Mars Perseverance with Dr. Amy Williams

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, and advance the quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.The rover will collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars.
If that weren’t cool enough, strapped to the rover's belly for the journey to Mars is a technology demonstration - the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, which may achieve a "Wright Brothers moment" by testing the first powered flight on the Red Planet.
Dr. Amy Williams is an Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the University of Florida, she was an Assistant Professor of Geology at Towson University, and a postdoctoral research associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research interests include the formation and preservation of physical and molecular biosignatures in terrestrial environments as an analog for putative biosignature formation on Mars. She has been a member of the NASA Curiosity rover science team since 2009, and is a Participating Scientist on NASA's Perseverance rover science team.
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[@vgrof2315]

Thank you very much, Doctor Williams. An amazing time to be alive it is. And how fortunate you are to be on the front line of science as we figure out what's going on in our universe. Bravo!!

[@FredPlanatia]

This was great, Dr. Williams was an awesome guest. I found Launch Pad Astronomy through your excellent YT video describing the solar gravity based telescope. Hope this video gets the attention it deserves. I'll be sure to tell others about it.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thank you, Fred and I'm glad to have you along for the ride!

[@davidbartonjr]

Amy Williams - WOW! I could watch you all day. You have a beautiful smile, great voice and explain your content extremely well. Your enthusiasm and constant smiling reminds me of Alex Filippenko, another fav of mine. You rock!!!

[@quantumcat7673]

Dr. Amy Williams, vous êtes une source d'inspiration pour moi. Le travail allié à la passion et le génie, C'est vous en personne! Magnifique!

[@mickelodiansurname9578]

This was a cool broadcast. I know NASA likely have internal policies and so fourth to consider, but the free flowing nature of this live chat, with a member of the team no less, was fantastic.... more of this is needed.... heck make it mandatory. Chris: I love my students they are awesome ME: ....and sincerity is the secret to success, once you can fake that chris...you have it made!

[@Zorlof]

You can’t forget the 37 or so minute delay when planning your landing. Lol As for life on Mars, no astute person would be surprised if it existed in the past, but it would certainly be a profound milestone discovery. I loved every minute of this.👍🙏

[@wefinishthisnow3883]

This was a fantastic interview, even 12 months later. Amy brilliantly explained how they expect to search for life. I would have liked to ask Amy if there any chance or scenario where we could get a water sample on Mars? And how valuable would that be if we could?

[@MrsTitina]

Woooooow!! What a magnificent master class!!!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thanks!

[@BlackWolf6420]

Great chemistry! 🤗💫

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thank you! 🤗

[@kevinclayton1656]

There is a very good chance we are all from Mars.it's alot older than earth and it had water and a magnetic sheild wen it was young.so it had ALL THE ingredients for life long before earth.and with all the massive impact Mars has took.its very possible life found it way here to earth

[@pipertripp]

Gutted that I couldn't be there for the live event, but happy to be catching it now.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Sorry man, but glad you caught the replay!

[@theoschijf8155]

Fantastic info, thanks a lot.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

My pleasure!

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

It was a fantastic landing. Thanks to everyone who contributed 👏 Everything is for humanity 👍

[@papacowboy]

I have a question. I was not in on the original production of this program so I can only ask here and now. There is a certain amount, I don't remember how much, of biological material that leaves the earth constantly, not to mention asteroidal impacts, that 2% ends up on Mars. Some of these can survive the vacuum and radiation of space. I be,I eve if we look hard enough we will find them. May be some adapted to, say, subterranean conditions on, or in Mars. How will we be able to tell which planer seeded the other? Lease from be typs, I am somewhat visually impaired.

[@johnperry3593]

That was fantastic!!! Thank you so much. I love your channel!!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

You are so welcome, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@glynbrookes6456]

Look forward to seeing the updates.

[@frumpeting]

Excellent content.

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Antstewart87]

Brilliant content, thanks

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

You are so welcome, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@tripshh]

absolutely awesome!

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ray1956]

It is pointless to resist. TALK NERDY to me👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😃👨🏿‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️

[@BrotherAsheeshlalNewMessages]

wow nice image

[@cliffordsmeeton4811]

Thank You ....u rock .

[@theoschijf8155]

Q: Have we truly given up on finding CURRENT micro life. There is life that lives off off CO2, isn’t there? Could Perseverance still find it, detect it? (Late to the party, this is Europe calling).

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

I think Amy addressed a similar question. Essentially the answer is that we really can't tell for sure until we get the samples back and into a lab.

[@charleselswick5404]

They call days sol on mars. What's night called?

[@theOrionsarms]

One sol is duration of a day and a night together, from the moment when sun seems to passes above your head(or middle of the diurnal cycle)to the second passing next day (you cannot use sunset because that is different depending on how far you are from equatory and witch seasons is in the place you measure ).

[@papacowboy]

I am not a part of the class, just one watching the KZbin videos. Can I get the 3 hours credit as well?

[@rhoddryice5412]

36:49 Landing animation. 53:08 First pictures

[@manw3bttcks]

Don't you mean 43:10 for the "First Pictures" (image from sky crane looking down on lander)

[@zapfanzapfan]

We are clever apes, from tool use to crush nuts and bones with stones to throwing rovers at Mars in only a couple of million years. Probably not caused by a visiting monolith though :-)

[@GoshGus]

⚡️🌹⚡️🚀 🛸

[@live4Cha]

How pulverized samples help to understand ancient history of life on Mars? Wouldnt we lose all the structure if sample loses its original shape? Thnx!

[@Anonymous-ci3ku]

👍

[@ranjitpelia3267]

Epigenetic remodeling of plant RNAs will be able to promote lunar-botanicals, hopefully martian-botanicals one day. Can you do some graduate (phD) level talks/discussions? Please. Love the content on this channel, but its too laymen.

[@smokeymcpot9887]

You are clever. And you even wrote a long sentence to show us this. For PhD level, you can just read the papers when they come out.

[@Borep_Yano]

Mars SUV!

[@thecarinos9267]

Lmao did he just welcome sone guy called the robber

[@geoffreyvoeth3993]

GE-OLOGY is for EARTH what is it called for Mars ??? Mars-Ology ???

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

I've heard it called "areology", though it gets harder to find the right unique term for each body in the solar system :)

[@zapfanzapfan]

Areology sounds like a medical specialty focused on nipples :-) The rocket that is now called SLS was in a previous incarnation called Ares V. "Mars" is the Roman name and "Ares" the Greek name for the god of war. Hermeology is the "geology" of Mercury, Hermes being the Greek name for the messenger of the gods. I don't know if it applies to more planets, I haven't heard anyone call the geology of Venus "Aphroditology" or something like that after Aphrodite. Ok, looked it up, "Cytherology" is suggested after the island where she was born/created.

[@thomashopper4154]

Has any bone been found

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Not yet:)

[@foxylady1048]

I think we are a lot clever than apes Dr Williams. Come on, I don’t think apes could do this.

[@joebloe1401]

LunchPad jabbermouth dweebette

[@woody5109]

The pandemic is over….right?