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He lives in Tempe, AZ..
He has written numerous books, most recently, Hubble Legacy .
He has appeared on The Today Show , CNN, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, and the History Channel.
Bell was president of the Planetary Society from 2008-20 and received the 2011 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society.
He has been heavily involved in many NASA robotic Space Exploration missions, including the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Mars Pathfinder, Mars Rovers ( Spirit, Opportunity , and--ongoing, Curiosity and Perseverance ), the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Psyche asteroid orbiter.
Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, an adjunct professor in astronomy at Cornell University, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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