| Event ID: | 9089 |
| Contact Name: | Dr Rachel Cross |
| Contact Email: | rac21@aber.ac.uk |
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| Event Web Site: | http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/events/space-week/ |
| Dates: | 7th October 2015 to 9th October 2015 |
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| Type: | Public |
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| Country: | United Kingdom |
| State/Province: | Wales |
| City: | Aberystwyth |
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| Location: | Old College, Aberystwyth University |
| Event Name: | Meet the experts |
| Event Description: | To celebrate World Space Week (4th - 10th October 2015) Aberystwyth University’s Department of Physics are inviting members of the local community including students and staff, to discover more about exciting developments in space research taking place on their doorstep. In keeping with this year’s theme of ‘Discovery’, Aberystwyth University will be taking part in the global celebration with a scale model of the terrain of Mars on public display in the Quad of the Old College between Wednesday 7th – Friday 9th October (09.00 – 18.00). This scale version of the entire surface of Mars also features a larger scale version of the Gale crater, the area currently being studied by NASA’s Mars Science Lab rover ‘Curiosity’. Built by physicists at the Department of Physics at Aberystwyth University using data from MOLA, the Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter, the model was initially showcased at the National Eisteddfod of Wales earlier this year. On Wednesday 7th October a special ‘Meet the Experts’ event will be held between 15.30 – 18.30 in the Old College , where researchers and student ambassadors from the Department of Physics will be on hand to answer space related questions and discuss their research. Visitors calling into Old College on Wednesday afternoon can take up interactive challenges including controlling mini-landers to traverse the Martian landscape and explore the planet using interactive software. Models of the flight hardware being produced in Aberystwyth which will fly to Mars on the European Space Agency’s 2018 ExoMars Rover Mission will also be on display. |
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