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| birth_place = [[Wenonah, New Jersey|Wenonah]], [[New Jersey]], U.S. |
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| nationality = American |
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| alma_mater = [[Cornell University]] |
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| occupation = Astronomer |
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| known_for = [[Spirit rover]] and [[Opportunity rover]] |
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| awards = [[Harold C. Urey Prize]] <small>(1987)</small><br/>[[Carl Sagan Memorial Award]] {{small|(2004)}}<br/>[[Whipple Award]] {{small|(2012)}} |
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'''Steven Weldon Squyres''' (born January 9, 1956) is an American |
'''Steven Weldon Squyres''' (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of [[Physical Sciences]] at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref>"Steve Squyres." ''Almanac of Famous People''. Gale, 2011. ''Biography in Context''. Retrieved May 23, 2014.</ref><ref name="astro.cornell.edu">[http://astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=112 Cornell University Department of Astronomy Faculty]</ref> His research area is in [[planetary sciences]], with a focus on large solid bodies in the [[Solar System]] such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres was the [[principal investigator]] of the [[Mars Exploration Rover Mission]] (MER). |
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Squyres is the recipient of the 2004 [[Carl Sagan Memorial Award]] and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary Science. Squyres also received the 2010 Mines Medal for his achievements as a researcher and professor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mines-medal.sdsmt.edu/ |title= |
Squyres is the recipient of the 2004 [[Carl Sagan Memorial Award]] and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary Science. Squyres also received the 2010 Mines Medal for his achievements as a researcher and professor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mines-medal.sdsmt.edu/ |title=Mines Medal |access-date=2010-10-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031012906/http://mines-medal.sdsmt.edu/ |archive-date=2010-10-31 }}</ref> He is the brother of [[Academy Award]]-nominated film editor [[Tim Squyres]]. |
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On September 13, 2019, Squyres announced that he would retire from Cornell on September 22, 2019 to take the position of |
On September 13, 2019, Squyres announced that he would retire from Cornell University on September 22, 2019 to take the position of Chief Scientist at [[Blue Origin]], an [[aerospace manufacturer]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cornellsun.com/2019/09/13/mars-rover-lead-prof-steve-squyres-to-leave-cornell-for-amazons-blue-origin/|title = Mars Rover Lead Prof. Steve Squyres to Leave Cornell for Bezos's Blue Origin|date = 13 September 2019}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
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Squyres was raised in the town of [[Wenonah, New Jersey|Wenonah]] in southwest [[New Jersey]] |
Squyres was raised in the town of [[Wenonah, New Jersey|Wenonah]] in southwest [[New Jersey]]<ref>{{cite news | last=Riordan | first=Kevin | title=Mars mission's lead scientist saw stars long ago | publisher=[[The Courier-Post]] (Cherry Hill, NJ) | date=2004-01-20 | url=http://www.courierpostonline.com/columnists/cxri012004a.htm | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724123009/http://www.courierpostonline.com/columnists/cxri012004a.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-07-24 | access-date=2006-12-30}}</ref> and attended [[Gateway Regional High School (New Jersey)|Gateway Regional High School]] in [[Woodbury Heights, New Jersey]].<ref name="Mars Exploration: Zip Code Mars">[https://web.archive.org/web/20060614232553/http://zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov/bio-contribution.cfm?bid=206&cid=197&pid=197 Mars Exploration: Zip Code Mars]. Accessed June 13, 2007.</ref> |
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==Education== |
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Squyres received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[Geology|Geological Sciences]] from [[Cornell University]] in 1978<ref name="Mars Exploration: Zip Code Mars"/><ref>[http://www.fi.edu/winners/2007/squyres_steven.faw?winner_id=4406 Franklin Laureate Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102070155/http://www.fi.edu/winners/2007/squyres_steven.faw?winner_id=4406 |date=2013-11-02 }}</ref> and his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[Planetary science|planetary studies]] from Cornell University in 1981,<ref name="astro.cornell.edu"/><ref>[http://www.astro.cornell.edu/members/display/former-phds.html/page:2 Cornell University Astronomy Former PhDs]</ref> where he worked closely with [[Carl Sagan]].<ref>[http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/SquyresSagan.html Cornell Chronicle: Squyres wins Sagan medal]</ref> He is a member of the [[Fraternities and sororities|college fraternity]] [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]] ({{lang|grc|ΤΚΕ}}). |
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==Career== |
