How to look for traces of past life on Mars?
Audio 48:30
Image (NASA) of the planet Mars sent by the Mars Rover Perseverance, after landing there on February 18, 2021. © NASA / JPL-Caltech via AP
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
In search of traces of life on Mars… Feedback from planetologists in charge of the instruments on board the Rover Perseverance and the other Martian exploration missions… (Replay of February 22, 2021).
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Glad to see you on Mars today, exactly on the Jezero crater where
NASA's Perseverance
Rover landed in February 2021
. A staggering scientific, technological and human feat that we are going to share with the planetologist
Sylvestre Maurice
, scientific manager of Supercam (the eyes and ears of Perseverance on Mars) and the astrochemist
Caroline Fressinet
. In search of traces of extraterrestrial life, this exobiologist collaborates in the various Martian missions by analyzing the data sent by space probes and by designing instruments to do so ...
Scientific co-manager of one of the on-board instruments, the astrophysicist
Sylvestre Maurice
(from the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse), takes stock of the specificities of this mission
(by phone) and
Caroline Freissinet
(on stage) CNRS researcher in planetary sciences and astrochemistry.
She works at the Atmospheres and Space Observations Laboratory in Guyancourt (LATMOS - CNRS / Université Versailles Saint-Quentin / Sorbonne Université).
→ The CNRS animated film,
Supercam of the eyes and ears
on Mars to discover
here
.
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