Voyage To Mars: Red Planet Chemistry

Penn State Berks Students, Faculty and Staff! 

Join the Berks Chemical Society on Mole Day, Tuesday, October 23rd to celebrate National Chemistry Week as host Sam Lemonick of Chemical & Engineering News guides us through the chemistry and challenges of long-term space travel as well as the materials, biochemistry, and astrochemistry that will make a manned mission to Mars possible.

What You Will Learn

• How the Curiosity Rover has revealed the geologic history of Mars, and how this knowledge can help inform us about the environments that existed on the surface of Mars, and even Earth, during the time when life evolved
• The unique challenges of long term space travel and a profile of the current work to ensure that humans can survive the voyage
• What is the current state recycle waste research that will help sustain valuable materials for astronauts during long deep-space missions using biopharmaceutical production

Kirsten Siebach Rice University

Brett A. McGuire National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Mark Blenner Clemson University

Mary Ann Meador NASA Glenn Research Center

Michael Meador NASA’s Game Changing Technologies Program

Susanna Widicus-Weaver Emory University

Host

Sam Lemonick
Assistant Editor
Chemical & Engineering News

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