UMass Grad is "Rock Czar" on NASA's Mars Pathfinder Mission
University of Massachusetts AmherstA recently graduated geologist is one of the two scientists with University of Massachusetts degress who are working on NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission. Nathan Bridges earned his doctorate in geology this past April, before being hired by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for a postdoctoral position.