Steven Squyres
American astronomer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1957 · age 69
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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2012Nevada MedalAwardWhipple AwardAward2011G. K. Gilbert AwardAward2009Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary ScienceAward2007Benjamin Franklin MedalAwardNSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial AwardAward1987Harold C. Urey PrizeAward1957Born9 January 1957
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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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Born 1957 · age 69
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Burt RutanBoth received NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award
Heidi B. HammelBoth received Harold C. Urey Prize
William Kenneth HartmannBoth received Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science
Bruce C. MurrayBoth received Whipple Award
André BrahicBoth received Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary ScienceKaren Jean MeechBoth received Harold C. Urey Prize