Formal Talk with Aine O’Brien – Organic molecules on Mars and in the Winchcombe Meteorite

Formal Talk with Aine O’Brien – Organic molecules on Mars and in the Winchcombe Meteorite

Aine O’Brien will give a talk entitled “Organic molecules on Mars and in the Winchcombe Meteorite”

She says: “I will talk about my PhD research developing techniques to detect complex carbon-based molecules in meteorites from Mars and elsewhere in the solar system, and the role that plays in our understanding of the habitability of the red planet. I’ll also talk about my part of the successful field search team for the Winchcombe meteorite and the experiment I did extracting the organic content in the meteorite, and other exciting analyses that have so far been done on the sample.”