Roger Tanner

Roger Tanner, Chief engineer on the cameras. On StarNet: Find more Phoenix Mars Mission coverage including photo galleries and a video from the Science Operations Center in Tucson at azstarnet.com/science.
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"They look great," said Roger Tanner, the chief engineer on the cameras.He helped to build the very cameras that are now sitting on Mars, giving humanity a look at what lies millions and millions of miles beyond our blue skies.

Roger Tanner, the chief engineer for the lander's main camera, also was relieved.Tanner, who oversaw the design of the camera, hoped to be in the room with scientists as they reviewed the pictures sent back, as they are likely to be loaded with surprising new scientific information."I want to them to see something that they don't understand," he said.

Roger Tanner, chief engineer for cameras on the spacecraft and a senior engineer at the University of Arizona lab, said Spectrum Thin Films was one of the few companies in the bidding process that seemed excited about the project.

"Not many companies were interested in such small quantities of lenses and the small sizes, about 7 to 8 millimeters in diameter," Tanner said.

Tanner, Roger

Roger Tanner

Roger Tanner

Engineer