Courtney Dressing

Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley

Courtney Dressing is an observational astronomer and associate professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 2004, Dressing participated in The Planetary Society's Student Astronaut program as one of 16 high school students selected through a worldwide competition to work inside Mars Exploration Rover mission operations. Dressing was present for the landing of the Spirit rover on Mars.

Latest Planetary Radio Appearances

The Red Rover Goes to Mars spacecraft DVD assembly

The legacy of Red Rover Goes to Mars

Twenty years after a pioneering collaboration between The Planetary Society, NASA, and LEGO, Planetary Radio reflects on the Red Rover Goes to Mars program and the lives it impacted.

A Recipe for a Small Planet

Astronomer and planetary scientist Courtney Dressing is the lead author of research that may have found the formula for the mass and composition of Earth-like planets. She reveals the ingredients and why she spent time at JPL while in high school.