Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Source
- Conference: Brookhaven Science Associates' Distinguished Lecture Series, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York (United States), presented on October 05, 2007
- Subject
- 58 GEOSCIENCES
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
- Language
- English
One of the most important scientific goals of the mission was to find and identify a variety of rocks and soils that provide evidence of the past presence of water on the planet. To obtain this information, Squyres is studying the data obtained on Mars by several sophisticated scientific instruments.