What Does It Take To Be A Mars Landing Site Specialist?
Jim Rice, NASA Mars Landing Site Specialist
“Jim Rice, now a veteran of the site-selection process, got his first taste in 1994 with NASA’s Mars Pathfinder mission. “I was just a graduate student then, and I can’t tell you how excited I was,” he says. “It was the first mission to land on Mars in more than 20 years, and my site was chosen for the landing!”