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Squyres then spent five years as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA's [[Ames Research Center]] before returning to Cornell as a faculty member. He received the [[ |
Squyres then spent five years as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA's [[Ames Research Center]] before returning to Cornell University as a faculty member. He received the [[Harold C. Urey Prize]] from the Planetary Division of the [[American Astronomical Society]] in 1987. In 2007, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin medal in Earth and Environmental Science<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131102070155/http://www.fi.edu/winners/2007/squyres_steven.faw?winner_id=4406] "2007 winners," Franklin Institute</ref> from the [[Franklin Institute]] in [[Philadelphia]]. |
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==NASA== |
===NASA=== |
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[[File:20040115 Sp Egress-br.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.1|Squyres reacts to the images of ''[[Spirit (rover)|Spirit]]'' leaving its lander, January 2004]] |
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| ⚫ | [[Image:Squyres underwater.jpg|thumbnail|upright=1.1|Squyres performing underwater [[Extravehicular activity|EVA]] during the [[NEEMO]] 15 mission, October 2011]] |
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Squyres has participated in many of [[NASA]]'s planetary exploration missions. From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate of the [[Voyager program|Voyager]] mission to [[Jupiter]] and [[Saturn]], participating in analysis of imaging data. He subsequently worked as a radar investigator on the [[Magellan probe|Magellan]] mission to [[Venus]], and with the [[Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous]] mission. Along with his work as principal investigator on the [[Mars Exploration Rover|MER]] (Mars Exploration Rovers), he is also a co-investigator on the 2003 [[Mars Express]] and 2005 [[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]] missions, a member of the [[Gamma ray|Gamma-Ray]] [[Spectrometer]] Flight Investigation Team for the [[Mars Odyssey]] mission, and a member of the imaging team for the [[Cassini-Huygens Mission|Cassini]] to Saturn. Squyres served as Chair of the [[NASA]] Space Science Advisory Committee and as a member of the [[NASA Advisory Council]] (NAC). In November 2011, NASA Administrator [[Charles F. Bolden Jr.|Charles Bolden]] named Squyres chairman of the NAC, succeeding Kenneth Ford, the founder and director of the [[Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition]]. |
Squyres has participated in many of [[NASA]]'s planetary exploration missions. From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate of the [[Voyager program|Voyager]] mission to [[Jupiter]] and [[Saturn]], participating in analysis of imaging data. He subsequently worked as a radar investigator on the [[Magellan probe|Magellan]] mission to [[Venus]], and with the [[Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous]] mission. Along with his work as principal investigator on the [[Mars Exploration Rover|MER]] (Mars Exploration Rovers), he is also a co-investigator on the 2003 [[Mars Express]] and 2005 [[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]] missions, a member of the [[Gamma ray|Gamma-Ray]] [[Spectrometer]] Flight Investigation Team for the [[Mars Odyssey]] mission, and a member of the imaging team for the [[Cassini-Huygens Mission|Cassini]] to Saturn. Squyres served as Chair of the [[NASA]] Space Science Advisory Committee and as a member of the [[NASA Advisory Council]] (NAC). In November 2011, NASA Administrator [[Charles F. Bolden Jr.|Charles Bolden]] named Squyres chairman of the NAC, succeeding Kenneth Ford, the founder and director of the [[Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition]]. |
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[[ABC News]] featured Squyres as its Person of the Week for January 9, 2004, and ''[[ABC World News Tonight|World News Tonight]]'' anchor [[Peter Jennings]] said he "has gotten us all excited."<ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=131839&page=1 |
[[ABC News]] featured Squyres as its Person of the Week for January 9, 2004, and ''[[ABC World News Tonight|World News Tonight]]'' anchor [[Peter Jennings]] said he "has gotten us all excited."<ref>{{cite web |title=Person of the Week: Steven Squyres |website=[[ABC News]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050817050418/https://abcnews.go.com:80/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=131839 |archive-date=2005-08-17 |url-status=live |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=131839&page=1}}</ref> Squyres was also given the 2005 Wired Rave Award for science by ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' for overseeing the creation of [[Spirit rover|Spirit]] and [[Opportunity rover|Opportunity]] that had, at the time, lasted thirteen times longer than expected (1174 vs. 90 Martian days).<ref>[https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/rave.html?pg=3 The 2005 Wired Rave Awards]</ref> |
