Javier Martin-Torres, Atmospheric Scientist, at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, giving a talk entitled "Could we live on the red planet?", on the Cosmos Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
Join award-winning scientist Javier Martin-Torres as he explores our current understanding of the environmental conditions on Mars. Discover what NASA's Curiosity rover and other missions have taught us as they have journeyed across or around the Red Planet. What do these results and our current understanding of life is tell us about the prospects for life on Mars? Is Mars habitable? Was it ever habitable in the past? And what of the future? Javier Martín-Torres is the principal investigator of the HABIT instrument that will fly to Mars on board the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission. He is also the scientist responsible for the environmental sensor suite on NASA's Curiosity rover which has been investigating the habitability of Mars since 2012. He is a Spanish physicist with interests in atmospheric sciences (mainly Earth, Mars, and exoplanet atmospheres), geophysics, and astrobiology. He has published over 150 scientific papers in these areas, and contributed to more than 500 presentations at international conferences. He is a chaired professor in Atmospheric Sciences at Luleå Tekniska Universitet (LTU), Sweden, and Senior Research Scientist of the Spanish Research Council, assigned to the Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, located in Armilla, Granada, Spain. He is also a visiting professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, and a Specially Appointed Professor at Okayama University.] Previously he has worked for ESA, the California Institute of Technology, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and 10 years for NASA at the Langley Research Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Martin-Torres is the principal investigator of the HABIT (HabitAbility: Brine, Irradiation and Temperature) instrument, which will travel to Mars as part of the scientific payload of the ExoMars 2020 mission to investigate, amongst other things, the water exchange cycle between the atmosphere and the Martian regolith.
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