Monthly Archives: June 2022
Time Machine
I am not a geologist by any stretch of the imagination, yet I do help operate a mobile geology lab on Mars and occasionally get asked about why we should explore Mars in the first place. I usually mumble something about geology and why rocks are important and how water was probably there once and…
Robots and Interviews
As far as I could tell at the time, my very first interview at JPL did not go well. This was at the end of an internship when I was poking around about full time jobs and my mentor helped me set up a meeting with a couple of supervisors. I was expecting a friendly…