Our guest is Dr. Meenakshi “Mini” Wadhwa, professor and the Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University (ASU). She's a planetary scientist and isotope cosmochemist interested in the time scales and processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Solar System and planets, and she was also a recent keynote speaker for the Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon). Beyond being an expert in planetary materials like meteorites, Dr. Wadhwa is also the Principal Scientist for NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program.