Mastcam-Z

Sydney Larriva

Arizona State University

Sydney received her bachelor’s in Biological Sciences from Arizona State University in 2022, but has always had a passion for planetary science and space exploration. She hopes to one day be able to combine her respective interests in biology and planetary sciences to study the habitability of Mars and the future of human space exploration. During her undergraduate career, Sydney worked as a Student Research Analyst for Mastcam-Z, specializing in assisting in PDS archival releases for the Bell Research Group as well as working Operations for the Artemis 1 Cubesat Mission LunaH-Map for Dr. Craig Hardgrove. After graduation, she accepted the position of Mastcam-Z’s Data Archivist in January of 2023.