• Question: What would you like to achieve in your science career?!

    Asked by Steffi to Lucy on 6 Mar 2017. This question was also asked by 866spah25.
    • Photo: Lucy Kissick

      Lucy Kissick answered on 6 Mar 2017:

      My absolute dream is to go to Mars, either as a quick geologic survey or to start a permanent settlement, but this is very unlikely! I’ll happily settle for leading the science team of a robotic mission one day: being the person who says “Let’s make our rover visit *that* rock tomorrow”. This could be on Mars but also Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, or Enceladus, one of Saturn’s, which both have oceans under their icy crusts and are even more exciting to scientists searching for extraterrestrial life.

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    Stephen commented on :

    I think getting the Mars Rover finished, launch and landed successfully would be pretty good. After that . . . who knows? There are lots of interesting space projects to think up. I’ve worked on early stage concept fro a Mars Sample Return mission, where we would launch a system to collect a Mars rock and launch it back to Earth? It would be fun to work on a full project to turn that into a reality.