Royal Canadian Institute: Roving the Solar System: Exploring from Afar

Ralf Gellert, PhD, Department of Physics, University of Guelph

Thanks to NASA’s Mars Rovers, we know much more about our planetary neighbour than we did a decade ago. Controlled from Earth, experiments conducted by the Rover instruments reveal that Mars was once a more habitable place. A key instrument on all 4 Mars Rovers and also on the Rosetta mission lander, Philae, is the Canadian APXS experiment, a soda-can sized device that measures the composition of rocks and soils.

Co-Sponsored by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada – Toronto Centre.

FREE public one-hour lecture followed by a question period. Doors open at 1:15 pm.

University of Toronto - St. George Campus
JJR MacLeod Auditorium, Room 2158
Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle
Toronto, ON  M5S 1A8

Nearest subway is Queen’s Park Station. Parking on campus, pay/display; limited disabled parking available.

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