And lift off. As the countdown to Mars continues, the perseverance of humanity launching the next generation of robotic explorers to the Red Planet. On the rover team, we're actually doing a lot of work right now to try to prepare for landing, because we're under a lot of pressure to do a lot with this rover. We're trying to make a plan for where we're going to go in the crater, and what we think we want to sample, and where we want to go look for signs of ancient life, as well as understand other geological processes on Mars. Looking at the mineralogy and geochemistry and the source regions might help shed light on that as well. So the way we run the rover is, you know, we basically have a huge all-day meeting with the entire science team, and put together a big plan for the rover's going to do on the next day. And so that's great opportunity for both, you know, me and my students to get involved with planning what the rover does day to day. I'm from Portland, Oregon. I grew up in the forests of the Northwest with volcanoes all around, that's how I got interested in geology. When I was a little girl, I loved space, I loved rocks, I was always collecting rocks. But you know, when I was a little girl, we didn't have rovers on Mars yet. I actually didn't know that I wanted to work with NASA and work in space until after I was in college. I majored in physics, which I love because physics explains the world around us in a really fundamental way. But when I start thinking about what I wanted to do from my career, you know, physics, what was really interesting, it didn't really capture my imagination quite as much as space and geology both. And geology, I absolutely love because it explains how the world around us came to be. Then I didn't really get into planetary science until the Mars exploration rovers landed in 2003. And just seeing those images come back from the surface was just absolutely incredible and that's what inspired me to pursue planetary science. A place we're going on Mars, no human eyes have ever seen before. And we'll be able to see them through robot eyes. It's really the next best thing to go in there yourself and exploring a new planet as an astronaut. I'm really excited to explore a new place on Mars and learn totally new things about the origin of our solar system and Mars. you