Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary Good Night Oppy on Tuesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Principle Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Project Steven Squyres will join via Zoom for a conversation after the screening. Squyres, professor emeritus of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, is featured in the film
The movie explores the journey of Opportunity, an exploration rover sent to Mars in 2003 by a team of scientists and researchers that included Squyres. Initially predicted to survive on the planet for 90 days, the rover—affectionately nicknamed “Oppy”—continued to explore the red planet far beyond her expiration date, lasting nearly 15 years on the planet's surface gathering data to feed back to NASA. The documentary interrogates the significance of Opportunity's endurance for the future of interstellar discovery.
Squyres’ research focuses on the robotic exploration of planetary surfaces, the history of water on Mars, geophysics and tectonics of icy satellites, tectonics of Venus, planetary gamma-ray and x-ray spectroscopy.
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From left, MFA students Gerardo Iglesias, Sarah Iqbal and Aishvarya Arora listen to observations by two young poets at the Ithaca Children’s Garden.
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Semiconductors are at the core of the economy and national security. Their importance makes them a target. Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, discusses how Cornell is helping to keep the semiconductor supply chain safe.
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The Peace Arch, situated near the westernmost point of the Canada–United States border in the contiguous United States, between Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia.
