Life on Mars: NASA's 2020 Rover and Mars Sample Return? When & Where

Queensland University of Technology

The Kindler Theatre (P-421), Level 4, P Block, Gardens Point campus

2 George St

Brisbane, QLD 4000

Australia

Friday, 31 July 2015 from 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm (AEST)

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