Mars Week 2025 Panel Event: Missions to Mars!
Join our exciting Mars Week expert panel event to learn more about current and future exploration of the Red Planet! A public engagement event hosted by the Centre for Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck as part of the UCL-Birkbeck 'Your Universe' Festival and National Mars Week 2025.
In association with National Mars Week, the UCL-Birkbeck ‘Your Universe’ Festival of Astronomy and Planetary Science presents:
Missions to Mars: Current and Future Exploration of the Red Planet
In this panel event, our experts will highlight some of the current and future missions to Mars including the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Rover, Perseverance and the sample return mission, Mars Express, and the MMX sample return mission to the moons of Mars. After the presentations there will be a Q&A session to delve deeper into discussions about exploration of our neighbouring Red Planet. How do ‘robots’ assist us exploring Mars? Are human missions inevitable? Will we find evidence for life?
Join us in-person at UCL to listen, learn and put your own questions to our experts.
Introducing our panel…
Professor Andrew Coates
Rebecca Warrilow
Dr Keyron Hickman-Lewis
Dr Roger Stabbins
Our host:
Dr Francisco Diego
Image credits:
Feature image: Mars Globe - ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Michael; ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover still - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Rover mast head - Jason Major/ MSSS/JPL-Caltech/NASA; Mars Express satellite- ESA 2001, illustration by Medialab; MMX satellite - JAXA/NASA; Phobos - NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona.
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Event summary
Title: Missions to Mars: Current and future exploration of the Red Planet
Type: Panel event, forming part of Mars Week 2025 and the UCL-Birkbeck Your Universe Festival, with short talks by experts and Q&A with the audience.
Date: Saturday 8th March 2024
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Format: In person
Location: UCL
Mars Day / Week 2025
The ‘Missions to Mars’ panel event at UCL, is one of various events taking place as part of Mars Day and Week 2024.
Planetary Science MSc
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The MSc programme in Planetary Science has a curriculum which is drawn from a variety of academic departments within UCL, including Physics and Astronomy, Space and Climate Physics, Earth Sciences, and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Birkbeck College. This programme is offered as a 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time course.
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Ticketing
Ticketed and Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes