Flamsteed Lecture: Perseverance Rover on Mars

The history of water and surface environments on early Mars is encoded in the planet’s sedimentary rocks. The traverses made by the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers offer us remarkable windows into past environmental change on Mars. 

In this presentation we will highlight the key findings from Gale and Jezero and evaluate what we have learnt about processes operating at the Martian surface and the environmental history of early Mars.

Meet the speaker

Sanjeev Gupta is Professor of Earth Sciences at Imperial College London. He is a geologist by training and has spent much of his career studying sedimentary rock formations in places like the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, and landscapes under the sea in the English Channel. 

In the past 10 years, he has switched his attention to exploring the geology of Mars. Sanjeev is a science team member on NASA's Perseverance rover and Curiosity rover missions, as well as the ESA Rosalind Franklin rover mission.

The doors will open at 6.30pm, ready for the event to start at 7.15pm.

Main image courtesy of NASA