More than four hundred students in Secondary Schools in Jumilla, Infanta Elena, Archbishop Lozano, Cruz de Piedra, and Yecla, Azorin and Castillo Puche, attend morning at the Teatro Vico, the conference has organized the Ministry of Education through the Foundation for Medical Research (FEM), in which the science of astrobiology, entitled "From Earth to Space" will be addressed.
The conference, which was first developed in Jumilla, and next Friday, 27 in the town of Molina de Segura Theater, will lead researcher of the Institute of Geosciences, IGEO (CSIC-UCM) and director of REDESPA, Jesús Martínez-Frías aimed at students of Jumilla and Yecla.
Jesús Martínez-Frías is the only scientist CSIC-UCM participating as co-investigator on the three missions to Mars NASA (MSL Curiosity and Mars 2020).
During the conference, among other things, the rapporteur will discuss the research in the search for life on other planets, why it is important to find life in space and whether and how this would benefit humanity, or the difference between life and habitability will be some of the concepts you learn the young people attending the lecture.
The study of weightlessness, cosmic phenomena, and geology of other planets, and how they contribute to these advances in biomedicine developed on Earth will also be topics discussed during the conference.
In the field of planetary science, the EMF has promoted the implementation of two thematic conferences, one focusing on the search for life on Mars, in 2012 and another on meteorites and impact, in 2013, both in Molina de Segura.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla