All invited to Imperial College Christmas Lecture

All are welcome to attend Imperial’s Children's Christmas Lecture which this year is being held online on Tuesday 14 December 2021 at 5.30pm-6.30pm. 

Recently we’ve been welcoming STEM Potential pupils to school as part of the strong partnership work ongoing between Shrewsbury School and Imperial College London. We have also been involved with Expert Ed, a pilot project that brings experts in a range of subjects into classrooms across the maintained sector, using a combination of pre-recorded and live interview content. 

The Christmas lecture is entitled “The early adventures of the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater, Mars” 

Was there life on Mars? Since touching down at Octavia E. Butler Landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has had an exciting and productive first nine months in Jezero crater, the 50 km-diameter impact crater it now calls home. Perseverance with its sidekick, the Ingenuity helicopter, is now busy exploring the crater searching for evidence of ancient extraterrestrial life and collecting rock samples to bring back to Earth.  
 
In this Christmas lecture, Professor Sanjeev Gupta will discuss the early adventures of the rover in its geological exploration of Jezero crater and share the early discoveries that have been made.   
 
Sanjeev Gupta is Professor of Earth Sciences at Imperial College London. In the past 10 years, he switched his attention to exploring the geology of Mars. Sanjeev is a science team member on NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity rover missions. He is also part of the upcoming ESA Rosalind Franklin rover mission. 

The lecture is aimed at 11-16-year-olds and together with the Q&A session will last for one hour. It is free to attend and will be recorded. 

To register your place, go to https://forms.office.com/r/e51RG46ZFG. You can share this link with your colleagues, students, friends and family so that they can register too. When you register, you will receive a confirmation email with details about how to join the lecture.