My research focuses on wind and how wind
has changed the surface of Mars
and one of the really exciting things about the
landing area is that wind has altered
and eroded the surface in Jezero crater
for billions and millions of years so
for my research I'm really excited to
see what the rover finds and really
study and look at how wind has changed
the surface over really long timescales.
For my research one of the things that
makes Mars particularly special is that
wind is really dominating the surface of
Mars and we have wind on earth but we
also have glaciers and water and those
things act much faster so it's really
hard to tell exactly what wind is doing
on earth because it gets overprinted and
kind of erased really quickly so the
nice thing about Mars is we can use the
rover to study what happens when you
just kind of let wind go and let wind
do its thing
for billions of billions of years so the
rover is going to encounter all of these
things that have been carved by wind and
seeing exactly what those look like is
going to be a very exciting experience.