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Squyres has written a book called ''Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet'' (published August 2005; {{ISBN|1-4013-0149-5}}), and appeared on the June 7, 2006 episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' to discuss it, Mars, and MER. The Disney [[IMAX]] documentary film ''[[Roving Mars]]'' was made from the book. |
Squyres has written a book called ''Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet'' (published August 2005; {{ISBN|1-4013-0149-5}}), and appeared on the June 7, 2006 episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' to discuss it, Mars, and MER. The Disney [[IMAX]] documentary film ''[[Roving Mars]]'' was made from the book. |
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Squyres was interviewed on ''[[60 Minutes]]'' on Sunday, April 6, 2008.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/04/60minutes/main3994925.shtml | work=CBS News | title=The Next Giant Leap For Mankind | date=2008-04-04}}</ref> |
Squyres was interviewed on ''[[60 Minutes]]'' on Sunday, April 6, 2008.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/04/60minutes/main3994925.shtml | work=CBS News | title=The Next Giant Leap For Mankind | date=2008-04-04}}</ref> |
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A portrait of Squyres by [[Wenyon & Gamble|Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon]] was on view in [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]]'s "Americans Now" exhibition, from August 20, 2010 through July 10, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/americansnow/index.html|title = Introduction}}</ref> |
A portrait of Squyres by [[Wenyon & Gamble|Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon]] was on view in [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]]'s "Americans Now" exhibition, from August 20, 2010 through July 10, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/americansnow/index.html|title = Introduction}}</ref> |
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Squyres commented in a post-NEEMO 15 interview, "I would love to continue to be part of NEEMO - in any capacity. I'd be happy to go back as a support diver. I think what they are doing is so cool and I was proud to be part of it."<ref name="Cowing">{{cite web|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.html?id=1588|title=A Post-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres|last=Cowing|first=Keith|date=November 15, 2011|publisher=SpaceRef Interactive Inc|access-date=March 15, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202174629/http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.html?id=1588|archive-date=February 2, 2013}}</ref> In June 2012, Squyres served as a crew member of the [[NEEMO#NEEMO 16: June 11–22, 2012|NEEMO 16]] mission aboard Aquarius, which began on June 11, 2012 and lasted twelve days.<ref name="sixteen">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/apr/HQ_12-116_NEEMO.html|title=NASA - NASA Announces 16th Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew|author=NASA|date=April 16, 2012|publisher=NASA|access-date=April 17, 2012}}</ref><ref name="sixteen2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/662324main_Topside-Report-MD12-Final.pdf|title=NEEMO 16 Mission Day 12 - Status Report|author=The NEEMO Mission Management and Topside Support Team|date=June 22, 2012|publisher=NASA|access-date=July 11, 2012}}</ref> |
Squyres commented in a post-NEEMO 15 interview, "I would love to continue to be part of NEEMO - in any capacity. I'd be happy to go back as a support diver. I think what they are doing is so cool and I was proud to be part of it."<ref name="Cowing">{{cite web|url=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.html?id=1588|title=A Post-Mission Conversation With NASA NEEMO Aquanaut Steve Squyres|last=Cowing|first=Keith|date=November 15, 2011|publisher=SpaceRef Interactive Inc|access-date=March 15, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130202174629/http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.rss.html?id=1588|archive-date=February 2, 2013}}</ref> In June 2012, Squyres served as a crew member of the [[NEEMO#NEEMO 16: June 11–22, 2012|NEEMO 16]] mission aboard Aquarius, which began on June 11, 2012 and lasted twelve days.<ref name="sixteen">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/apr/HQ_12-116_NEEMO.html|title=NASA - NASA Announces 16th Undersea Exploration Mission Dates and Crew|author=NASA|date=April 16, 2012|publisher=NASA|access-date=April 17, 2012}}</ref><ref name="sixteen2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/662324main_Topside-Report-MD12-Final.pdf|title=NEEMO 16 Mission Day 12 - Status Report|author=The NEEMO Mission Management and Topside Support Team|date=June 22, 2012|publisher=NASA|access-date=July 11, 2012}}</ref> |
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Squyres also contributed to the DAN instrument on the ''Curiosity'' rover. |
Squyres also contributed to the [[Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons|DAN]] instrument on the [[Curiosity (rover)|''Curiosity'' rover]]. |
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==Mars Science Laboratory== |
===Mars Science Laboratory=== |
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Squyres said in an interview that he would not be the principal investigator for the [[Mars Science Laboratory]], launched in 2011, as he did not want to be away from his family again for a long period (as happened during the Mars Exploration Rover Mission).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/8.19.04/Squyres_interview.html |title= |
