Western researcher hops ride to Red Planet

John Moores John Moores, a postdoctoral fellow with the Canadian Astrobiology Training Program (CATP), will be contributing to NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, once Curiosity, the most sophisticated rover to date, lands on the Red Planet in August 2012.

NASA selected Moores as one of 29 participating scientists for the mission. In eight months’ time, he will be working at mission control, contributing to the interpretation of Curiosity’s observations.

University of Western Ontario professor Gordon Osinski, Moores’ supervisor, is a CATP Co-Investigator.

Raymond Francis, a PhD fellow with the CATP, will be on Moores’ team, looking at Curiosity’s findings.

Adela Talbot , Western News - The University of Western Ontario, Communications and Public Affairs

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