Chris McKay

McKay, 2005

Christopher P. McKay (born before 1982) is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center . He studies the atmospheres of planets , astrobiology and terraforming .

Life

McKay received his PhD in astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982 and his bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University .

McKay conducted extensive research into planetary atmospheres, especially Saturn's moons Titan and Mars , and into the origin and development of life . He was involved in the design of Cassini-Huygens , the Mars Phoenix lander and the Mars Science Laboratory . In addition, he did research in the area of extremophiles in places such as Death Valley , the Atacama Desert , Axel Heiberg Island and the ice-covered lakes of Antarctica .

In addition to his professional work, Christopher McKay is a director of the Planetary Society and also works for the Mars Society and as a consultant to Mars One . He has given extensive lectures and written about space exploration and terraforming .

Web links

• NASA biography ( Memento from August 29, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )
• Planetary Society biography ( Memento from February 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Video of Chris McKay on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, “Are We Bound for Space?” Panel discussion with Chris Hadfield , Lawrence Krauss , Donna Shirley , Karl Schroeder and Robert D. Richards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ralph D. Lorenz, Christopher P. McKay, Jonathan I. Lunine: Photochemically Driven Collapse of Titan's Atmosphere . In: Science . tape 275 , no. 5300 , January 31, 1997, p. 642-644 , doi : 10.1126 / science.275.5300.642 .
2. ↑ Christopher P. McKay, William J. Borucki: Organic Synthesis in Experimental Impact Shocks . In: Science . tape 276 , no. 5311 , March 18, 1997, p. 390-392 , doi : 10.1126 / science.276.5311.390 .
3. ↑ RM Maier, KP Drees, JW Neilson, DA Henderson, J. Quade, JL Betancourt, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, Fred A. Rainey, Christopher P. McKay: Microbial Life in the Atacama Desert . In: Science . tape 306 , no. 5700 , October 19, 2004, p. 1289c-1290 , doi : 10.1126 / science.306.5700.1289c .
4. ^ Robert H. Haynes, Christopher P. McKay: The implantation of life on Mars: Feasibility and motivation . In: Advances in Space Research . tape 12 , no. 4 , 1992, pp. 133-140 , doi : 10.1016 / 0273-1177 (92) 90167-V .
5. ↑ Christopher P. McKay, Margarita M. Marinova: The Physics, Biology, and Environmental Ethics of Making Mars Habitable . In: Astrobiology . tape 1 , no. 1 , March 2001, p. 89-109 , doi : 10.1089 / 153110701750137477 .
6. ↑ Margarita M. Marinova, Christopher P. McKay, Hirofumi Hashimoto: Radiative-convective model of warming Mars with artificial greenhouse gases . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . tape 110 , February 10, 2005, p. E03002 , doi : 10.1029 / 2004JE002306 .