Squyres said in an interview that he would not be the principal investigator for the [[Mars Science Laboratory]], launched in 2011, as he did not want to be away from his family again for a long period (as happened during the Mars Exploration Rover Mission).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/8.19.04/Squyres_interview.html |title=Steve Squyres interview July 2004 |access-date=2005-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207175208/http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/8.19.04/Squyres_interview.html |archive-date=2005-02-07 }}</ref> |
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==References== |
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== External links == |
== External links == |
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* [http://astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=112 Cornell Astronomy Dept.] |
* [http://astro.cornell.edu/people/facstaff-detail.php?pers_id=112 Cornell Astronomy Dept.] |
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* [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B5749-67A2-1150-A5AC83414B7F0000&ref=sciam&chanID=sa006 Scientific American: Father of Spirit and Opportunity] With the success of twin rovers on the Red Planet, Steven W. Squyres and his team are showing how to conduct robotic missions—and setting the stage for human exploration |
* [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B5749-67A2-1150-A5AC83414B7F0000&ref=sciam&chanID=sa006 Scientific American: Father of Spirit and Opportunity] With the success of twin rovers on the Red Planet, Steven W. Squyres and his team are showing how to conduct robotic missions—and setting the stage for human exploration |
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* [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html Mars Exploration Rovers] |
* [http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html Mars Exploration Rovers] |
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060614232553/http://zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov/bio-contribution.cfm?bid=206&cid=197&pid=197 Squyres bio] at ''Zip Code Mars'' page |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060614232553/http://zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov/bio-contribution.cfm?bid=206&cid=197&pid=197 Squyres bio] at ''Zip Code Mars'' page |
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*[http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ Mars Exploration Rovers Mission Update blog] |
* [http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/ Mars Exploration Rovers Mission Update blog] |
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* [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March07/squyres.franklin.html Squyres receives Benjamin Franklin Medal for Mars Rover leadership; meanwhile, rovers keep proving their mettle], Cornell Chronicle (20 March 2007) |
* [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March07/squyres.franklin.html Squyres receives Benjamin Franklin Medal for Mars Rover leadership; meanwhile, rovers keep proving their mettle], Cornell Chronicle (20 March 2007) |
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrOmRQuaCY Video of Steve Squyres discussing the Spirit and Opportunity missions] |
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrOmRQuaCY Video of Steve Squyres discussing the Spirit and Opportunity missions] |
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* [http://asunews.asu.edu/20101007_shoemakeraward Arizona State University presents Shoemaker Award to NASA's MER chief scientist] |
* [http://asunews.asu.edu/20101007_shoemakeraward Arizona State University presents Shoemaker Award to NASA's MER chief scientist] |
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* [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/70321/june-07-2006/steve-squyres Steve Squyres talks about space exploration with Stephen Colbert on June 7, 2006.] |
* [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/70321/june-07-2006/steve-squyres Steve Squyres talks about space exploration with Stephen Colbert on June 7, 2006.] |
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*[https://www.youtube.com/NatlPortraitGallery#p/a/u/0/DtMLzn40XzQ Steven Squyres speaks at National Portrait Gallery about his role in launching |
* [https://www.youtube.com/NatlPortraitGallery#p/a/u/0/DtMLzn40XzQ Steven Squyres speaks at National Portrait Gallery about his role in launching uncrewed missions to Mars] |
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Steven W. Squyres
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| Born | (1956-01-09) January 9, 1956 (age 68)
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (B.A. and PhD) |
| Occupation | Astronomer |
| Known for | Spirit rover and Opportunity rover |
| Awards | Harold C. Urey Prize (1987) Carl Sagan Memorial Award (2004) Whipple Award (2012) |
Steven Weldon Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical SciencesatCornell UniversityinIthaca, New York.[1][2] His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the Solar System such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres was the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER).
