23 July 2024
Event
International
An exceptional evening of astronomy with Nathalie Cabrol and Sylvestre Maurice
Published on14.05.2024
The Imax™ theater at the Cité de l’espace was full on Monday, April 8th, for a special Astronomy evening featuring two exceptional guests: Nathalie Cabrol, French astrobiologist, NASA researcher, Director of the Carl Sagan research center of the Seti Institute, and world specialist in the search for extraterrestrial life, and a planetology expert, and Sylvestre Maurice, astrophysicist at the Research Institute of Astrophysics and Planetology, co-inventor of ChemCam and Supercam instruments on Martian Rovers and a longtime friend of the Cité de l’espace.
The meeting was followed by a dedication session with Nathalie Cabrol for her latest book, À l’Aube de Nouveaux Horizons, published on April 10th, in paperback by Editions J’ai Lu. This book deals with the exploration of our solar system, the search for exoplanets, extraterrestrial signals and the types of civilizations or life that we can expect to find there.
Guests attending the event had the privilege of watching a live broadcast of the solar eclipse visible from North America commented on from Dallas by the Cité de l’espace’s special correspondent, Philippe Droneau.
