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Alex Longo

Student, Cardinal Gibbons High School

Alex Longo is a graduate of the Montessori School of Raleigh and is currently a sophomore at the Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was the keynote speaker at the 2014 NASA Glenn Honor and Center Awards Ceremony. He is thrilled to be on the team contributing toward selection of the Mars 2020 mission's landing site, and it is his dream to one day be a planetary scientist.

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Why Return to the Columbia Hills?

Where should NASA’s next Mars rover, the Mars 2020 sample caching mission, land? One site under consideration is Spirit's old stomping ground, the Columbia Hills.