Dr. Ashwin Vasavada: Five Discoveries About Life on Mars and More
The successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars prompted a second, fascinating conversation with Dr. Vasavada, NASA’s project scientist for the previous Curiosity rover, which has determined that the Red Planet once had conditions that would have supported life. If this were true, then the new technology on the latest rover will be looking… Read more »
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Dr. Ashwin Vasavada is a planetary scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Currently he is the Project Scientist for NASA’s Curiosity rover that began development in 2003 and successfully reached Mars in August, 2012. He now leads the international team of scientists as they explore Gale Crater on the martian surface. He has participated in the operation and analysis of data from several NASA spacecraft missions, including the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission to Saturn, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. He holds a B.S. in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from Caltech.