UT Fellow Advocated for Location of Next Mars Rover Mission

Jezero crater.

NASA has announced the landing site for its next rover mission which is set to launch in 2020 and it’s heading to a particular spot thanks to a doctor at the University of Texas.

Tim Goudge is a Postdoctoral Fellow at UT’s Jackson School of Geosciences. His expertise: planetary geology.

Goudge says the landing selection process for the next Mars rover mission started in 2014 as an open call to the science community

 

Fox 7 Austin, Nov.21, 2018

The Texas Standard, Nov.26,2018

 

Featuring: Tim Goudge, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geological Sciences