What is the meaning of Perseverance?: Recent Episodes
Silvia Ferro
John Serrano is a wellness specialist working at the Kennedy Space Center to ensure the safety of the missions at NASA for its employees. His particular insight offers a different point od view for space missions like Perseverance.
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Véronique Dehant is Head of Service, Responsible of the Operational Directorate “Reference Systems and Planetology” at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). Her major area of interest is geodesy and geophysics, that she applies also to Mars as she told us in this episode.
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Giovanni Lapenta is a professor at KU Leuven for the course of Space Weather. His insight for the Mars2020 mission helped us realize that space travel might be even more difficult than it already looks!
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Kirsten Siebach is an Assistant Professor in the Rice University Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and calls herself a Martian Geologist. She is currently a member of the Science and Operations Teams for the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance and gave us very interesting intel directly from the inside of the mission!
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Eoghan Kyne is a drone technician for a start-up called Anduril Industries, which is a contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense located in Southern California. He also worked at SpaceX on the R&D team working on Crew Dragon. He focused in particularly on parachutes and shared with us the similarities and differences of landing something on Earth and doing it on Mars.
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Giuliana Rotola is an interdisciplinary lawyer, currently deepening her studies of the space sector. She shared with us her views on Perseverance and the role in economic, social, technological, and scientific developments of this kins of space missions.
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Bram Verbruggen is a science engeneering student with a past degree in engineering technology. He hopes to work in the aerospace industry and talked with us about it and about the impact of Perseverance's mission.
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Annie McDonnell is a Mechanical and Aerospace Systems Engineer and is now working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Systems Testbed Engineer on the Europa Clipper mission. In this episode we asked her about her job, her mission and the connection to Mars2020!
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A small trailer featuring all interviewees and some parts of their individual episodes.
Interviews are lead by a group of four students of the Science Communication and Outreach course at KU Leuven (BE).
Here is who we are!
- Jorge Barrasa Fano is a PhD researcher in the group of Mechanobiology and Tissue Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering at KU Leuven.
- Silvia Ferro is an Erasmus+ Italian Physics Masters student, studying at the Master of Astronomy and Astrophysics department of KU Leuven.
- Nicola Kissoon is a PhD student in the Physics Department at KU Leuven. Her research involves coherent diffractive imaging of materials and substrates using femto and attosecond lasers.
- Sameer Rodrigues is a PhD student at IMEC, working on materials for energy storage applications.
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