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SLAS Regular Meeting
Friday, May 18, 2018 7:30pm
McDonnell Hall, Washington University
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover and Its
Search For Ancient Martian Life
by
Mr. Michael Bouchard
Washington University
Mr. Michael Bouchard of Washington
University will be featured at the May meeting
of the St. Louis Astronomical Society.
The meeting will begin at 7:30 PM on Friday,
May 18, in McDonnell Hall, Room 162,
on the Washington University campus.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover will search for
habitable environments and for evidence of
past microbial life on the Red Planet. Scheduled
for a July or August, 2020 launch, it
will land on Mars in February 2021. The
Rover is a mobile robotic laboratory packed
with an array of instruments, including twenty-three cameras and a ground-penetrating
radar device. Mr. Bouchard will talk about
how the Mars 2020 Rover will use its instruments
to explore the Martian surface and
perhaps find traces of fossil microbial life.
Michael Bouchard is a Doctoral candidate
in the Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences at Washington University. He is
currently a member of the NASA team examining
possible landing sites for the Rover
Upcoming Meetings: 2018
June Eddie Schlafly, UC Berkeley Big Bang (Zoom)
July Erika Gibb, PhD, UMSL Comets
August Ryan Clegg-Watkins, PhD, Washington Univ
Exploring the Moon from Orbit: Paving the Way for Future Astronaut Explorers
September Francesc Ferrer, PhD, Washington U.
In the wake of the Higgs, what will the next breakthrough at the LHC?
October Mao Xiaochen Washington University
The Dawn Mission: Vesta and Ceres
November Bard Joliff, PhD Washington University
Lunar Geology
December Pamela Gay, PhD ASP
Secret Squirrel Part 2
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Meeting Agenda
Welcome
Parking
Introduction of Officers and Visitors
Main Speaker: Michael Bouchard
Nominations for elections were held at the April meeting
Nominations will remain open and may be submitted in several ways:
to the board, through dialogs, verbally, text, phone, email, facebook, twitter or at the May meeting
Current nominees:
President: Jim Small
Vice President: Bradley Waller
Treasurer: Bill Winningham
Secretary: Mark Jones
Hospitality: Larry Campbell
Board Member at Large: Brent Buch
TSE Mugs ARE HERE and for sale for $10 each!
Membership Recognition Pins
Star Parties
Other Announcements
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