NASA recently reported that the Curiosity rover on Mars detected unusually high levels of methane in the atmosphere, the latest in an intriguing series of detections of possible methane in the Martian atmosphere.
One of my (small) claims to fame is an article I published in 2000 while working at NASA Ames Research Center on “Oil and natural gas on Mars” (methane is natural gas).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228417575_Oil_and_natural_gas_on_Mars
The full text is available here: http://jmcgowan.com/oil_spie.pdf
(C) 2019 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.
About Me
John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).