The Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor (OWLS) is an integrated, portable, and autonomous life-detection instrument suite designed to identify and characterize life on ocean worlds. It's the first to explore a wide range of size scales - from single molecules to microscopic organisms - in a water sample. In this talk, we'll discuss why autonomy is important for this and future missions.

Speaker:
Mark Wronkiewicz, Research Data Scientist, NASA JPL

Host:
Marc Razze, Public Services Office, NASA JPL

Co-Host:
Nikki Wyrick, Public Services Office, NASA JPL

Original Air Date: September 15, 2022

More info on the OWLS project can be found here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/go/owls