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My research focuses on wind and how wind
has changed the surface of Mars

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and one of the really exciting things about the
landing area is that wind has altered

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and eroded the surface in Jezero crater
for billions and millions of years so

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for my research I'm really excited to
see what the rover finds and really

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study and look at how wind has changed
the surface over really long timescales.

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For my research one of the things that
makes Mars particularly special is that

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wind is really dominating the surface of
Mars and we have wind on earth but we

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also have glaciers and water and those
things act much faster so it's really

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hard to tell exactly what wind is doing
on earth because it gets overprinted and

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kind of erased really quickly so the
nice thing about Mars is we can use the

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rover to study what happens when you
just kind of let wind go and let wind

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do its thing
for billions of billions of years so the

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rover is going to encounter all of these
things that have been carved by wind and