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NASA Selects Scientists for Mars Rover Research Projects

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA has chosen 28 specialists as partaking Researchers for the Curiosity Mars wanderer mission, including six newcomers to the meanderer's science group. The six new increases work in Alabama, Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Tennessee. Eighty-nine researchers around the globe submitted research proposition for utilizing information from Curiosity and getting to be taking an Interest Researchers on the Mars Science Laboratory Project, which manufactured and works the wanderer. The 28 chose by NASA are a piece of a science group that additionally incorporates around 120 different individuals, mostly the essential specialists and co-agents for the meanderer's 10 science instruments, in addition to around 320 science-group colleagues, for example, the examiners' partners and understudies. An underlying gathering of Mars Science Laboratory taking an interest researchers was picked before Curiosity's 2012 arriving on Mars, and a few of those researchers were chosen again in the most recent round. Taking part researchers on the mission assume dynamic parts in the everyday science operations of Curiosity, including substantial connection with wanderer specialists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. JPL deals with the mission for NASA. The six taking an interest researchers who are new to the mission are: Barbara Cohen, of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama; Christopher Fedo of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Raina Gough of the University of Colorado, Boulder; Briony Horgan of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Christopher House of Pennsylvania State University, University Park; and Mark Salvatore of the University of Michigan, Dearborn. Seven other recently chose taking an interest researchers have taken an interest in the Curiosity mission already in different parts: Christopher Edwards, U.S. Land Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona; Abigail Fraeman, JPL; Scott Guzewich, Universities Space Research Association, Greenbelt, Maryland; Craig Hardgrove, Arizona State University, Tempe; Amy McAdam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; Melissa Rice, Western Washington University, Bellingham; and Kathryn Stack Morgan, JPL. Fifteen analysts who had been chosen already as Mars Science Laboratory taking an interest researchers were chosen again in this round: Raymond Arvidson, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; John Bridges, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Bethany Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Jennifer Eigenbrode, NASA Goddard; Kenneth Farley, Caltech; John Grant, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Jeffrey Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland; Richard Léveillé, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Kevin Lewis, Johns Hopkins University; Scott McLennan, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Ralph Milliken, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; John Moores, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; David Rubin, University of California, Santa Cruz; Mariek Schmidt, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada; Rebecca Williams, Planetary Science Institute, Madison, Wisconsin. /Nasa.Gov orginal post/


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