Cosciotti (Roma Tre): “Esplorare il significato della ricerca nei nuovi mondi”
(Adnkronos) - Cosciotti: “Condividere la passione per l'esplorazione dei pianeti e delle loro lune ghiacciate. Il dipartimento mira a coinvolgere il pubblico, trasmettendo la curiosità per i misteri dei mondi spaziali” così Barbara Cosciotti, Ricercatrice Matematica e Fisica Università Roma Tre a margine di Maker Faire Rome, il più grande evento europeo sull'innovazione tenutosi alla Nuova Fiera di Roma.
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00:00 What is the most important thing you have achieved in the past year?
00:04 What we wanted to bring to this big environment is that all our worlds,
00:12 those we study in our department, to try to make people understand,
00:18 to make people go down, to transmit all our emotions,
00:22 the desire we have to discover these planets with their icy moons
00:26 and their mysteries still to be solved.
00:29 We have studied our Earth a lot, we have understood many things,
00:35 but there are also others to discover, and thanks to the same techniques
00:39 with which we have studied our Earth, we want to study the other worlds
00:44 of our solar system.
00:46 At the base of all space missions, as a guiding thread,
00:50 there is the search for water.
00:52 Water as a vital element at the base of all metabolic processes,
00:55 which will give us an indication of life.
00:58 If there is water in the liquid state, there is life,
01:00 life understood as monocellular organisms.
01:04 We have been studying for years the electrical characteristics of materials
01:09 that simulate the surface of these planets.
01:12 Why? Because at the base of these electrical properties,
01:15 there is the possibility of estimating the performance of the radars
01:19 that are used on the orbiters precisely to investigate these planets.
01:24 When man cannot physically go to these planets,
01:28 the only way we have is to study them from afar.
01:31 The radar is one of the most used and efficient geophysical research techniques,
01:37 because by orbiting around the planet and sending an electromagnetic wave,
01:42 it is possible to understand the internal structure of the surface.
01:47 I must say that young people are especially interested,
01:51 because it is a way to look at this world from afar,
01:55 and a way to come here and touch with the hand what it means to research these new worlds.