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SUMMARY:Monthy Meeting February - From Mars with Love: Postcards from 50 Years of Exploring The Red Planet
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis meeting will be screening a Gresham College Lecture with Professor Chris Lintott \nDuring the fifty years since the launch of the Viking spacecraft to Mars\, our view of the red planet has changed from hostile desert to a world which was once covered in water\, and which may just possibly sustain life. Lavishly illustrated with the latest images from the fleet of spacecraft that have explored our neighbour\, this lecture considers how Mars’ fate\, like that of Earth\, was set in the Solar System’s first billion years\, and the chaotic environment the process of planet formation produced. \n This lecture was recorded by Chris Lintott on the 3rd of December 2025 at Conway Hall\, London. \n Professor Chris Lintott is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford\, and a Research Fellow at New College. Having been educated at Magdalene College\, Cambridge and University College London\, his research now ranges from understanding how galaxies form and evolve\, to using machine learning to find the most unusual things in the Universe\, to predicting the properties of visiting interstellar asteroids. He was the founder of the Zooniverse citizen science platform\, which provides opportunities for more than two million online volunteers to contribute to scientific research\, and which was the topic of his first book\, ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’. His latest book is ‘Our Accidental Universe’. Professor Lintott is best known for presenting the BBC’s long-running Sky at Night program\, and as an accomplished lecturer. Away from work\, he cooks\, suffers through being a fan of Torquay United and Somerset cricket\, and spends time with a rescued lurcher\, Mr Max. 
URL:https://www.astronomy.org.nz/event/monthy-meeting-february-from-mars-with-love-postcards-from-50-years-of-exploring-the-red-planet/
LOCATION:Stardome Observatory & Planetarium\, 670 Manukau Road\, Epsom\, Auckland\, 1345
CATEGORIES:AAS Meetings,Monthly Meeting
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