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From the old guard to the new

From the old guard to the new
From the old guard to the new From the old guard to young planetary explorers, MER had it all. Left: MER Deputy P.I. Ray Arvidson flanked by past and present students, L-R: Scott VanBommel, Kathryn Powell, Madison Hughes, Abigail Fraeman, who is now MER Deputy Project Scientist. Right: MER Athena Science team member Mark Lemmon in green shirt and his then-student Keri Bean from Texas A&M University check out data from the Phoenix lander in 2008 at the University of Arizona, with Aaron Zent, Uwe Keller, Mike Hecht, Urs Stauffer, and Tom Pike. Bean, now a Systems Engineer at JPL, worked on MER. Beware: there are now MERtians everywhere. A.J.S. Rayl (left); From the collection of the Phoenix Surface Stereo Imager team (right)