To Mars & Back Again: A Rock's Tale with Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa! | NASA

To Mars & Back Again: A Rock's Tale with Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa! | NASA

Our guest is Dr. Meenakshi “Mini” Wadhwa, professor and the Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University (ASU). She's a planetary scientist and isotope cosmochemist interested in the time scales and processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Solar System and planets, and she was also a recent keynote speaker for the Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon). Beyond being an expert in planetary materials like meteorites, Dr. Wadhwa is also the Principal Scientist for NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program.

What is Ask An Astrobiologist?

Once a month, SAGANet (https://www.saganet.org) and the NASA Astrobiology Program host a program called "Ask an Astrobiologist", where the public is invited to interact with a high-profile astrobiologist, who replies to Twitter and YouTube comment questions live on video. Each session lasts about an hour.

Ask An Astrobiologist: Episode 50

To Mars & Back Again: A Rock's Tale

Featuring Dr. Meenakshi Wadhwa (Arizona State University)

Hosted by Dr. Graham Lau (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)

Video Credit: NASA Astrobiology

Production Assistants:

Sarah Treadwell (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)

Anurup Mohanty (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)

Mariam Naseem (Blue Marble Space Institute of Science)

Directed by Mike Toillion (NASA Astrobiology Program)

Illustrations by Aaron Gronstal (NASA Astrobiology Program)

Music & Animation by Mike Toillion (NASA Astrobiology Program)

Duration: 58 minutes

Release Date: July 7, 2022

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