Here's a look at who's who at Cornell on the Mars Athena program staff

Steven Squyres, professor of astronomy, NASA's principal investigator carrying overall responsibility for the Athena science packages to be carried by the two Mars rovers: He supervises the international team that developed and built all of the scientific instruments on the rovers. He will lead rover science operations taking place on the Martian surface.

James Bell, assistant professor of astronomy, is lead researcher for the high-resolution stereo Pancams, or panoramic cameras, carried by both rovers: He will supervise the processing of the high-resolution images the cameras will send. Using these images, he will analyze Martian surface geology.

Harry Stewart, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Athena collaborator: He will analyze the physical properties of Martian soils.

Robert J. Sullivan Jr., senior research associate, Athena collaborator: He will examine the physical properties of soils and the distribution of different soil units around the landing site, as well as other aspects of surface geology. He also will be in charge of sending commands to the Pancams and of receiving data both from the panoramic cameras and the microscopic imagers on the rovers.

Elaina McCartney, research support specialist, mission planner for Athena and uplink lead for the Pancams: She will help plan and enter instructions for the rovers and their panoramic cameras.

Jon Proton, research support specialist, mission planner for Athena and uplink lead for the Pancams: He will help plan and enter instructions for the rovers and their panoramic cameras.

Heather Arneson, research support specialist, Athena collaborator and Pancam uplink lead and downlink analyst: She will help create the instructions, or sequences, for the rovers, as well as process information sent from them.

Miles Johnson, research support specialist, Athena collaborator and Pancam payload uplink lead and payload downlink analyst: He will help create instructions for the rovers, as well as process information from them.

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, research support specialist, Athena collaborator and Pancam payload downlink lead: He will help process images from the rovers.

Zoe Learner, graduate student, Athena collaborator and Science Operations Working Group documentarian: She will record initial findings and rover activity requests during Athena science team meetings.

Jason Soderblom, graduate student, Athena collaborator and Pancam payload downlink lead: He will help process images from the rovers.

Jonathan Joseph, program analyst for Pancam software: He is in charge of the development of software tools that will be used to analyze images sent from the rovers.

Don Banfield, senior research associate, works with the miniature thermal emission spectrometer, or Mini-TES, on the rovers: He studies the temperature structure of the boundary layer of the Martian atmosphere.