# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Astrobiology and the Torridonian
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an evening exploring one of the most profound scientific questions of our time: did life ever exist on Mars?About this EventMars is thought to have been habitable early throughout its history (>3 billion years ago), when it sustained an atmosphere and stable bodies of liquid water at its surface. Although the surface of Mars is now entirely inhospitable, traces of a putative biosphere may be archived within its sedimentary rock record. The potential of finding fossilised traces of life on Mars has been the driving force behind itsexploration for several decades, and continues with the NASA Curiosity andPerseverance rovers, which are currently exploring Gale and Jezero craters. A recent discovery by Perseverance of organic matter associated with reduced mineral phases in the Neretva Vallis river channel has stimulated new interest in the possibility of a Martian biosphere, and these materials have been sampled for eventual return to Earth.Until we achieve Mars Sample Return, developing hypotheses about Mars’ early habitable history requires us to harness understanding of similar localities here on Earth; we term such setting ‘planetary field analogues’. In this talk, I will discuss the importance of planetary field analogues for understanding ancient Martian environments, and consider how exceptionally well-preserved fossiliferous sedimentary rocks from the Torridon Group of NW Scotland provide insights into potential habitable environments on early Mars and the types of biosignatures for which we might search following the sophisticated laboratory analysis of Martiansamples brought to Earth in the future.Keyron Hickman Lewis, GSG Grant Awardee, School of Natural Sciences, Birkbeck College, London
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- **Event Categories**: nonprofit
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Glasgow
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Kelvin Hall
- **lat**: 55.86866699999999
- **long**: -4.2939475
- **full address**: Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Astrobiology and the Torridonian being held?
  - **A:** Astrobiology and the Torridonian takes place on Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Astrobiology and the Torridonian?
  - **A:** Astrobiology and the Torridonian is organized by The Geological Society of Glasgow.

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