Stony Brook University geology professors Joel Hurowitz and Scott McLennan have been working with NASA on Mars missions since 2003, are among a handful of Long Islanders who played critical roles in building Perseverance, NASA's most ambitious spacecraft to land on Mars' surface. Credit: Barry Sloan

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