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Biography
Steven Weldon Squyres is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on large solid bodies in the Solar System such as the terrestrial planets and the moons of the Jovian planets. Squyres was the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER).
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Awards & recognition
- Nevada Medal · 2012
- Whipple Award · 2012
- G. K. Gilbert Award · 2011
- Carl Sagan Medal — Excellence in Public Communication in Planetary Science · 2009
- Benjamin Franklin Medal · 2007
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- NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award · 2007
- Harold C. Urey Prize · 1987
