Joy A. Crisp is a planetary geologist specializing in Mars geology. She is noted for her work on NASA missions to Mars, including the Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Science Laboratory.''

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"Dr. Joy Crisp, Project Scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission"
Retrieved on May 27, 2013.

Early life and education

Crisp was born in Colorado Springs, CO. She earned a bachelor's degree in geology from

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in 1979, and both a Master's (1981) and a PhD (1984) from Princeton University. Subsequently, Crisp was a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA for more than two years. Her studies involved investigating rocks from the

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under conditions similar to those within volcanoes.

Career

Crisp has been a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1989. She has been a principal scientist there since 2004. Crisp has worked on numerous projects and NASA missions, including the Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, and Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).Amos, Jonathan
"Nasa's Curiosity rover 'sniffs' Martian air"
'' BBC'', September 6, 2012. Retrieved on May 27, 2013. She is the deputy project scientist for the MSL ''Curiosity'' rover mission.

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