ARES Team members posing with our full-scale drop-test vehicle.

Blending the leading disciplinary specialists with cross-discipline pioneers, ARES will revolutionize our understanding of the nature and variability of the Mars atmosphere, surface and interior.

• Dr. Joel Levine, PI, NASA LaRC
• Dr. Diana Blaney, Co-I and Project Scientist, JPL
• Dr. Mario Acuna, Co-I, NASA GSFC
• Dr. John Connerney, Co-I, NASA GSFC
• Dr. Rick Elphic, Co-I, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Dr. Ronald Greeley, Co-I, Arizona State University
• Dr. James Head, Co-I, Brown University
• Dr. Paul Mahaffy, Co-I, NASA GSFC
• Dr. Christopher McKay, Co-I, NASA ARC
• Dr. Christophe Sotin, Co-I, Nantes University, France
• Dr. Steve Squyres, Co-I, Cornell University
• Dr. Michael E. Summers, Co-I, George Mason University

• NASA Langley Research Center
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Lockheed Martin Astronautics
• Aurora Flight Sciences
• Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Malin Space Science Systems
• University of Texas, Dallas

High altitude flight test team posing with the 50% scale airplane after the high altitude flight