There may be a new home for Canadian space scientists in the coming months and years. A new not-for-profit research institute, called the Earth and Planetary Institute of Canada (EPIC), is aiming to resolve core issues facing Canadian space scientists (and scientists in general) that are looking to do research in Canada outside of the traditional academic sector, while at the same time providing a …
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Planetary geologist and crater expert Gordon Osinski of Western University was travelling in a remote area when he heard the historic news.
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In this episode of Terranauts we feature Dr. Gordon Osinski, a professor at Western University and the director of the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.
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For Western University, and in particular Dr. Gordon Osinski, years of hard work have led to the creation of only the second Research Institute level organization at the university, the new Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.
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The Red Planet has fascinated humanity for hundreds of years, if not millennia. The debate about whether there is and was water on Mars began to heat up once we sent the first spacecraft to the planet.
Read More »Canada's Arctic as a Moon and Mars Analog for Astronauts
We’ve all seen pictures of the moon and Mars. But did you know that Canada’s Arctic contains regions that look almost identical to the surface of the moon and Mars?
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Braden Stenning of UTIAS discussed planetary surface exploration using a network of reusable paths, a paradigm for parallel science investigations at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
Read More »Future Directions for the Canadian Space Community
Dr. Gordon “Oz” Osinski moderated a panel on possible future directions for the Canadian Space Community. On the panel were Dr. Paul Sylvester, Memorial University, Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund, Space Policy Institute, Dr. Jack Mustard, Brown University and Dr. Chris Herd, University of Alberta.
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