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I’ve lived in Devon my whole life and I love it because I get to walk on Dartmoor and swim in the sea. I love playing netball even though sometimes it gets cold in the winter months! I play in goal defence (GD) which means I have to try and stop the other team from scoring 🏐 I also watch football – my favourite teams are Liverpool and Plymouth Arygle! ⚽️ I love listening to Taylor Swift, my favourite songs are ‘shake if off’ and ‘anti-hero’ 🎤

I use images of Mars to study the rocks on the surface. These rocks are billions of years old and tell us about what Mars was like billions of years ago! There are 3 types of rocks: igneous (volcanoes), sedimentary (oceans/lakes), and metamorphic (rocks that have been changed). The sedimentary rocks on Mars tell us about a time when there was water on Mars! This is so exciting because in places where we find water, we often find life! These old rivers and lakes on Mars are perfect places to send Mars rovers to see if they can search for evidence of life on Mars.

I start work in my home office at 7:30 with a cup of tea and some toast and check my emails. I work for 2 hours before going to the gym and taking a bubble bath 🛁  I look at images of Mars until lunch time, and maybe take my dog Bella for a walk. After lunch I continue with my research until 4pm when I different type of work starts. At 4pm I start work on NASA’s Curiosity rover mission because it is 8am in California and sometimes I have meetings later in the evening so I can talk to people in the USA. I usually finish my day in bed watching Netflix or reading a good book.