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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Libby Hausrath

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Elisabeth "Libby" Hausrath — a UNLV College of Sciences professor, astrobiologist, and aqueous geochemist who investigates interactions between water and minerals — is a member of the NASA Mars Sample Return team that helps determine which specimens the rover Perseverance will bring back to Earth for inspection by powerful lab equipment too large to send to Mars. She’s also the lead author of a new research article published in the American Geophysical Union/Wiley journal JGR Planets documenting the first soil samples collected.

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