Squyres is the recipient of the 2004 Carl Sagan Memorial Award and the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal for Excellence in Communication in Planetary Science. Squyres also received the 2010 Mines Medal for his achievements as a researcher and professor.[3] He is the brother of Academy Award-nominated film editor Tim Squyres.
On September 13, 2019, Squyres announced that he would retire from Cornell University on September 22, 2019 to take the position of Chief Scientist at Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer.[4]
Squyres was raised in the town of Wenonah in southwest New Jersey[5] and attended Gateway Regional High SchoolinWoodbury Heights, New Jersey.[6]
Squyres received his B.A.inGeological Sciences from Cornell University in 1978[6][7] and his Ph.D.inplanetary studies from Cornell University in 1981,[2][8] where he worked closely with Carl Sagan.[9] He is a member of the college fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon (ΤΚΕ).
Squyres then spent five years as a postdoctoral associate and research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center before returning to Cornell University as a faculty member. He received the Harold C. Urey Prize from the Planetary Division of the American Astronomical Society in 1987. In 2007, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin medal in Earth and Environmental Science[10] from the Franklin InstituteinPhiladelphia.
Squyres has participated in many of NASA's planetary exploration missions. From 1978 to 1981 he was an associate of the Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn, participating in analysis of imaging data. He subsequently worked as a radar investigator on the Magellan mission to Venus, and with the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission. Along with his work as principal investigator on the MER (Mars Exploration Rovers), he is also a co-investigator on the 2003 Mars Express and 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions, a member of the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Flight Investigation Team for the Mars Odyssey mission, and a member of the imaging team for the Cassini to Saturn. Squyres served as Chair of the NASA Space Science Advisory Committee and as a member of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). In November 2011, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden named Squyres chairman of the NAC, succeeding Kenneth Ford, the founder and director of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.
ABC News featured Squyres as its Person of the Week for January 9, 2004, and World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings said he "has gotten us all excited."[11] Squyres was also given the 2005 Wired Rave Award for science by Wired for overseeing the creation of Spirit and Opportunity that had, at the time, lasted thirteen times longer than expected (1174 vs. 90 Martian days).[12]
Squyres has written a book called Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet (published August 2005; ISBN 1-4013-0149-5), and appeared on the June 7, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report to discuss it, Mars, and MER. The Disney IMAX documentary film Roving Mars was made from the book.
Squyres was interviewed on 60 Minutes on Sunday, April 6, 2008.[13]
A portrait of Squyres by Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon was on view in National Portrait Gallery's "Americans Now" exhibition, from August 20, 2010 through July 10, 2011.[14]
On September 19, 2011, NASA announced that Squyres would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 15 undersea exploration mission from October 17–30, 2011.[15] Delayed by stormy weather and high seas, the mission began on October 20, 2011.[16][17] On the afternoon of October 21, Squyres and his crewmates officially became aquanauts, having spent over 24 hours underwater. NEEMO 15 ended early on October 26 due to the approach of Hurricane Rina.[16]
Squyres commented in a post-NEEMO 15 interview, "I would love to continue to be part of NEEMO - in any capacity. I'd be happy to go back as a support diver. I think what they are doing is so cool and I was proud to be part of it."[18] In June 2012, Squyres served as a crew member of the NEEMO 16 mission aboard Aquarius, which began on June 11, 2012 and lasted twelve days.[19][20]
Squyres also contributed to the DAN instrument on the Curiosity rover.
Squyres said in an interview that he would not be the principal investigator for the Mars Science Laboratory, launched in 2011, as he did not want to be away from his family again for a long period (as happened during the Mars Exploration Rover Mission).[21]
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