Jim Bell (http://jimbell.sese.asu.edu and @Jim_Bell) is a professor in the School of Earth & Space Exploration at Arizona State University and the Director of ASU's campus-wide Space Technology and Science, or "NewSpace", Initiative. He is an active astronomer and planetary scientist who has been involved in solar system exploration using the Hubble Space Telescope, Mars rovers, the Voyager missions, and orbiters sent to Mars, the Moon, and several asteroids. His research focuses on the geology.