With the success of the recent Mars Rover Curiosity landing, Cedar Crest College is bringing someone from NASA to campus to provide some insight on space exploration and the Mars mission. Jennifer Stern, Ph.D., space scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Planetary Environments Laboratory, will present a lecture on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Alumnae Hall.

The program is free to the public.

Stern’s lab specializes in studying the atmosphere and surface of Mars, and developing instruments to make geochemical measurements on planetary surfaces. She is a member of the science team for the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity, which landed in Gale Crater on Mars in August 2012. She is also a team member on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Suite, one of the 10 instruments on Curiosity, which uses mass and laser spectrometry to measure the chemical composition of the atmosphere and surface of Mars.

For information or to register (required) call 610-606-4666, ext. 3511.