Sarah Milkovich is lead of Science Operations for the Mars 2020 rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[1] Here she became interested in astronomy watching TV specials about spacecraft of Nova and PBS, and during vacations in northern Minnesota.

[5][6] She moved to Brown University, where she earned a master's degree and PhD in planetary geology in 2005.

[10][11][12][13][14][15] HiRISE allowed Milkovich and scientists to take turns to choose where images were taken, and took suggestions from the public.

[17][18] Milkovich is the lead Science systems Engineer for Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars 2020 rover.