Michael C. Malin
Geologist, Organization founder
1950 –
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Who is Michael C. Malin?
Michael C. Malin is an American astronomer, space-scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the Exploration of Mars.
Malin designed and ran the orbiting Mars camera which took more than 212,000 high-resolution photos of Mars over a nine-year period. In late 2006, Malin and Kenneth Edgett announced photographic evidence which strongly suggested water was flowing on Mars in the present day.
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- Born
- 1950
United States of America - Also known as
- Michael Malin
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- California Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Malin Space Science Systems
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on July 23, 2013
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