Justin Maki

Justin Maki designs, develops, and operates imaging systems for planetary missions, with an emphasis on rover and lander camera systems. He has worked on several NASA planetary missions, including Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover (Spirit and Opportunity), Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity), Mars InSight, and Mars 2020 (Perseverance and Ingenuity). Justin is the Instrument Operations Team Chief and Imaging Scientist on the Mars 2020 mission and the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Mastcam-Z investigation. He is a Principal Systems Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder..