Wed, Jan 26
|Aerospace Engineering Science CU Boulder
Mars Curiosity Rover - RAD: Radiation Assessment Detector Results and Implications for Human Exploration of Mars
Newly interpreted data from the Mars Curiosity rover shows that physical barriers reduce radiation levels on the red planet, providing insight into what future human exploration on Mars might look like.
Time & Location
Jan 26, 2022, 6:00 PM
Aerospace Engineering Science CU Boulder, 3775 Discovery Dr, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
About The Event
Newly interpreted data from the Mars Curiosity rover shows that physical barriers reduce radiation levels on the red planet, providing insight into what future human exploration on Mars might look like. The Radiation Assessment Detector, or RAD carried on the Curiosity rover has been making observations on Mars since 2012. The instrument is managed by a team at SwRI in Boulder. SwRI, together with Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from the NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany’s national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt.
Dr. Bent Ehresmann, a research scientist on the program will give a presentation on the latest published research on the instrument’s findings and the implications for human exploration of the planet as well as an overview of the instrument and its development.
Dr. Bent Ehresmann is a Senior Research Analyst in the Department of Space…