NASA’s “EXPLORE MOONtoMARS”

This lecture consists of two parts.

Part I will give an overview of NASA’s “EXPLORE MOONtoMARS” program, celebrate the Apollo program and describe its sister Artemis program that NASA is working on to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024, including the first woman and the next man.

Part II will introduce NASA’s Solar System Treks (SST – https://trek.nasa.gov) which is a free resource that contributes to mission planning, science, education and public engagement. SST portals enable engineers, researcher, students and general public to study surface of the Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, Titan, IcyMoons and Mercury as well as a growing number of other worlds. The portals aim to provide interactive and innovation ways to support solar system exploration and planning of future space missions, advance scientific research and discovery, as well as inspire, inform and educate worldwide audience.

Emily Law speaker biography

Emily Law has over twenty years of experience in research, development and management of complex information systems. Since 1996, she has been working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she has provided leadership and management in the architecture, development, technology and operations of highly distributed ground data systems for planetary exploration and earth science. Emily currently serves as Deputy Program Manager and Development Manager to two separate directorates covering data systems in solar system research and earth science. She also leads operations for NASA’s Planetary Data System, and oversees the development and operations of science data infrastructures and portals in support of Earth and Planetary science including the Solar System Treks Project (SSTP). She has authored papers and made numerous presentations on data intensive systems at various national and international venues.

The event is organized in cooperation with The Danish Astronautical Society.