{"id":21500,"date":"2013-03-15T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:29:25","slug":"brock-prof-part-of-nasa-news-conference-on-mars-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/03\/brock-prof-part-of-nasa-news-conference-on-mars-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock prof part of NASA news conference on Mars mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_13820\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/schmidt.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13820\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13820   \" title=\"Mariek Schmidt\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/schmidt.jpg\" alt=\"Mariek Schmidt\" width=\"454\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariek Schmidt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Volcanologist Mariek Schmidt will be part of the NASA news conference for the Curiosity mission happening March 18 from noon to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brock News Story\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=21154\" target=\"_blank\">Schmidt, assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences,<\/a> will be discussing recent results from the Canadian-built Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS), which measures elemental compositions of rock surfaces and soils.<\/p>\n<p>She will talk about how the APXS data contributes to understanding the geology along the Curiosity rover&#8217;s route and context for recent rock drilling activities.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Livestream\" href=\"www.livestream.com\/lpsc2013\" target=\"_blank\">The news conference will be streamed live online. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, April 10, Schmidt will also talk about her experiences with the mission and how the rover&#8217;s discoveries in the Gale Crater tell the story of environments on Mars through time as part of the Faculty of Math and Science&#8217;s Distinguished Speaker Series.<\/p>\n<p>The talk happens at 7 p.m. in South Block 204. Admission is free. For event information, contact Christina Phillips, faculty advancement officer at <a href=\"mailto:cphillips4@brocku.ca\">cphillips4@brocku.ca. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volcanologist Mariek Schmidt will be part of the NASA news conference for the Curiosity mission happening March 18 from noon to 1 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[448,885,884,886,3328,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21500"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34178,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21500\/revisions\/34178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}