Our guest is Dr. Meenakshi “Mini” Wadhwa, professor and the Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University (ASU). She is a planetary scientist and isotope cosmochemist interested in the time scales and processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Solar System and planets, and she was also a recent keynote speaker for the Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2022). Beyond being an expert in planetary materials like meteorites, Dr. Wadhwa is also the Principal Scientist for NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program.
This program is an interactive talk show where our guests answer questions from our host, Dr. Graham Lau, as well as questions submitted via Twitter and YouTube. For more information, visit the official website of Ask An Astrobiologist.
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