The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck held the fifth event in our Adventures in Planetary Science public engagement series online on Thursday 31st October 2024. There were talks from our planetary science experts, followed by a panel Q&A session with the audience. Talks and Q&A featuring Alex Thompson (UCL), Prof Giovanna Tinetti (UCL), Dr Gordon Yip (UCL) and Dr Andrew Rushby (Birkbeck), and hosted by Dr Catherine Regan (West Virginia U.) , are available in this recording.

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11/14/2024

The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck held the fourth event in our Adventures in Planetary Science public engagement series 'Asteroids and Meteorites: Unlocking the secrets of the Solar System', online on Thursday 26th October 2023. There were talks from our planetary science experts and geologists/meteoricists, followed by a panel Q&A session with the audience. Talks and Q&A featuring Prof Hilary Downes (Birkbeck), Charlotte Bays (Royal Holloway/NHM), Dr Ashley King (NHM), hosted by Dr Andrew Rushby (Birkbeck), are available in this recording with the permission of the speakers. The live event also included Dr Sarah Crowther (Manchester).

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11/16/2023

The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck held the third event in our Adventures in Planetary Science public engagement series 'The JUICE mission: Revealing the mysteries of Jupiter's icy moons', online on Thursday 25th May 2023. There were talks from our JUICE and icy moon experts, followed by a panel Q&A session with the audience. Talks by Prof Geraint Jones (UCL-MSSL), Prof Nick Achilleos (UCL-P&A), Grace Richards (AstrobiologyOU) and hosted by Dr Andrew Rushby (Birkbeck).

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6/8/2023

The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck is delighted to introduce 'Adventures in Planetary Science: Is There Life on Mars?', the first in a new series of exciting *free* public outreach talks presented by our planetary science experts. Our inaugural event took place online on the evening of Thursday 15 September 2022, with talks from our Mars and astrobiology planetary scientists at UCL and Birkbeck, followed by a panel Q&A session with the speakers. Talks: Louisa Preston (Recorded - MSSL) – Searching for Life on Mars; Catherine Regan (MSSL) – Missions to Mars: Evidence for Habitability; Priya Patel (MSSL/NASA JPL) – Perseverance and Mars Sample Return; Joel Davis (Birkbeck) – Mars Four Billion Years Ago: An Earth-like World; Andrew Coates (MSSL) – Looking for Life on Mars with Rosalind Franklin

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12/20/2022

The Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck is delighted to announce the second in our series of public engagement events: 'Adventures in Planetary Science: Why Return to the Moon?', which took place online on Thursday 1st December 2022. Following the successful NASA Artemis 1 mission launch to the Moon on 16th November 2022, amid a flurry of other lunar missions, the subject of 'Why Return to the Moon?' has never been so topical. The second in our series of *free* public engagement events 'Adventures in Planetary Science', will address this question with talks from a number of lunar science experts, and a chance to put questions to the panel at the Q&A session following the presentations. Talks: Louise Alexander (RAS) - An Introduction to the Moon; Giulia Magnarini (NHM) - A journey across the lunar landscape; Siân Cleaver (Airbus) - The Artemis Missions; Ian Crawford (Birkbeck) - Future exploration: The case for a lunar base; Event host and chair: Andrew Rushby (Birkbeck)

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12/17/2022