Australia's contribution to the #MarsMission

19 February 2021 by Maria MacNamara

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NASA celebrated the landing of #MarsPersevere on Feb 18. Abigail Allwood has been working on PIXL. Engineers at JPL and QUT have been building software to crunch the data as it comes down from Mars, making PIXL more relevant to the whole tactical decision-making process, including selection of samples. David Flannery will guide the team of scientists on the mission where to go and which samples to take.

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From left to right: Brendan Orenstein (PhD student), Julian Andres Galvez Serna (PhD student), Michael Jones (Collaborator), Peter Nemere (Collaborator), David Flannery (Co-I), Luke Nothdurft (Collaborator), Vanessa Zepeda (PhD student).

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IdeaSpies @ 2021.02.20 9:02 AM
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