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Javier Gómez-Elvira
director of the Payload and Space Science Department, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
Javier Gómez-Elvira is director of the Payload and Space Science Department at Spain’s Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA) and former director of its Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA). He is the principal investigator of the REMS weather sensor instrument on the Curiosity rover and coinvestigator of the similar MEDA instrument on the Mars 2020 rover.
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What Comes Next on Mars?
Javier Gómez-Elvira anticipates the next phase of the search for life on the Red Planet.