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YouTube recordings of presentations
Water, water everywhere? A history of the hunt for lunar water from Harold Urey to Artemis and Beyond (2023)
C. Hayes, Speaker’s Night, RASC-Toronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Abdeo7knds&t=3s
10 years (and counting) of Curiosity. (2023)
A. Innanen, Speaker’s Night, RASC-Toronto Center Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BIrgqrplGE
The search for water in the solar system. (2018)
J.L. Kloos, Speaker’s Night, RASC-Toronto Center Meeting
The Science of Planetary Atmospheres (2019)
J.E. Moores, AAVSO/RASC Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymyme7GnrVA
The Adventure of Space Science and Exploration: A Canadian Perspective (2023)
J.E. Moores, Speaker’s Night RASC-Toronto Center Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xpQOZPKYV8
Intraterrestrial to Extraterrestrial: Deep Subsurface Microbial Communities and (the search for) Life on Mars (2023)
H. Sapers, Speaker’s Night RASC-Toronto Center Meeting
Methane on Mars: Fact, Folly or Figment? (2020)
J.E. Moores, David Dunlap Observatory Astronomy Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuHdV--b2zw&t=1770s
The Cinematography of the Sky: Making Movies on Other Planets (2021)
J.E. Moores, David Dunlap Observatory Astronomy Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYeNuInb2w&t=1472s
Scattering throughout the solar system (2019)
B. Cooper, Speaker’s Night, RASC-Toronto Center Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V7AONC4uFY
Martian Weather: Is it really different from winter in Canada? (2017)
C. Moore, Speaker’s Night, RASC-Toronto Center Meeting
A selection of reporting on my work and expertise in print
In a first, hear a Mars rover get hit by a 387-foot dust devil (2022)
J. Archenback, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/12/13/mars-rover-dust-devil/
Clara is a story of Exoplanets, existential longing - and real science. (2018)
L. Billings, Scientific American
First you see it, then you don’t: scientists closer to explaining mars methane mystery (2021)
L. Shekhtman, NASA.gov
We asked a physicist what would happen if Jimmy ate World (2018)
D. Pacholik, Noisey Vice Media
The last days of Saturn’s Admirer (2017)
I.Semeniuk, Globe and Mail
Mars methane hunt comes up empty, flummoxing scientists (2019)
A.Witze, Nature
A few selections from broadcast media
Branson reaches the edge of space (2021)
A.Seth, CTV News Network
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2239644
Rover Perseverance set to touch down on Mars Thursday (2021)
S. Somani, Global News
https://globalnews.ca/video/7647241/rover-perseverance-set-to-touch-down-on-mars-thursday/
YorkU Processor discusses invaluable lessons learned about Saturn from Cassini Mission (2017)
Global News at Noon, September 16, 2017
2 minutes 3 questions with Prof. John Moores (2021)
Brainstorm, January 20, 2021