James B Garvin served as NASAs Chief Scientist from October 2004 to September 2005 and is known for his foundational work in NASAs Mars explorational programs Garvin arrived at the Goddard Space Flight Center since 1984 where he first served as a staff scientist developing remote sensing instrumentation and has been based there or at the nearby NASA headquarters in Washington DC since then His career has spanned disciplines as Earth system science Mars Exploration lunar exploration Venus asteroids and the outer planets He has been a coinvestigator on NASAs Mars Observer Mars Global Surveyor NEARShoemaker OSIRISREx Mars Curiosity Rover Canadas Radarsat and ESAs Envisat missions Garvin is the principal investigator of the DAVINCI mission Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases Chemistry and Imaging In 2021 it was selected as one of NASAs next Discovery Program missions for launch between 2028 and 2030 Description above from the Wikipedia article James B Garvin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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