GSNZ President's Lecture: via zoom

Right now there is the NASA Mars InSight programme to help understand the interior of our neighbouring Red Planet. Humans haven’t retrieved rocks from Mars, but we do have rocks on Earth from Mars...

• How is this possible?
• What is Mars made of?
• Are Mars rocks unique?
• Are geological processes operating on Mars different to those on Earth?
• What is the prospect that life occurs (or has occurred) on the planet?

I will explain just how on Earth we know about Mars, I will summarise some of my research on the high-P ejecta, and I will bring some (very small) Martian meteorites for show and tell.

Contact: bayofplenty@gsnz.org.nz

Webinar: https://otago.zoom.us/j/96907220228?pwd=c2c5NGlCY0JnNWNDdzltS3pvK2sxUT09

Password: 542878

This event will be recorded and made available at a later date.