• The ASU Center for Meteorite Studies houses more than 1,400 specimens, the largest collection held by any university in the world. Only London's British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., have more meteorites. The ASU collection includes five Martian meteorites.
• NASA's Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) consists of approximately 100 scientists from universities, research centers and organizations, industry and international partners for Mars exploration. The last two chairs of this elite brain trust have been ASU professors-Drs. Ronald Greeley and Jack Farmer.

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