Roy Naor

Planetary Geologist

Roy Naor is a planetary geologist. He specializes in Geological Sciences and is pursuing graduate studies at the Weizmann Institute of Science, conducting research to characterize formation environments of minerals on Mars with the aim of explaining the mechanism and conditions of present and future findings from Mars rovers and spacecraft.

Roy is also alumnus of the International Space University's Space Studies Program conducted in the Summer of 2015 in partnership with NASA Glenn Research Center and Ohio University. He is also a space exploration educator, inspiring the next generation through analog simulations researching the Martian environment, he is part of a team launching a new youth program simulating astronauts training supported by the Israel Space agency and the Davidson Institute.

He is part of crew 173 at the Utah "Mars Desert Research Station", a simulated Mars exploration mission to conduct ISRU 3D printing of interlocking building blocks that can be assembled together in order to form a habitat structure that provides shelter and radiation shielding for astronauts.