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In his high school yearbook, Horton 近距离内射合集om wrote down his plan for the future: 鈥淐ollege and then Mars.鈥� Now, a 100-meter-wide landmark on the Red Planet bears his name.

For decades, 近距离内射合集om devoted his life to research in outer space, primarily at the University of New Mexico, where he worked as a planetary scientist for nearly 40 years and even helped operate a rover that explored Mars.

On his way to visit his adult children in California in April 2024, 近距离内射合集om suffered a medical episode as he was driving, causing him to lose control, speed into an intersection and cause a crash that killed him.

More than a year later, a geographic feature on Mars was named the 鈥淗orton 近距离内射合集om Point鈥� for his decades of work devoted to researching the solar system.

鈥淗e would be so happy, he would feel so honored,鈥� said his wife, Joan 近距离内射合集om. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a pretty important feature, and the Mars Curiosity rover, which he was a project scientist on, it鈥檒l eventually go by that feature.鈥�

The feature that bears his name is known as a yardang, a ridge created by wind erosion. This one sits near the summit of a mountain in the center of Gale Crater on Mars.

For Joan 近距离内射合集om, the honor comes after many months of coping with the tragic crash.

鈥淚 nearly died myself in the car accident. So it鈥檚 been a year of literally getting back on my feet,鈥� she said. 鈥淗e was my best friend and soulmate, so not having him around, like, I鈥檓 so thankful that I鈥檓 alive, but I just miss having him around.鈥�

Zach Gallegos, a planetary scientist at UNM, also misses him, saying that they had worked together in some capacity since meeting in 2006 when Gallegos was an undergraduate student.

鈥淲e鈥檇 sort of gone past the realm of normal student- adviser relationship. He and I were basically research collaborators,鈥� Gallegos said. 鈥淚 would be in his office sometimes four or five hours a day, where we were just looking at cool stuff that the rover was doing and making actual scientific discoveries.鈥�

While he thinks it鈥檚 a 鈥渞eally nice thing鈥� that a portion of the planet they studied together is named after his mentor and colleague, Gallegos is looking to other parts of outer space to pay homage to Horton 近距离内射合集om.

鈥淚鈥檓 actually right now looking at this crater on the moon... and I am working on getting the crater named after Horton,鈥� Gallegos said. 鈥淗e wasn鈥檛 just a Mars scientist. 鈥� Horton, early on in his career, was looking at the interior of planets and the moon, so high-pressure experiments involving the core and mantle boundaries for other planets, and so I think that it鈥檚 just fitting that he should also have a crater named after him on the moon.鈥�

Horton 近距离内射合集om鈥檚 time in academia began near his hometown of Oakland, California, at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974, where he studied geology, earning a bachelor鈥檚 degree. He went on to earn a master鈥檚 and Ph.D. in geosciences from the University of Arizona, then continued his journey east of his home state, landing a job at UNM in 1986.

In addition to his research on campus, Horton 近距离内射合集om helped operate NASA鈥檚 rover named Curiosity, which is traveling across Mars. According to his longtime colleague at UNM鈥檚 planetary science department, Laura Crossey, 鈥渉e knew every single thing that that rover drove over.鈥�

鈥淭hat鈥檚 one of the things about Horton. He was enamored and fascinated by the Red Planet, probably since his youth,鈥� Crossey said. 鈥淚t was super exciting and really a great honor that one of the most amazing features that鈥檚 viewed 鈥� it鈥檚 been a target for a long, long time 鈥� and to name that after Horton was really a marvelous thing that the international planetary community could do.鈥