Join us for a special event to learn about how we’re exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument. By examining the dust and rock of Mars’s ancient environment, this mission is searching for answers to a question that has fascinated humanity for ages: is there life out there in the universe? Canada’s APXS instrument is helping scientists get a clearer picture of the answer!
Patrick Hill is a Mission Scientist in Planetary Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, where he helps lead Canada’s efforts in exploring the solar system. He received his PhD from Western University, where he examined meteorites, Apollo samples, and terrestrial impactites to investigate the origin of lunar material and the processes that shape the Moon’s surface. At the Canadian Space Agency, he contributes to the Lunar Exploration Program, advances preparations for the curation of the Canadian portion of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, and manages the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument on the Curiosity rover.
