NASA has announced the 16-member team to explore and study the planet Mars

The scientific team that will be called to design in every detail and carry out the largest -challenge- mission of the human species, was selected and announced by NASA. Sixteen scientists of various specialties from the USA, Europe, Canada and Japanwill compose the Dream Team, the “dream” team, for the implementation of the human relocation plan on the “Red Planet”. A mission that will confirm the technological evolution of man and will open horizons for even longer journeys.

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have announced the names of the 16 researchers who will write history and go down in history as pioneers. Scientists will be trained at all levels, in parallel with the studies that will be conducted by everyone in their field and will compose the human resources of the Mars Sample Return Program, the main mission of which will be to collect rocks from the surface of Mars and bring them to Earth for further study and analysis.

The 16 that will make up the group are the following:

-Laura Rodriguez – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southern California

-Michael Thorpe – Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology and Science at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston / Texas State University, San Marcos

-Audrey Bouvier – Bayerische Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth, Germany

-Andy Czaja – Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati

-Nicolas Dauphas – Origins Laboratory, the University of Chicago

-Katherine French – Central Energy Resources Science Center, US Geological Survey, Denver

-Lydia Hallis – School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK

-Rachel Harris – Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Boston

-Ernst Hauber – Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center, Germany

-Suzanne Schwenzer – School of Earth, Environment and Ecosystem Sciences, the Open University, UK

-Andrew Steele – Earth and Planetary Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

-Kimberly Tait – Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada

-Tomohiro Usui – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

-Jessica Vanhomwegen – Laboratory for Urgent Response to Biological Threats, Pasteur Institute, France

-Michael Veibel – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan State University

-Maria-Paz Zorzano Mier – Astrobiology Center, National Institute for Aerospace Technology, Spain

The first meeting and meeting of the group will take place on 28 and 29 June.