Mars Rovers and Middle School

2010 Mines Medalist Steven Squyres, Ph.D. takes time to visit tomorrow's leaders at Dakota Middle School. The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology named Squyres the 2010 recipient of the prestigious Mines Medal. Squyres is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and the principal investigator for the science payload on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project. Squyres successfully conceived, organized, and led the exploration of the planet Mars with two small rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. He is also a co-investigator on the Mars Express mission and on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment.

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Science & Technology

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• educational
• science & technology
• mars rover
• mines medal
• sdsmt
• sdsm&t
• robotics
• nasa
• space