[oasis-announce] Free Public Lecture on Phoenix Mission to Mars on December 1st

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OASIS Invites You to
 
Ice Station Phoenix: NASA's Martian Polar Expedition
 
with Dr. Leslie Tamppari, NASA JPL
 
December 1, 2007
1pm
Long Beach Public Library
101 Pacific Avenue, 
Long Beach, CA
 
Admission Free
Children Welcome
 
(This is not a library sponsored event.)
 
On May 25, 2008, NASA's Phoenix Lander touches down on an icy plain near the 
North Pole of Mars.  Gouging trenches with its robotic arm, Phoenix will 
collect Martian soil so its portable laboratory can test whether life might survive 
there.  Stereo cameras on a high mast give scientists the view of an NBA 
All-Star while they scan exposed rocks for clues of their composition and 
structure.  Combined with temperature and pressure sensors, the same cameras make 
Phoenix a Martian weather station by keeping watch on clouds, fog, and dust 
plumes.  Knowledge from this mission will help in the planning of future human 
expeditions to Mars.
 
Dr. Lelie Tamppari is the Phoenix Mission's Project Scientist at NASA's Jet 
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).  She is a graduate of the University of Arizona 
and received her PhD from UCLA.  At JPL, she previously worked as the Deputy 
Project Scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory (scheduled to launch in 2009) 
and an Investigation Scientist for the Photopolarimeter/Radiometer (PPR) 
Experiment on the Galileo mission to Jupiter.  She decided to become a planetary 
scientist while working as a JPL intern during Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune.
 
For more information, contact the OASIS hotline at (310)364-2290



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