Janice Bishop is a planetary scientist known for her research into the minerals found on Mars.
[1] She earned her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1994 and then was a postdoctoral associate at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin until 1997.
[1] Starting in 2015 she joined the Science Council at the SETI Institute and is a contractor at the NASA Ames Research Center.
[10] Using data from instruments on the Curiosity rover, Bishop and colleagues found presence of glauconitic clays which only form in bodies of water that remain still for long periods of time.
[11][12] In 2021, Bishop determined that dark streaks on Mars, called recurring slope lineae, can be the result of the interactions of sulfates and chlorine salts that absorb water, a condition that leads to landslides.