Spirit: Women on the Mars Exploration Rover team

January 01, 2004

Kneeling, left to right:

• Diana Blaney, deputy project scientist and miniature thermal emission spectrometer scientist;


• Cindy Oda, mission manager;


• Ashley Stroupe, rover planner;


• Julie Townsend, rover planner;


• Alicia Fallacaro Vaughan, tactical activity planner sequence integration engineer;


• Manju Kapoor, telecommunication subsystem engineer.

Standing, left to right:

• Jennifer Herman, power subsystem engineer;


• Cindy Alarcon-Rivera, information technology engineer;


• Brenda Franklin, hazard avoidance camera and navigation camera payload uplink lead;


• Caroline Chouinard, tactical activity planner trainee;


• Sharon Laubach, spacecraft engineering team lead;


• Pauline Hwang, tactical uplink lead trainee;


• Colette Lohr, tactical uplink lead;


• Tara Estlin, rover planner trainee;


• Dina ElDeeb, tactical downlink lead and systems engineer.
  

Remote participants not pictured:

• Ling Su, telecommunication subsystem engineer;


• Amy Knudson, payload uplink lead for the miniature thermal emission spectrometer;


• Aileen Yingst, microscopic imager payload uplink lead;


• Elaina McCartney, payload uplink lead for the panoramic camera;


• Mariek Schmidt, alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer and Moessbauer spectrometer scientist;


• Barbara Cohen, chair of the science operations working group;


• Wendy Calvin, documentarian;


• Emily Dean, keeper of the plan;


• Joannah Metz, long-term planning lead;


• Nicole Spanovich, opeations lead for atmospheric sciences;


• Alian Wang, mineralogy and chemistry lead;


• Kim Lichtenberg, physical properties scientist;


• Zsarina Bulchand, mission data operations lead;


• Amy Chen, image processing lead.