Penny Sackett, former director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, just outside Canberra, in the remains of the observatory, which was destroyed in a 2003 wildfire.
An artist’s conception of multiple robotic vehicles teaming up to return samples of rocks and soil, collected from the Martian surface by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover, to earth.
He arranged for artists to have access to astronauts, launchpads and more. “Their imaginations enable them to venture beyond a scientific explanation,” he once said.
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