GNF: Perseverance, Ingenuity, and the Future of Mars Science and Exploration

Day: Tuesday 15 June 2021
Time: 15:30-16:30 MSK

The panel will discuss Perseverance’s science and technology milestones to date and upcoming science plans as well as explore how this mission feeds into future Mars missions including Mars Sample Return and human exploration.

This session is organized by

Moderator

Pascale EHRENFREUND

President, International Space University (ISU), President of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)

France

Speakers Remotely Connected

Lori GLAZE

Director of Science Mission Directorate’s Planetary Science Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

United States

Veronica PEINADO GONZALEZ

MEDA Operation Engineer, Centro de Astrobiologia

Spain

Sandra SILJESTRÖM

Mars 2020 mission Returned sample scientist, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Sweden

Matt WALLACE

Mars 2020 Perseverance Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

United States

Ken WILLIFORD

Deputy Project Scientist for the NASA Mars 2020 rover mission and Director of the Astrobiogeochemistry Laboratory (abcLAB), NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

United States