The 3rd annual co-hosted Astronomy Public LiveStream with the RASC Montreal Centre & Guelph Physics…hosted by the Great Orbax and featuring a live Q&A! Jan 23rd 7pm EST.
https://youtu.be/aK5-V8NU89w
Our guest is Salvador Fernandez, a Master’s student in the Guelph Mars Group headed by Dr. Ralf Gellert. Sal works with data from the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry, or PIXL, on the Perseverance Rover. PIXL has a tool called an X-ray spectrometer that can identify chemical elements at a tiny scale as well as a camera system that can take close up images of a sample’s micro-structures and texture. Using Iron/Manganese ratios, along with additional data, Sal hopes to identify regions of interest among soil samples analyzed by the Perseverance Rover – i.e. dust accumulates, sites of oxidative alterations, candidate samples for aqueous alteration.
Please join us for this unique opportunity to chat about current research being conducted on the Planet of Robots! This livestream is aimed at a public audience so don’t worry if you don’t have a background in physics or astronomy, this will be the stream for you!
