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Personally, most of my research isn't
necessarily directly related to the

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exploration that the Mars 2020
Perseverance rover is going to be doing.

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I mostly focus on exoplanets, planets
around other stars, you know, far beyond

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Mars or any other planet in our solar
system. But, with that said, some of the

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research I did earlier in my academic
career focused on subterranean

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environments on Mars, or
environments under the ice cap of Mars

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specifically looking at: could these
environments potentially have liquid

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water and maybe even life up to the
present day? And, one of the instruments

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on the Mars 2020 rover RIMFAX is a
ground-penetrating radar array that's

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specifically going to measure and look
for these sorts of wet, subterranean

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environments and I think that's really
exciting!

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Personally, what I think would probably
be the most exciting discovery

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would be something that comes out of one of the other instruments, SHERLOC, which is a Raman spectroscopy

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instrument and then essentially what you
can use it to do is detect and identify

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a whole wide range of chemical compounds
including potentially organic ones so I

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think the most exciting thing that could
potentially come out would be

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identification of something like say DNA
or chlorophyll something that's really