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Steven Weldon Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Squyres is currently the scientific Principal Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Project. He is also a co-investigator on the Mars Express mission, and on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment.
Steve Squyres is best known for his key role as principal Investigator for the science payload on the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1981 and spent five years as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center (ARC) before returning to Cornell as a faculty member.
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Oct 26, 2022 · Steve Squyres, the principal investigator of the Opportunity mission, could have switched to Saturn. But learning about water on Mars kept him going for 30 years.
Apr 29, 2019 · Steve Squyres, principal investigator for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission, and Matt Golombek, the mission’s project scientist, discussed the ground-breaking science returned by the mission’s twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on Feb. 13, 2019.
Steven W. Squyres. Year. 2007. Subject. Earth and Environmental Science. Award. Benjamin Franklin Medal. Affiliation. Cornell University | Ithaca, New York. Citation. For the discovery and elucidation of water on Mars through the "robotic geologists" of the Mars Exploration Rovers.
