Patrick Michel

That's partly due to the fact that those two missions were overlapping, so I couldn't be project manager of both.

And now for EDIFIX, I'm one of two rover PIs or lead scientists together with my counterpart in France, who is Patrick Michel.

Okay, and very briefly, MMX has a long history.

Can you just summarize when it started and it's going to be launched in October? Well, it

These impactors brought the water that fills our oceans and the organic molecules that form the building blocks of life.

Let's look at the insight from Patrick Michel, the French astrophysicist working on the IDFix rover.

He pointed out that if Phobos and Deimos are indeed remnants of these early delivery systems, they hold the absolute clues to the transport of materials that were vital for the emergence of life on rocky planets.

We are essentially tracing the ancient shipping routes of the solar system.