You can also check out our presentation to MEPAG last fall for a visual summary at the links here:

But a key goal of this program is that it is "concurrent" with Mars Sample Return - to keep Mars science moving forward while we work on bringing samples back, so our job as a community will be to ensure that this critical program stays in the budget wedge.

We envision the missions working together in a "Braided River", where multiple small, low-cost missions work together to address larger outstanding Mars questions. It's possible that the first missions in this program could be selected by the end of this decade!

We aim to use Mars as a laboratory where we can not only explore records of how habitable terrestrial planets evolve over billions of years, but also how microbial life might be living on Mars today. The program would start with orbiters but build up to hard landers, helis, etc.

The program is called "Dynamic Mars: Investigating ancient and modern drivers of change on an active planet", and would use openly competed low-cost missions to make major discoveries in how the interior, surface, and atmosphere of Mars have evolved and are continuing to change.

Final report from our @TeamMarsScience organized Mars Concurrent Exploration Science Analysis Group (MCE-SAG) - we looked at how we can use small missions to explore Mars and inspired the new Mars exploration program proposed by @NASA! More details below

Congratulations to @KirteeRamo on completing her Geodata Science MS!! Kirtee worked on statistical analysis of Mastcam-Z data and is off to keep working on Mars 2020 at @stonybrooku!.

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Such a great group of planetary students, and I got to either advise or sit on the committee of all of them!! <3.

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I had a big cluster of PhD students start in 2018, and now they’re all graduating! Such mixed emotions this week, I’m so sad to see them go but so proud of how much they’ve done. Congratulations to DOCTORS Sinha, Rudolph, and Haber!! @spacemanjames1 @rudolpa

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