Edwin L. Aguirre
How did Mars form? How did it become the frozen desert that it is today? Did liquid water last long enough on the Martian surface to potentially support the development of microbial life?
These are just some of the questions that NASAâs latest and most sophisticated rover, named âPerseverance,â will try to answer as it embarks on a multiyear exploration of the red planet.
Noureddine Melikechi, dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences and a professor in the Department of Physics and Applied Physics, is part of the science team for SuperCam, one of the main instruments onboard Perseverance that will be conducting experiments on the surface of Mars.