An Interview with Mars Rover Team Member, Dr. Melissa Rice

Robots on Mars! This isn’t science fiction or the future; this is now. We are lucky enough to have NASA scientist, Mars rover team member, and extremely talented science communicator Dr. Melissa Rice share her knowledge for our Season 5 finale. 

 

We talk about studying the scientists that operate the rover, the history of robots on Mars and the future of Mars exploration.

 

A special thanks to Dr. Melissa Rice (the Steve Martin of Spark Science), Janet Vertesi’s book “Seeing like a Rover” and the WWU DMC.

 

A video of this interview can be viewed at https://www.sparksciencenow.com/videos/