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Celebrating the landing of the Curiosity rover

Celebrating the landing of the Curiosity rover
Celebrating the landing of the Curiosity rover Laurie Leshin, second from left, celebrates the landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover with other members of the science teams at JPL. Leshin is a co-Investigator on two of the rover’s instruments, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) tool and the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS). She previously served as a long-term planner on the mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech