Steven Squyres

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American astronomer

United States ScientistsBorn 1957 · age 69

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Steven Weldon Squyres is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

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Squyres reacts to the images of Spirit leaving its lander, January 2004

Squyres performing underwater EVA during the NEEMO 15 mission, October 2011

Awards 7

2012Whipple Award

2012Nevada Medal

2011G. K. Gilbert Award

2009Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science

2007Benjamin Franklin Medal

2007NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award

1987Harold C. Urey Prize

Connected to Steven 6

Burt RutanAlso won NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award

Maria T. ZuberAlso won G. K. Gilbert Award

Heidi B. HammelAlso won Harold C. Urey Prize

Charles ElachiAlso won Nevada Medal

Bruce C. MurrayAlso won Whipple Award

André BrahicAlso won Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science

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Steven Weldon Squyres is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the Solar System such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres was the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER).

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